[TPIN] Music reading glasses

[James Calore]

Tony
I went thru this a few years ago.
I wore one contact for far vision in one eye, and the contact for near  
vision in the other eye. Your brain adapts and it works. For a while  
anyway, after about a year, headaches came with more and more  
regularity. Eventually went to bi-focal contacts, then far vision  
contacts with reading glasses, then tri-focal (no lines) glasses.  
Bottom line: Can't reverse time.

James

On Nov 1, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Tony Armitstead wrote:

> 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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