Wouldn’t it be nice for all us pianists (or any other instrumentalist for that matter) if sheet music were digitized onto a A4 flat white screen (in a similar vein to the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle), and we could simply place it where our sheet music currently goes. The advantages would be vast:

1. It could store possibly the entire classical (i.e. royalty free) collection for a particular instrument
2. It would be able to access and download any digitally available manuscript via WiFi (for instance, Amazon’s new Kindle device can do just this)
3. With machine listening technology, it would even be able to know when to change the page without the instrumentalist having to do this manually (that would probably be is biggest selling point)
4. You or your music teacher would be able to make scribblings or marks on the actual scores, and you’d be able to clear these marks if necessary (look at any aspiring pianist’s manuscripts and they’re practically drenched and unreadable with the teacher’s notes)
5. It would be able to play the piece for you in order for you to learn it without having to figure out the note-times and such (i.e. it would allow you to cheat)
6. If you were playing a piano, violent, etc concerto, it would be able to play the orchestral part whilst you play the piano (or other) part

In other words this invention would be a big success amongst musicians around the world.