Klarinet Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2005/01

From: "David C Kumpf" <dkumpf@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] glasses
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:04:54 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:
> 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?

I wear progressive lenses - reading bottom, distance top. I started having
trouble seeing the computer screen (and notes on the music stand as well)
and had a second pair of monofocals made to handle that focal length (longer
than reading but shorter than distance vision). Just decided I would rather
swap pairs instead of dealing with more distortion areas in the lens. Works
out reasonably well, but if I did it again, I might have the second pair
with reading on the bottom and computer distance on top. I don't play in an
ensemble, but your solution makes sense to me.

As I now joke, I see equally poorly at all focal lengths.

Dave Kumpf
dkumpf@-----.com

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