Klarinet Archive - Posting 000870.txt from 1999/04

From: "Ray S. Whitmore" <ray@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Progressive lenses & music-reading glasses
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:12:02 -0400

I wear my mid-range glasses low on my nose, so that I can see the conductor
over the top of the rims. He's clearer that way than through the lenses.
Makes me look like an old time school master!!

Ray S. Whitmore
COmputer COnsulting Associates, Inc.
730 Hebron Avenue
PO Box 342
Glastonbury, CT 06033
ray@-----.com
860.657.2210 (voice) 860.659.0787 (FAX) 800.313.2210 (outside Hartford)

-----Original Message-----
From: Buckman, Nancy [mailto:nebuckman@-----.us]
Subject: RE: [kl] Progressive lenses & music-reading glasses

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Squires [SMTP:margeaux@-----.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 12:38 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Progressive lenses & music-reading glasses
>
> One of the musicians in our area had a pair of music glasses. They were
> bifocals. The majority of the lens was for reading the music. The top
> 1/4" of
> the lens was for distance so that he could see the conductor.
>
> Margaret
>
>
> I am guessing here, but these sound exactly like the "room distance"
> lenses of which I spoke. I can get rid of the stiff neck when looking at
> the computer and have not been berated by the music director for
> misreading parts for a whole week now. They weren't as expensive as the
> true progressives, either.
>
> Nancy

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