Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2005/01

From: "Theresa Morris" <theresa.morris@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] RE: glasses
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:41:33 -0500

In the past year, I was having trouble reading the music on a music
stand with my traditional bifocals, unless I pulled it up close and read
it through my reading lens. I couldn't see it with the distance lens.
Also, the computer screen was at the same 'wrong' distance. When I got
my eyes checked, I told the doc the trouble I was having and he told me
it was time for trifocals or a separate pair of glasses for mid-range
distance. I pondered it for a while and decided to use my 2 older
frames and make single lens mid-range vision glasses out of them. I
have one pair by my computer and one pair in my clarinet bag. I just
switch glasses for rehearsals. It's a little annoying to have to keep
both pairs handy, but it's made a world of difference in reading music,
which is more than worth the trouble. Now if I could only get my
hearing corrected as well.....
Theresa

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:33:54 -0800
Message-ID: <FJEKIMDEOJFJPBKBMDOPEEOADAAA.dnleeson@-----.net>
I've been wearing trifocals for some time now and I'm having a pair of
bifocal glasses made especially for playing. They will be like upside
down bifocals, with eh little half moon on the top being a distance
lens, and the rest of the glasses being a reading lens. This way I can
see the music because I'm looking through the reading lens, but when I
have to look at the conductor, I look up and through the distance lens.
Who else has ideas about glasses for the unsightly?

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