Klarinet Archive - Posting 000794.txt from 1997/07

From: Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: 2 things
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:34:22 -0400

At 08:51 AM 7/25/97 +0100, Roger Shilcock wrote:
>(1a) How well lit is Jacqueline's "dark pit"? One thing which bothers me
>is bad lighting - and if I have to lean forward to read the dots, I tend
>to lose a good hand position. Does anyone else have trouble like this?
>Awful printing doesn't help - particularly photo-reproduced old parts; I
>don't mean Xerox copies, but republications by such as Kalmus.
Must be you're getting old ;-). Seriously (sort of), bad lighting is in
the eyes of the reader. My 14yo son amazed me last year when we were out
comet watching one night. We were in what for me amounted to near total
darkness and he was reading a star chart we had clipped from the newspaper
to locate the comet. I couldn't even SEE the chart and he was READING it!

Karl