CHO Publishing

CHO Publishing (卓著出版社), commonly shortened to 卓著, is a Taiwanese music publisher founded in Kaohsiung in 1993 by the brothers Zhuo Jinyan and Zhuo Jinhan. It is a specialist publisher of printed music and songbooks rather than a general trade house, and its catalogue is organized around five main categories: numbered musical notation (簡譜), staff notation (五線譜), ukulele four-string tablature (烏克麗麗四弦譜), guitar six-string tablature (吉他六弦譜), and artist-creation photo songbooks (藝人創作寫真樂譜書). The company operates a dedicated music-information website, 卓著音樂資訊網 (musicbook.com.tw), which functions as both a catalogue and a storefront. The site offers a song-index search (曲目查詢), online sheet music (線上樂譜), recommended songs (推薦歌曲), purchasing guides (如何購書), and online ordering (網路購書), and it also links to the publisher's Facebook page. A simplified-Chinese switch and a single-song purchase / song-index query function are provided, indicating that the publisher serves both traditional- and simplified-Chinese-reading musicians. Because its output is instructional and performance-oriented sheet music, CHO Publishing sits at the intersection of music education, amateur performance, and Taiwanese popular-music culture. Its songbooks are used by students, hobbyists, and performers who need accessible arrangements in the notation system they read, and its artist photo-songbooks combine sheet music with imagery and creative material aimed at fans. The firm remains a privately held Taiwanese publisher and continues to distribute through its own website and retail channels.

CHO Publishing was founded in 1993 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, by the brothers Zhuo Jinyan and Zhuo Jinhan. From its beginnings the house concentrated on printed music rather than general books, building a catalogue around the notation systems most useful to Taiwanese learners and performers. Its five core categories — numbered musical notation (簡譜), staff notation (五線譜), ukulele four-string tablature (烏克麗麗四弦譜), guitar six-string tablature (吉他六弦譜), and artist creation photo songbooks (藝人創作寫真樂譜書) — reflect that focus, covering both traditional Chinese numbered notation and Western staff and tablature systems, and extending into fan-oriented artist books. Over time the publisher developed an online presence through 卓著音樂資訊網 at musicbook.com.tw. The website became the company's public face, offering a song-index search, online sheet music, recommended songs, purchasing instructions, and online ordering, along with a link to its Facebook page. The site also added a simplified-Chinese switch and a single-song purchase function, adapting to readers across different Chinese-script markets and to demand for individual pieces rather than only full books. The company remains a privately held Taiwanese publisher. Its history is one of steady specialization: rather than expanding into unrelated publishing, it has continued to serve the practical sheet-music market with arrangements in multiple notations and with artist songbooks tied to Taiwanese popular music culture.

• 1993

  Founded in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, by brothers Zhuo Jinyan and Zhuo Jinhan.

• Established five core product categories: numbered notation, staff notation, ukulele tablature, guitar tablature, and artist photo songbooks.

• Launched the 卓著音樂資訊網 website at musicbook.com.tw with song-index search, online sheet music, and online ordering.

• Added simplified-Chinese switching and single-song purchase functions to the website.

Specialist Taiwanese publisher of practical, notation-specific sheet music and artist songbooks for students, hobbyists, performers, and fans.

• Numbered musical notation (簡譜) songbooks

• Staff notation (五線譜) songbooks

• Ukulele four-string tablature (烏克麗麗四弦譜)

• Guitar six-string tablature (吉他六弦譜)

• Artist creation photo songbooks (藝人創作寫真樂譜書)

• Online sheet music (線上樂譜)

• Single-song purchases

1. 1卓著音樂資訊網.首頁musicbook.com.tw
2. 2卓著音樂資訊網.如何購書musicbook.com.tw
3. 3CHO Publishing — Wikidatawikidata.org
4. 4卓著出版社 — 維基百科zh.wikipedia.org