[musictlk] anybody play a stringed instrument here?

[Jorge Paez]

Hi humberto:
If your director gives you your pieces in advance, and you know how to read music braille,
order them from the NLS music service.
I hear that the strings section of the braille catalog comes with bowing included in the measures.

I'm not sure about this though since I've never dealt with this, I personally play Piano, but be sure to check NLS out for resources.

Jorge



On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:07 PM, humberto wrote:

> Hello, everybody.
> 
> I am a high school student in Yakima, WA, and I am enrolled with the high school orchestra. I play the violin. (specifically the first violin). My orchestra director has told often that within our sections (I.E. violins, cellos), when I play with my other partners who play the violin, I need to play bowing in the same direction. This means that everyone in a section needs to bow in the same direction.
> My question is, how can a blind person be able to tell the direction of the bowing, and how can that person match the same bowing direction with his or her other sighted members? How can a blind person watch for the other players and be able to play with the same bowing technique? I ask this because I don't want to be the only one who is not matching the same bowing direction with my instrument in front of all the others, especially because we are entering an Orchestra context, in which all the high schools in my region compete. Besides, I really want to demonstrate the community that blind people can do the same things as the sighted, just slightly different. Any comments are more than welcome.
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