[MusicTlk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

[Robert Moore]

 Chris, 
 Are you good at writing braille yourself? 
If so you  could see if you  can find a brother or sister in the church to
sit down with you and read the lyricks to you so you can braille them up. If
you have a brailler and are even moderately  good at braille, it should not
take all that long to braille up a  few songs. Then you could put them in
your own notebook. 
 The good thing is that you don't really even need to worry  so much about
spelling or braille  errors since you will be the only one reading them. Not
making any assumptions about your braille skills. Just trying to cover the
gammit. 
Hope that helps 


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Subject: [MusicTlk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

Good Morning Fellow Musicians:

For many years I have struggled with accessing lyrics for hymns in order to
sing them in church, whether in the choir or in the congregation. When I
sing in the choir at my home church, I've often asked our director to email
me the lyrics, assuming that she has time to do so. More recently, I
discovered a wonderful Web site called hymnary.org which seems to have
hymnals for most if not all Christian denominations. The problem is that
some hymns, mostly those which were written between about 1940 and the
present day, are still copyright-protected, which means that Hymnary is not
allowed to publish them. So, if Mary picks one of those hymns, I'm stuck.

I'm an Episcopalian, and we use the 1982 Hymnal (the most recent hymnal
published by the Church). It appears that NLS has a copy, but it's only
available in hardcopy Braille, and I don't want to carry around multiple
volumes of a book just to use 4 or 5 songs which might be found in 3 or 4
volumes. Besides, constantly flipping through the book to find the song I
need would likely take away from the worship experience. Does anyone know of
any resources for finding electronic copies of hymnals where I might look
for ours?

Thanks,

Chris Nusbaum
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