Do you buy sheet music online? From where?

[StopThatClock]

If your DC (or you) are musical, do you buy sheet music online and if so, which website do you order from?
I am not musical in any way, shape or, form and am trying to navigate buying some music for DD.
Have I understood correctly, that if I buy the pdf (as most of it seems to be) then I can print this out? Multiple times? It says there is also an app, is it really practical to play from a screen? DD often scribbles in her book, can you annotate the music in an app?
If I order the music which says it is instrument + piano then is the music for each instrument separate or will it be like on the preview with the instrument line above the piano two?

My music teacher emails music to me and I open it in Forscore, which is a one off £20 payment. I'm pretty sure it's an apple only app. But yes you can anotate the music. It works better on a large screen - I struggle to read the music on my iPad mini.

I buy it in book form, usually secondhand from Amazon or sometimes specialist music book sites. That’s way, the DC aren’t using a screen and getting distracted by other things they could do. And it’s often pretty cheap, and in good secondhand condition.

If you’re not sure, can you ask your dd’s music teacher to send you a link to the right thing?

I get some from musicroom.com

Usually for piano plus an instrument you get 2 pieces. One for the instrument and one for the piano part often with the instrument part written above it so you can see how they fit together

My DD hates playing from a screen so I either buy it digitally and print it (from a pdf) or in book form. I use Blackwells, Musicroom, the ABRSM shop or any other supplier if I’ve googled and found the requisite piece.

If it’s for an orchestra it’s usually on imslp but very old scans so can be hard to read!

I definitely wouldn’t play from a screen but younger people might be fine with it (I’m in my 40s……I much prefer print).

I buy hard copy music but I only play classical, and I like to add my own fingering notations and other notes when I’m working on something new. I’m not sure if you can get everything you want in hard copy if it’s modern stuff you’re after.

Secondhand bookshops often have classical sheet music.

When I took up the piano again (after a many-decades break) I bought a lot of music 2nd hand, mostly from Amazon, and mostly books - either old ABRSM exam pieces or those specified in their ‘alternative pieces’.

But also some booklets of just one piece I wanted to tackle.
All much cheaper 2nd hand.

I would hate to play from a screen! Besides which, you need to find the optimum fingering (not necessarily the specified one - if it is) and mark it with pencil so that you use it from the start.