Klarinet Archive - Posting 000416.txt from 2001/12

From: "Anne Moses" <amoses@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Playing With Glasses
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:49:35 -0500

Dear Marcia,
I've decided to invest in the latest lasik eye surgery for the solution to
olde eyes. I tried contact lenses for a year that gave me a distance
correction in one eye, and a reading correction in the other. It needed to
be tweaked, so the distance eye will be the same - for driving, and the
other eye will be corrected for the music/computer distance. It means I'll
have to wear an over the counter pair of glasses for actual reading.
However, I won't be fighting the music distance any more.
Top surgeons are $3k to $4k for both eyes.
This solution is more up front expensive, but offered me the solution I
wanted with no fussing and fighting with glasses any more.
Best,
Anne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcia S. Bundi" <mbundi@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Playing With Glasses

>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:06:57 -0500 Bill Hausmann
> <bhausmann1@-----.net> writes:
> >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!
>
> Not exactly what the lister was asking for, but I've seen some comments
> about other types of glasses, so I thought I'd respond.
>
> I am very nearsighted, and have been for as long as I can remember. I've
> finally had to join the ranks of those who have "mature" eyesight and get
> bifocals -- I was having to take off my glasses to read, as they were too
> strong for close work.
>
> The bifocals made playing very uncomfortable, especially the bass (I'm a
> short person and it's a tall instrument): I was getting a stiff neck from
> trying to keep a proper mouthpiece angle while being able to see the
> music through the upper part of the glasses. When I went back to have the
> lenses adjusted, the optician was a bit surprised that I wanted the lower
> part of the lens to be a smaller portion of it. I'm so nearsighted that I
> read music with all but the close-reading portion of the bifocal, and
> having too large an area was interfering. Now that this part is a smaller
> prt of the lens, I'm not having any problems. They're graduated lenses,
> too, and that isn't causing any problems, either. And no more stiff neck!
>
> Our orchestra has some special "cello chairs," whose seat portions are
> lifted up about 2" higher than the other chairs. This extra height really
> helps me deal with the too-short-person-for-the-too-tall-instrument stiff
> neck problem. No, I can't adjust the peg -- I don't even use it. I have a
> little piece of carpeting that goes under the bell and stores in the case
> when I'm not using it.
>
> Marcia
> Great Falls, MT
>
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