I can only imagine how hard and time-consuming it was to create draft after draft with this typewriter back in the day.
My intuition is that drafts would be made by hand and the Musicwriter work would be done as transcription in preparation for printing…usually by someone else within an infrastructure of editors, publishers and printers.
Not that I wouldn’t bet some composers had their own Musicwriter, but the Musicwriter hails from the days of secretaries and typing pools.
Today people typeset their compositions because they can. The goalposts have moved in recent decades. For better or worse.
My intuition is that drafts would be made by hand and the Musicwriter work would be done as transcription in preparation for printing…usually by someone else within an infrastructure of editors, publishers and printers.
Not that I wouldn’t bet some composers had their own Musicwriter, but the Musicwriter hails from the days of secretaries and typing pools.
Today people typeset their compositions because they can. The goalposts have moved in recent decades. For better or worse.