Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 2001/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Playing With Glasses
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:06:57 -0500

At 10:36 PM 12/16/2001 -0500, Larry Zaidan wrote:
>Dear listers,
>
>I am finally getting to that point in life, and was wondering if there
>is any experience you can share as to what kind of glasses work well for
>far-sighted musicians. Do those "half" glasses (the ones that look like
>the bottom half of bi-focals) work? Thanks in advance!

Since my two eyes are not greatly different from each other, I just use
full-frame drugstore reading glasses instead of my usual bifocals. So what
if the conductor is a little fuzzy -- who looks at him anyway? ;-) With
the bifocals, I have to crane my neck unnaturally or hold the horn too
high. You could also have full frame prescription reading glasses made, or
possibly what they call "computer glasses," which are like bifocals but
with a larger reading correction area -- about 2/3 rather than 1/3 of the lens.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
451 Old Orchard Drive
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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