[musictlk] Playing The Guitar

Thu Jun 30 11:33:44 UTC 2011

thanks Penny, very kind of you to say.  We sure do seem to have a lot of 
guitar players amongst us don't we.  Am I the only sax player in this group?
Bill
Bill Kociaba
CRUISEONE
Bill at Ycruise.com
954 227 7772 or Toll Free 877 227 7775
7600 Wiles Rd, Coral Springs, FL 33067
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Penny Golden" <goldpen at frontiernet.net>
To: <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Playing The Guitar


> Hi.  I thought that what Bill had to say was tremendous.  I'm a 
> mostly-left-handed braille reader and have played guitar for 50 years.  I 
> used a part of the finger closer to the nails to play the guitar.  The 
> part for reading braille was just a little "south" of that, so to speak. 
> I never had trouble with the two interfering with each other.  I played an 
> awful lot of six-string and an awful lot of twelve-string, but I still 
> kept a fast reading speed and had no difficulty wondering what the dot 
> configurations were.
> From all the responses you've got on this question, we could start a 50 
> guitar band with a couple banjos thrown in for good measure.
> BestPen
> At 03:14 PM 6/29/2011, you wrote:
>>Hi Brianna,
>>I am doing it backwards.  I am just now trying to learn braille after 
>>playing guitar for many years.  I actually haven't played in a while and 
>>my callasse have gone down somewaht but the result is a loss of 
>>sensativity in my fingertips.  I would suggest to really try to use only 
>>the very tip of your fingers to fret the neck...Thats the way you are 
>>suppose to do it anyway just many people aren't that precise.  Try very 
>>hard to arch your fingers as much as you can and use only the very tip of 
>>your finger as close to the nail as you can.  Try to be awaire of what 
>>part of your finger you use to read and try to avoid letting that area 
>>touch the strings.  Oh and most important have fun with it.
>>Bills
>>Bill Kociaba
>>CRUISEONE
>>Bill at Ycruise.com
>>954 227 7772 or Toll Free 877 227 7775
>>7600 Wiles Rd, Coral Springs, FL 33067
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Brianna Scerenscko" 
>><bfs1206 at gmail.com>
>>To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:07 PM
>>Subject: [musictlk] Playing The Guitar
>>
>>
>>>Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>My name is Brianna. So I finally decided to take a listen to my
>>>Talking Tabs set of guitar lessons that an old VR councelar gave to
>>>me. I like it so far.
>>>I was just wondering if getting calisses on my fingers from playing
>>>would effect my braille reading?
>>>Hope this makes sense. :-)
>>>
>>>Thank You
>>>
>>>Brianna
>>>
>>>
>>>On 6/29/11, Sarah Alawami <marrie12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>lol. I have a dm 420 right now so I really can't buy another model, 
>>>>pluss
>>>>it' sonly a year old but I listened to the review and niel of corse did 
>>>>a
>>>>bang up job.
>>>>On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Johnny Russo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Dear Friends,
>>>>>
>>>>>                I am totally blind and work as a sound engineer.  I 
>>>>> also
>>>>>record CD's for bands.  I have informed several companies who 
>>>>>manufacture
>>>>>recording equipment that speech prompts, added to their products would
>>>>>enable accessibility for blind engineers and musicians.  Olympus is
>>>>>listening.  They have released the LS7, a unit similar in size to other
>>>>>Olympus digital recorders.  It has speech prompts for all menus.  It
>>>>>features high quality condenser microphones, and an Omni directional
>>>>>microphone, which can be turned on or off.  The unit will allow you to
>>>>>record live shows or practice sessions in WMA, PCM, or MP3 formats. 
>>>>>You
>>>>>can
>>>>>record in 16 bit, or 24 bit resolution.  Neal Ewers has posted an
>>>>>informative podcast on the LS7 on www dot, blind cool tech dot com.  I
>>>>>spelled this out so screen readers will pronounce it clearly.  Olympus 
>>>>>is
>>>>>anxious to observe the response from the blind community in respects to
>>>>>how
>>>>>many of us purchase an LS7.  Olympus is interested in expanding product
>>>>>features in future units, if enough LS7's are sold.  Various Olympus
>>>>>dealers
>>>>>can provide an LS7 for you.  You will be impressed.  FYII
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>John Russo
>>>>>
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>>>>Sarah Alawami
>>>>
>>>>If you  need an edit  done on a small project go to
>>>>http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to 
>>>>contact me
>>>>my info is below.
>>>>
>>>>MSN and AIM: marrie12 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>website: http://music.marrie.org
>>>>Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com
>>>>youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
>>>>
>>>>
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