[musictlk] anybody play a stringed instrument here?

[humberto]

Well, I do know Braille music, but I only know braille music for 
the piano since I also play the piano with braille music. I'm not 
sure if there is any braille music for the violin. Mostly all my 
pieces that my director gives, I learn them by ear, by listening 
and listening and playing along. I do learn quite fast; maybe it 
takes me about 1 week or so, depending on how lengthy the piece 
is.
Is there a section for strings on the NLS catalog that I can 
order in Audio?

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Jorge Paez <jorgeapaez at mac.com
>To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:12:23 -0500
>Subject: Re: [musictlk] anybody play a stringed instrument here?

>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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