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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 2003/10

From: PhilFrei@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Re: bifocals and reading music
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:46:58 -0400

Hi -

Mid-range prescription aren't good for reed work. However, they work well
when combined with a magnifying visor that fits over them. If I use just the
visor, I'm only able to focus with one eye. (Magnification helps so much with tip
work. I don't understand why more people don't use it.)

For me, one eye is near-sighted, the other far-sighted, and neither is good a
reading music or titles at the video rental store or prices on the shelves of
grocery stores.

- Phil Freihofner

In a message dated 10/2/03 1:28:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
doublereed-l-request@-----.edu writes:

> What I ended up doing was to get a special
> set of lenses just for the mid-range only, and that worked out fine. I
> could focus both on the music page, as well as on the conductor. They were
> a little out of focus for working on reeds, but it was easy enough to
> switch to the other regular lenses for that. I thought the "mid-range" was
> a perfect solution to this problem.
>