In my case, its called getting old and myopic.....If I dont have the music or tablature at 2 arms length away from me, I see everything double. Problem is that the stupid reading glasses they give you are never made for being able to read from a music stand sitting a few feet away from you and low...
The solution is to learn all your music by heart so when you play in concert you don't look totally confused..... and of course, you can then drink as many pints as you want, as long as it doesn't impair anything else but your vision.... I by the way also have the same problem if I look at my strings, instead of double strings, I now see 4 strings....so again, not looking is the best solution. I recently bought a Santoor that I play in my medieval group, and it has 4 strings per note.....fun when you are trying to hit the damn things with tiny little hammers.... and there I'm sorry, but I have to look... So I guess I will have to bring the Santoor to my next appointment with my optician, so he can make me glasses that will allow me to see the instrument properly. Bruno On 5/16/07, bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you'awl may laugh and joke but i've got dyslexia big > time and i simply can not - not WILL not - but CAN not > .. read music - in both tabs and notation. i can > forge through a melody, note by note but it's a long > and painful process. i only really "know" a piece > when i hear it. (godbless midi and mp3.) > > i happened to hear an interview once with joanna > lumley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Lumley) in > which she said she'd tried many times to do it but > simply couldn't - even with encouragement from her > conductor husband, stephen barlow > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Barlow). > > i play better now, aged 60, than i ever did when i was > kid but i still can't read a note. > > - bill > > > > http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/ > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from > your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- Bruno Cognyl-Fournier Luthiste, etc Estavel Ensemble de musique ancienne www.estavel.org
