[TPIN] Music reading glasses

[Rod Brawn]

Hi All,
    I have two pair of glasses.  One I generally use for my computer, my 
optometrist says these are generally for that use.  They are ok for reading 
music in brass and concert bands.  However, the conductor is not in focus, 
but that is OK since I'm not studying his fine motor movement.
    I cannot imagine that there is not an optometric entrepreneur or company 
that wouldn't see some profit in marketing a specifically designed pair of 
spectacles for the thousands of musicians both amateur and professional who 
deal with this problem.


TTFN

Rod Brawn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Vaxtrpts at aol.com>
To: <JJTrimmel at hammond.k12.in.us>; <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Music reading glasses


>
> In a message dated 11/1/2007 12:57:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> JJTrimmel at hammond.k12.in.us writes:
>
> Well,  I've struggled a bit with reading music.  I am nearsighted and  use
> no-line bifocals.  I tried to use single vision lenses but  had  limited
> success (forgetting them was troublesome).  Then I  went to a different
> Dr. and he somehow made the bottom half of the bifocals  better and the
> top half worse.
>
>
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> Here - Here!  I have 20/400 vision and my eyes aren't really  correctable 
> to
> 20/20.  I also have a bad asigmatism in both eyes and it is  different for
> each eye.  I have blended tri-focals which are just not good  for reading 
> music,
> so I have some single vision glasses for that, and they work  OK, but not
> great. (The audience is a complete blur with these.)   I just have to make 
> do the
> best I can.  This is one reason why I  decided years ago,  not to try to 
> go
> into the studios.  My eyes do  blur out every once-in-a-while, and I have 
> to
> blink to get them to focus  again.  Not too good for right in the middle 
> of
> recording some movie  score.......................
> Mike Vax
>
>
>
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