Note4Piano.com

Dear Net Surfers,

Dear musicians, I wish you the welcome on www.note4piano.com, musical bookshop online, and last creation of the Editions Bourgès R.

My adventure with the “Net” began in 1999, with the creation of the www.ebr.com.fr site. At that time, it was only a question of creating a catalogue with visual and sound effects for my Editions. Very quickly, the request of my visitors led me to develop the direct and protected sale (2001).

My initiative was criticized at that time (I wasn't authorized to present the website at the Salon de la Musique de Paris, ...), but nowadays all the editors have a website.

After the success of the www.ebr.com.fr site, the editions, in 2004, proposed 2 other spaces: www.yvonne-sanchez.com (the official website of the Czech singer Yvonne Sanchez) and www.lapetiteboutiquederemi.com (the website of the youth category of the Editions).

Pre-empting the evolution of the world of the partition and a possible crisis, it became essential for me, to create a musical bookshop online. As for the world of the book (increase in the total sales, reduction in the number of bookshops in spite of the law Lang) the partition of music is likely to know the monopoly (as well on the level creation as its marketing) of the Majors who hold a large part of works and prepare their digitalization, or of some financial groups on the “Net” (the equivalent of Amazon/Fnac).
To launch www.note4piano.com, I helped myself with a few hot lines:

- gather an experienced team and also constituted by musicians, with a good knowledge of the world of the edition and its specificities.
- To select the works and other articles once there are referenced, by their contents and their availability: to put strait online the computer files of the catalogues of the editors is easy (we have 250.000 approximately references). But these files are still incomplete and contain a number of inalienable, obsolete sheet music or of bad quality.
- To only offer with posting the products with a complete description and content.
- To make all the references accessible by our search engine. A large work has been done for that, after we compared the already preexisting engines.
- To respect the prices (“advised public prices”) of the editors.
- To be the most competitive on the carriage costs, competitiveness possible by synergy with the logistics of the Editions.
- To propose cultural works, CD’s, DVD’s and other articles around the sheet music.

It's also important to me to add that the sheet music suggested online were entirely re-engraved, with the same quality and the same care granted to those of my editions: they are originals, and not scanned sheet music. I remain, with my team, open to any of your remarks, and thank you by advance for the interest you will have for our work.

I hope this space will become yours, please receive my most musical greetings.

Patrice Bourgès.