I’m working completely alone on this, so to be honest with you: I got a lot of AI help. Basically the pipeline for getting a public domain piece onto my website is downloading a well scanned score from a library like IMSLP, then a couple of Claude subagents read through it bar by bar and write the tuba part from it. A script checks for clashes with the piano accompaniment and a separate Claude session proofreads the result against the scan. Then I play it through myself, look through the sheet music and double check weird passages with other sources on the internet. Most of the time there are maybe 2 errors left in a big piece like the Can-Can, so the subagents already do a great job!
The sheet music player is rendered by alphaTab. It had some bugs that I patched, at some point I want to send them the fixes so they can fix them in alphaTab itself too. I also got a recording feature, there I had a big problem with the piano accompaniment coming through the speaker and tried to subtract it from the recording, but it still doesn’t work too well sadly. Lately I rewrote my page turn logic to do half page turns, cause every musician knows how frustrating it is to not see the next notes until the page turns.
My big vision is a bit unrealistic, but I want to somehow host all public domain pieces there are for free for all instruments, so people don’t have to pay $20 anymore for some Danse macabre euphonium arrangement for example... Would love to know from the musicians here whether you like my current arrangements and if you have ideas for other pain points I can try to fix for free with my website?
Thanks!