Good staff paper?

[Joe_Campbell]

I want to get some of this, mainly because I think it would be a terrible habit to start composing under the limitations of a piece of software, and I plan on writing at the piano.

Any suggestions for good sources of relatively inexpensive staff paper?

[karlhenning]

I want to get some of this, mainly because I think it would be a terrible habit to start composing under the limitations of a piece of software, and I plan on writing at the piano.

Any suggestions for good sources of relatively inexpensive staff paper?

I generally make twenty-odd photocopies of letter-size twelve-staff paper, at a time.

[Gustav]

Any suggestions for good sources of relatively inexpensive staff paper?

blank piece of paper + ruler + pen

[karlhenning]

blank piece of paper + ruler + pen

Oh, then your time cannot be worth very much 

[lukeottevanger]

I want to get some of this, mainly because I think it would be a terrible habit to start composing under the limitations of a piece of software, and I plan on writing at the piano.

Commendable attitude! And definitely the right one. Notation software can be a terrible thing - inhibiting, normalising, stultifying - if one isn't absolutely certain of how one would write the thing using paper and pen.

If you want to be extreme, copy Janacek's procedure with orchestral scores - he wrote the paper by hand, so as not to be tempted to write for more instruments than he really needed!

Any suggestions for good sources of relatively inexpensive staff paper?

Well, you could use notation software to print out blank sheets. Or you could marry/become a classroom music teacher (I did both) and appropriate stacks of free ms paper at every opportunity (as I do). 

[karlhenning]

Commendable attitude! And definitely the right one. Notation software can be a terrible thing - inhibiting, normalising, stultifying - if one isn't absolutely certain of how one would write the thing using paper and pen.

Not that Luke was hanging fire, but I agree heartily.

[Joe_Campbell]

Thanks, Luke, Karl, Walter! I guess the answer was a lot simpler than I anticipated. I do have a nice printer, after all...

[Joe_Campbell]

Oh..and Luke, YHM.

[rappy]

Try this: http://www.musikwissenschaften.de/service/nb/

[Joe_Campbell]

Hey...that's an awesome site! Almost exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

[rappy]

Great! 

[Szykneij]

Here's another option:

http://people.virginia.edu/~pdr4h/musicpaper/

[(poco) Sforzando]

Here's another option:

http://people.virginia.edu/~pdr4h/musicpaper/

That's a good one. I was going to suggest using MS Paint and drawing 5 equidistant horizontal lines, and then just cutting and pasting them. Voila, instant music paper. And it won't cost you a dime to create the file.