[musictlk] Music theory books in braille and fun for sighted kids

Wed Jun 20 17:50:52 UTC 2012

Hi Crystal,

CNIB Library does loan Braille music that we've produced to libraries outside of Canada through interlibrary loan (we don't sell our scores). We are in touch with The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille www.tpb.se, so you may wish to contact them to arrange a loan of one of our pieces (they will contact us on your behalf). To search our catalogue, please go to www.cniblibrary.ca. Please keep in mind we can only loan scores that say  "CNIB" beside Producer, under Publication details on the full record page for the title.

If you have any further questions, feel free to email me at music.library at cnib.ca.

Cheers,
Rachel

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From: musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jing Crystal Wu ??
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [musictlk] Music theory books in braille and fun for sighted kids

    Hi Rachel,

Glad to see someone from Canada. I went to a Canadian international high school in China.

I wonder if CNIB sell or loan books to blind musicians outside of Canada. I am currently living in Stockholm, Sweden, and wish to purchase some flute music sheets in Braille.

Look forward to your reply.

Regards,
Crystal
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From: "Music Library" <Music.Library at cnib.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:26 PM
Subject: [musictlk] Music theory books in braille and fun for sighted kids

> Hello!
> I'm a Librarian at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
> where we have a large collection of sheet music written in the Braille
> music code. Several users of this collection are blind piano teachers, who
> often teach sighted students and use braille transcriptions of teaching
> books, such as the Piano Adventures series by Faber & Faber.  I am
> contacting you to ask if you know of any theory books that are enjoyable
> for kids to use, e.g. include illustrations, but have enough text in them
> that they could be understood only by the text, including music notes? We
> find that the 2nd edition of the Piano Adventures Theory book is extremely
> challenging for braille because of the difficulty of describing some of
> the visual activities. I would really appreciate knowing about any other
> theory books that are fun yet educational.
>
> Thank you in advance for any title suggestions you could provide. I look
> forward to hearing from you.
>
> Rachel Breau
> Content and Access Librarian
> CNIB Library
>
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