Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2005/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] glasses
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:07:04 -0500

I've taken a slightly different tack. Progressive (Varilux) lenses were not
working for music reading (the area available for that distance was too
small). I wear contact lenses with half-frame reading glasses in front of
them. The contacts take care of any distance vision I need when I look over
the top of the glasses frame (to see the conductor, the concertmaster's bow,
the audience, etc.) and the half lenses give me enough reading area for the
music. I also have bifocal contact lenses, which I use when the music is
easy to read (not fuzzy or very small or with a lot of tiny sharps, flats
and naturals that matter if I misread them). These solve the problem even
better, but are not my favorite everyday vision solution, so I tend to use
the other combination (distance contacts with half-glasses) when I have to
drive long distances to reach the job.

Karl Krelove

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> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:34 PM
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> Subject: [kl] glasses
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> 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.
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> Who else has ideas about glasses for the unsightly?
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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