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Author: Ted Donaldson
Date: 2001-09-19 11:24
Yesterday i purchased my first ever pair of glasses and... I COULD SEE! Every single little leaf on a tree stood out in its own special way! It was so wonderful. But... As i was putting the miracle workers away, TRAGEDY! The lens popped out. After 30 minutes of fiddiling with it, my dad failed to fix it. So today, he has to take it in right when the store opens (10:00 am) and bring it to me right after they fix it. Probably won't be until 3rd, or 4th period. So yet again another day of squinting at everything. oh well....
Ted
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Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 2001-09-19 19:27
LOL! I remember clearly (pun intended) my 1st pair of glasses back about 40 years ago. Besides getting vertigo (my shoes looked _so_ far away!) I remember the "new world".
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2001-09-19 23:21
" I don't SEE the point......"
Maybe glasses would help, Dave.
Ted,
if yours are the frameless kind, the kind with the monofilament that fits into a groove around the lens, you can use a piece of dental floss to slip between the lens and monofilament.
This guides the monofilament into the grove -- much like the tool that the mechanic uses to place a tire back onto a rim.
Nevertheless, you should have your optician show you how to replace the lens. This happens a lot and it's to time consuming to take the glasses to the shop each time. Maybe the same visual effect with less trouble if you had contacts -- just a thought.
GL
~ jerry
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Author: Azzacca
Date: 2001-09-20 12:53
I got my glasses way back in 2nd grade. In 7th grade I got contacts (yippee). 3 years ago (at age 28) I had surgery Yesterday I had a checkup and am still holding at 20/25 vision in both eyes! (This is incredible considering the degree of correction which was -12.50 in my right eye and -11.25 in my left). I really did have "coke bottle bottom" glasses before that. Sigh.
Cheryl
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Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2001-09-20 17:41
Reply to Mr. Spiegelthal: This site benefits by being both--SIGHT-reading requires more than functioning equipment, good reed and ligature, and good embouchure, breath support, and technique. jbjr
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-09-20 17:59
Mr. Brenner. Jr.,
I will concede your point; however, extrapolating a bit further, this BB could thus become a forum for ANY health-related topic, from arthritis to zits, any and all of which could be claimed to affect the performance of the clarinetist. I'm just trying to keep this from becoming a "my back hurts" whine-a-thon with only a tenuous connection (if any) to playing the clarinet. Having now offended more folks with my blabber, I shall shut up for a while.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-09-21 02:12
David,
Let me do the worrying about off-topic posts. Vision is very important to playing music. Ask me whether having bi-focals hurt my playing music.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-09-21 14:45
I found that I had to get a separate pair of glasses for playing my music. Bifocals simply didn't cut it as slight head movements would throw the music out of focus. So I have a pair of single vision glasses with the focal distance set for the normal distance of my music stand. While the conductor is slightly fuzzy, I can still see his direction and have no problem reading the music. As a side benefit, they also happen to be exactly the right distance for working at my computer although I don't have any problems using my regular glasses for that.
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