Category Archives: General

In recent years, publishers have deployed many systems to help reduce the associated costs with offering a hire/rental music service, but there is one approach providing great rewards for both distributors and their customers. The area of saving?  A return … Continue reading →

Keeping up to date with HLMSW is important with important (and not so important) changes happening every day.  For the most part BTMI looks after your system on your behalf, providing updates when they are available according to your schedule. Because … Continue reading →

Peter Grimshaw and Ulrich Steffen Eck will be flying the BTMI and Zinfonia flags at this year’s Musikmesse 2016 which kicks off on Thursday April 7. If you are attending the event and would like to see us, please contact … Continue reading →

In HLMSW v8.00 (Build 2.0) or later we have created a new option to assist in the export of HLMSW Performances for other systems (like web calendars) or as the basis of performance society reports. Working out what should or … Continue reading →

HLMSW makes a brief appearance in the current Google Doodle: http://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-ludwig-van-beethovens-245th-year (Thanks Bevis!)

When the paper The “Universal Instrumentation Code”: Bringing Consistency to Orchestral Instrumentation Information by Mark Carroll, Peter Grimshaw and James Koehne (Music Reference Services Quarterly (Volume 17, Issue 1, 2014) was published last year, the UIC was just a theory. Now that it is in … Continue reading →

Can you guess what this QR Code represents? This is one way that you can distribute a UIC that describes all of the instrumental forces required in a symphonic work. With the appropriate software, the code could be translated to: 2[1/Picc.2] 2 … Continue reading →

Last week BTMI spent a very busy but rewarding week in Stockholm working with the wonderful team at Gehrmans Musikförlag introducing them to the world of HLMSW and Zinfonia. One aspect of this install that was new for us all was … Continue reading →

Next week will see the BTMI team in Stockholm, Sweden to install the HLMSW and Zinfonia systems for the prestigious Scandinavian publishing house Gehrmans Musikförlag. This is an exciting installation for us because it marks the FIRST site to be using the very … Continue reading →