About
Hugh Sung
Hugh Sung is a classical collaborative pianist. That’s polite-speak for an “accompanist” = the pianist whose job it is to support and make the people he plays with sound better than him. Hugh is also a tech geek with a fetish for all things shiny, smart, and mobile. The airport security officer in Nashville thought he was a geek for merely having 2 laptops – he didn’t realize that there were 4 iPads tucked away in his backpack!
Hugh loves to explore ways in which technology can enhance art, and vice versa. Being a “paperless pianist” is one example of this kind of merging of brain halves. Since the stuff Hugh has been cramming into his cranial is just too good to keep to himself, he loves to share what he’s learned in hopes of populating the world with more people who love Firefly (Browncoats forever!) and classical music (Bach forever!)
Thanks for coming along for the ride!
Going Digital for Musicians 
I’m a church pianist. I’m ready to buy an iPad and scan my existing music into PDFs and put in the iPad. Plus going forward I will buy music in digital format. I want the new iPad air because of its light weight. How many gigabytes do I truly need for music? That will be its main purpose in life – being my music library. No gaming or anything. I don’t want to buy more GBs than I need but I don’t want to undersize either. I’ve bookmarked your site. Great info!
You should be fine with 16 GB, but always try to get the largest size possible. And when you scan your music, make sure you scan in Black and White at no more than 300 dpi to ensure that your scanned files aren’t too big.
For surface (window RT), do you have any suggestion on any music-reading app that works similar to “forScore”? (Where the page turn could be done by a tap with fingertip). Thanks so much.
Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of app options for Surface RT users, and there’s nothing like forScore available for it yet. I believe most of the PDF reader apps, including the default one for the Surface RT, will turn pages with the tap of a finger (or the press of an AirTurn page turning pedal).