Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2005/01

From: Rob Chaney <robratc@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] glasses
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:15:28 -0500

Lucky me, distance means more then 2 feet away for what I can see. So
with the way my band room is set up my stand is about 3 feet away and
the conductor is about 10 ft away. With this arrangement I just need
distance glasses not reading glasses since I can still read up close
with out glasses when needed.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:07:00 -0500, Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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> > From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:34 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----. org
> > 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.
> >
> > Who else has ideas about glasses for the unsightly?
> >
> > Dan Leeson
> > DNLeeson@-----.net
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