The Argosy Music Processor sets out to provide a wide range of
      music editing and printing facilities to users with limited
      resources and a small budget.  Users see a stave on the screen
      and enter notes directly using the PC keyboard. The programs are
      easy to use and do not require the user to wade through long-winded
      manuals or spend hours dragging notes across the screen with a
      mouse!

      The system runs on an IBM-compatible PC with just 512Kb RAM and
      a CGA display, running DOS 3.2 or above, but provides features
      often found only in products requiring AT-compatibles or more
      powerful computers.  A hard disk is desirable but not
      essential, and music can be input and edited using just the
      computer keyboard.  The printing function currently supports
      Epson-compatible dot-matrix and ink jet printers.

      Music is entered part-by-part and can be printed as separate
      parts or with parts combined to form a score or group of parts
      with up to 16 staves in a system.  The printing program aligns
      parts automatically and provides sensible note-spacing.  The
      system is not page-based and scores and parts spreading over
      many pages can be entered and printed easily.

      The Argosy Music Processor handles beams, slurs, chords,
      triplets, two-part writing, key- and time- signature changes,
      and there are many entry aids such as repeating bars and groups
      as well as sequences of similar intervals.  Sets of bars can be
      patched into parts, and the system even handles song words.
      Parts can also be transposed any interval up to a major ninth
      (up or down) and provision has been made for transposition of
      atonal pieces (i.e. which aren't in a key). Finally parts can be
      played through the PC's own speaker to check the accuracy of entry.

      Many music processor packages require the user to align the
      various parts of a score on screen usually using a mouse.  This
      can be very time consuming and, because the alignment on the
      Argosy Music Processor is automatic and the input of the notes
      is based on a simple, easily learned code (rather than being
      mouse based) music can be written on the Argosy Music Processor
      as quickly as writing by hand.  If the music contains repeated
      themes and phrases (as most music does) and full advantage is
      taken of the editing facilities, input can actually be FASTER
      than writing by hand!

      The system is available as shareware, and the shareware
      distribution provides all the entry capabilities and printing
      for an 8-pin printer.  Registration, which costs œ39.00, will
      bring you the current version including an improved printer
      program suitable for Epson-compatible 24-pin and Bubble-Jet
      printers.

      For further details contact W Turner, Staplehurst, Farrs Lane,
      Combe Down, Bath, Avon, U.K. BA2 5DU.  Send a stamped
      addressed envelope (A4 size) if you'd like samples of print out
      from a bubble jet printer.