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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000041.txt from 2003/10

From: David Lurie <david.lurie@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: bifocals and reading music
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:01:04 -0400

At 09:25 PM 10/2/2003, you wrote:
>David,
>
>I agree re your thoughts on the magnifier, also with those of Phil
>Freihofner. Mr. Mack was using one at his Carmel Valley oboe seminar
>this past summer
>to check students' reeds. Mine is a Number 7 "OptiVisor" from Donegan Optical
>Company in Kansas. The steri-opticon effect you get when you look at a
>reed's surface is pretty neat.

Yeah, that stereo effect is the best part of it. You can see in great
relief all the slopes, hills, thick and thin parts that it's impossible to
observe with the naked eye.

David