[TPIN] music glasses

[Byron Jones]

I do the same.
Put my bifocals in the case on my stand tray, and change into the single 
lense reading glasses. Prescribed by my eye doctor by me taking my music 
stand to the exam.
Byron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Peters" <sloatoptical_tim at yahoo.com>
To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: [TPIN] music glasses


> Ken,
>
> That's exactly what I did. I made an intermediate pair that works great. 
> Single vision lenses work best for music and computer. I do ok out to 
> about 8-10 foot, past that it gets fuzzy real fast. (I'm near sighted) 
> I've done the same for allot of my musician patients and it's the only way 
> to go! The only hassle is changing glasses. Every time I'm through playing 
> I'll go into the living room to watch TV and wonder why I can't see the 
> screen.(Duh) Sometimes we make glasses with a line bifocal and use the 
> intermediate Rx for the distance part(upper) and then you still have your 
> full reading Rx in the bifocal for small print which works good for 
> computer and office work.
>
> Tim
>
>
> this drives me nuts, too. what do you do?  i'm thinking of getting
> another pair of glasses set at about 4 feet.
>
> ken fields
> hey, i see by your address that i'm talking to the right guy.
>
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