[optacon-l] Re: Optacon for Music

You can't do anything but gain from the attempt, and it might turn out to be 
very helpful. I'm glad you mentioned Hadley having music. I need to bone up, 
could check that out.

DOG - Depend on God,

Carolyn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 6:46 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Optacon for Music



>Hi Carolyn!

I have never tried to play any print music I was reading.  I was working to
hard to learn to read it, just barely proficient.

I studied the braille music notation course from the Hadley School for the
Blind in the mid 70's.  I also had a semester of piano in college around
the same time, maybe a little later.  My teacher was blind, so he had
braille music for me.  It was written bar over bar, so I'd read the
right-hand part with my left hand while I played with my right hand, and
did the reverse for the left-hand part, so I could read with my right hand
and play with my left.  Then, when I had both parts memorized, I'd put them
together.

Reading music with an optacon would be more challenging, because of the way
the notes are laid out on the page.  I agree that braille music is
easier.  But I enjoy a challenge, so I will see what I can do with my
keyboard and print music sometime.

Debby

At 07:19 PM 8/29/2012, H & C Arnold wrote
>I agree with you about music for one part. My husband has told me some 
>about
>print music, and it is something we'd have to out and out learn to use. 
>Like
>Braille music, it would take two hands to read, then two hands to play any
>instrument.
>
>DOG - Depend on God,
>
>Carolyn
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kathryn AfarianAfarian" <kathrynafarian@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:39 PM
>Subject: [optacon-l] Optacon for Music
>
>
>I never learned to read music with the optacon.  I always thought it might
>work well enough for voice parts or  an instrument like the flute that just
>plays a melody line, but I thought that for something like the piano it
>would be overwhelming.  Does anyone have an opinion on this?  Also, I 
>bought
>a book somewhere that shows print music symbols as raised diagrams.  With
>that tool and a knowledge of how the staff works, could I teach myself to
>read music with the optacon?  Thanks for any advice that might be
>forthcoming.
>Kathryn
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