I've worked a bit on these images and found a few problems, both of which are made worse by poor originals:

1. The JPG's are at 72 pixels per inch. This is only monitor-level quality, not suitable for printing. It's common to scan an image at twice the resolution of its intended use, so the ones back at the library might actually be better, just compressed for faster transmission. Note - a 150ppi image would be 4 times as large.

2. Music pages themselves are done in greyscale or color instead of monochrome. This is why poorly printed characters get fuzzy and the background is full of grey blotches. Monochrome would produce a sharper (and smaller) image.

Using Adobe Photoshop or equivalent, an experienced editor can clean out the background haze and sharpen the characters (somewhat), but it's labor-intensive and still limited to 72 ppi.

If I can figure out a quickie procedure to do this, I'll put it on the forum - maybe offer to convert a few for you.

For the first person to respond, I'll work on your selected song (4 pgs max, please) and post the before and after images on my web page.

......Tiger