[TPIN] Music reading glasses

[Tony Armitstead]

Hmm, interestingly ...

I used to wear glasses but now wear contact lenses. When I first used
contact lenses, my prescription set my eyes correctly for medium
distance vision, so I had a set of reading glasses.These were OK for
reading, but the music was a little to far away to use the reading
glasses. So I used 2 sets of reading glasses - one for proper reading
(i.e. books) and another for reading music.

I basically had one bad eye  (needed lots of +mag) and one ok eye
(needed a little +mag). My eyes basically relied more on the good eye
than the bad one.

Then I had an update to my lens prescription. My bad eye was increased a
lot - in terms of +ve mag. What I then found was that my bad eye was
better at reading (words & music) than my right eye. This felt very
strange! So I experimented. I put my old bad eye lens in my good eye
with my new bad eye lens in my bad eye.  WOW! what a difference. I could
use my good eye (with the old bad eye lens in) for reading words and
music and my bad eye for distance vision. I know this sounds odd, but
basically I did not need to use any glasses at all! My brain adapted to
using my eyes for their appropriate usage - one eye for reading words
and music and the other for distance.

I talked this over with my optician, and it seems this approach is an
accepted one which is known to work well with contact lenses. So, for
the last 18 months I have not needed any glasses to read words, music,
drive a car and see the audience!

I dont know if this approach works for glasses - but for anyone with
lenses, its worth a try to see if this works for you. It does for me.

Regards Tony.


Rod Brawn wrote:
> 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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 Tony Armitstead
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