Phil’s manuscripts now scanned to PDF
Today we have added all parts scanned as PDFs to Delta Borderline, Half Life & No Holds Barred. Find them in OPUS.
Back in November 2022 I began the task of digitising Phil’s manuscripts which are held in the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire‘s archives, overseen by the keeper of the Archives Dr Pedro Cravinho. The idea was to make Phil’s band parts available to the students of the Conservatoire and those of you who use the philmillerthelegacy.com site, by scanning these parts and saving them to PDFs. Every few months I travelled up to Birmingham to return the folders I had borrowed and pick up some new ones. I bought an A3 scanner to do this work and figured I could complete the task in a year. In the end it took one year and three months but I have finally finished them.
There were just under 90 folders containing 3326 pages of manuscript, divided into 77 compositions, ending up with 1143 merged PDFs
Kyle is busy adding these PDFs to the OPUS pages so you will see them as fast as he can put them up. I will announce them on the home page as we put them up.
I will be returning the final folders when I go back to The RBC for the Phil Miller Guitar Prize on the 29th of this month where the newly formed Phil Miller Legacy Band has it’s debut performance.
HERM
25.02.24