What eventually led me here was that I started a website, 5 years ago, called Partitura Organum (http://partitura.org). On that website I publish newly typeset scores of (mostly) unknown organ music. I typeset the music from the original manuscript sources, available online as digital copies. The copyrights on these digital copies of manuscripts is pretty tight: no commercial activities allowed, and always ask for prior permission before publishing material based on these manuscripts.

The work I do for my website is a work of love for the music, and a bit out of principal as well. The music of Bach, Buxtehude, Franck, Mendelsohn, Reger, etcetc hardly needs promoting, as they are well known (at least in the community of organists). They are the pinnacle of the organ music literature. And because people look at the high summits of creative musical ability, they often forget that the slopes leading up to those pinnacles can be beautiful as well. There is a wealth of beautiful music, that is ignored because it was not composed by Bach of by Buxtehude. In quality it is often not much less than the music of these great masters. The 'litlle' masters are forgotten, though their music is not 'little' at all.

So I create new scores of the music of these forgotten masters and publish them on my website. Some of the compositions available there, are unique and not available elsewhere, not even commercially. I dare say that in the 5 years since I started this website, it has become a valuable resource for organists world wide.

Because of the licensing of the source material, and because it is my intention that this music should be available as widely as possible, all scores on my website are free for download.

I devote a lot of time and attention to the creation of these scores. Perhaps because I come from a family of printers and publishers, I will not publish anything that does not look good. Scores have one single purpose: they are meant to play music from, and should therefore be as readable as possible. And it takes time to not just enter the notes, but to create a readable page lay-out as well.

It would be nice if I could make a litlle money out of all this activity. Sadly, that's not possible without asking money for the scores, and that's precily the thing I don't want to do. And then, two years ago, I stumbled across Steem.

The potential to get rewarded for just posting, was appealing. Perhaps I could make a tiny little money from my publishing efforts by cross posting on Steem. And there you have it: I came here for the money.