Pretty much 100% of the rental parts from Lucks Music Library that have come across my stand over the last 38 years have been in physically terrible condition, rife with mistakes, missing important bits of information, and CRAMPED into half the page space needed to create a readable part. Add to this the awful, spidery manuscript that in many places is absolutely unreadable, and Luck's looks like a huge waste of money.
If all the orchestras around the US would stop renting from Luck's for just ONE SEASON and TELL THOSE HAT RACKS *WHY* THEY ARE BOYCOTTING THE COMPANY then *perhaps* some things might improve.
But for the time being, if you rent from Luck's Music Library you are taking a huge crap on the players in your ensemble. But, alas, the orchestra world is populated with weaklings who cannot budget money and who are largely out of touch with reality.
The solution is to DOCUMENT all player complaints about readability issues in every part. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM. Take photos. Send these in with a demand for a partial refund of the rental fee. If everyone would do this consistently then perhaps these jerkoffs would waddle off the golf course, sit down at a desktop computer, learn to use Finale, and then ENGRAVE THE ENTIRE LIBRARY so that all the millions of collected mistakes, unreadable (or MISSING) text expressions and asinine page turns could be corrected. Then all of this could be printed on paper that can stand many, many erasures (that would not be needed if there were not so many freaking mistakes in the parts — hint, hint) and that are not so dark with age that they are almost the same color as the ink. Also, I expect something that costs hundreds of dollars to rent to arrive on paper of a higher quality than that which is used to wipe oneself.
• Document the nonsense.
• Demand pro-rated refunds.
• Stop renting from them.
Just my opinion, after 38 years of having to cope with these sh¡tty parts, with occasional phone conversations with employees at "Luck's Attitude Central".
