I've been reading this thread with some degree of fascination. I figured there must be a simple solution to the problem of placing sheet music on your desktop of laptop computer and have the ability to scroll down the page without using your hands.

Placing the sheet music on the computer was a snap using in inexpensive flatbed scanner. Lots of options here, many of which don't require a lot of expensive hardware or software. The scanner is an HP Scanjet 4300-C which I picked up at Best Buy for $69. (I'm sure someone can find it cheaper on the Internet)

I scanned a page out of one of my fake books into Microsoft Word 2000, which took less than 30 seconds. The page display was then set to the screen width, allmost all of the toolbars were removed from the view at the top of the page to add more space, and the bottom bar is dragged below the screen so it too adds to the viewable area.

Now the trick was to scroll down the page without using my hands. Piece of cake! I placed a wireless, scrolling-wheel mouse on a rubber pad on the floor in the opposite direction it would normally be held in your hand. The pad held the mouse firmly in place, but if movement were a problem, you could easily velcro the mouse to a small plywood base with rubber nubs on the bottom to prevent slippage. Now, by resting my foot on the scrolling wheel, when I slide my foot forward, the music scrolls down the screen. It's that simple. Look Mom--no hands.

Now, if I could read sheet music this would be an even better tool. For those of you that can, problem solved.

BTW: The entire file was only 135 kb, which is extremely small. After opening Micrsoft Word, the document loaded in less than a second.

Cheers from an old man,

Gary