# Cleanup needs your help **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815 "2003-02-22T18:48:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/1 "2003-02-22T18:48:13Z")
Does anyone know of a simple composition program where you can compose your own music on a staff, and play it back, and print it? Specifically, I’m looking for alto sax/trumpet. ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/2 "2003-02-22T18:55:35Z")
Cleanup needs your immediate help. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/3 "2003-02-22T18:59:17Z")
[This](http://www.allaboutpianos.com/notation.html) looks pretty neat. Not a bad price, either. ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/4 "2003-02-22T19:17:44Z")
Thanks! I’m downloading the demo version. ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/5 "2003-02-22T19:26:06Z")
Hmm. InstallShield seems to be intent on not letting me install this thing… Any other programs/downloads? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/6 "2003-02-22T19:28:39Z")
Hmmm…I wonder why not? Well, let me see what else I can dig up. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/7 "2003-02-22T19:32:59Z")
There’s a lot of good stuff [here.](http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/win95/NOTATION/) And [this one](http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ScoreWriterWin/) looks particularly promising. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/8 "2003-02-22T20:02:09Z")
God, I used to have a really cool program for this. But I forget what it was called, and it was on an old computer. It was quite pricey though, a friend, um, gave me a copy of it. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Anyway, it was neat, you could compose as many parts as you want, and play them together or seperately. I don’t think you could find something that nice as shareware. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/9 "2003-02-22T20:18:29Z")
I use a little program called MusicWrite+. There’s a cheap version, which allows you to write music and play it back using a variety of instruments, including alto sax and trumpet. It’s got some annoyances, which I assume the more expensive version doesn’t have. I have the cheap version, and it’s worth the price. CJ ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/10 "2003-02-22T20:41:10Z")
MarioPaint! ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/11 "2003-02-22T21:34:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*I use a little program called MusicWrite+. There’s a cheap version, which allows you to write music and play it back using a variety of instruments, including alto sax and trumpet. It’s got some annoyances, which I assume the more expensive version doesn’t have. I have the cheap version, and it’s worth the price. > > CJ \*\* I downloaded that… demo version. Kept crashing. ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/12 "2003-02-22T21:37:35Z")
I’ll try the GenieSoft Score Writer, and get back to you later. Thanks, Q.E.D.! Damn. Download doesn’t work. This is angering me… lemme go ferret around feverently. ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleanup-needs-your-help/156815/13 "2003-02-22T21:56:09Z")
Music Works Personal works great… only thing is… I can’t change it to Alto… only Piano. :mad: But I think this’ll work…