[MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display

[Sandra Gayer]

Hi Shannon,
If you're getting music transcribed, just ask for a BRF file and you
can read it on your 32 cell display.

Very best wishes,
Sandra.

On 5/5/21, Shannon Williams via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I agree the Good Feel suite seems to have a lot of great features. Have you
> thought of making a version for Mac available? Or maybe an app for IOS or
> Android? I know there's the lime lighter app for low vision users but I
> don't think a blind user could use that. My wish list grows the more I look
> at your website haha I wish my money tree grew as quickly.
> What is the braillescore program that converts files to brf? I tried to find
> it on google but it wasn't found. Does it still exist and how can I find it?
>
> Shannon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Bill McCann via
> MusicTlk
> Sent: May 4, 2021 9:51 AM
> To: 'Music Talk Mailing List for Blind Musicians' <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Bill McCann <billlist1 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display
>
> Following up on one of Chase's points, the BrailleView application that
> ships with GOODFEEL 4.2 suite has a new and improved Save As feature that
> saves the braille music output from GOODFEEL as a .brf file which you can
> open on any notetaker.  GOODFEEL's native format is actually called .gf and,
> although it's structurally quite similar to .brf, it needs to be saved in
> .brf format depending on how you plan to use it.
>
> That is, for years now, the Duxbury Braille Translator software and all
> braille devices from HIMS, Inc., recognize .gf format as formatted braille.
> Unfortunately, devices from Humanware and other manufacturers do not yet
> recognize the .gf format so you must be sure to save the output from
> GOODFEEL as .brf before you can use it on those devices.  We at Dancing Dots
> would certainly appreciate it if you would request direct support for the
> .gf format from the makers of whichever device you yourself use to read
> braille.
>
> Regards from springtime Pennsylvania,
> Bill McCann
> President
> Dancing Dots
>
> Tel: 610-783-6692
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Chase Crispin via
> MusicTlk
> Sent: Monday, May 3, 2021 10:30 PM
> To: Music Talk Mailing List for Blind Musicians <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Chase Crispin <chase.crispin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display
>
> Hi Shannon,
> I frequently use my Braille Sense to read braille music. As others have
> mentioned, the challenge is getting the music into a PRF file. You can do
> this either by scanning music into an XML to braille converter such as
> Goodfeel from Dancing Dots, or by having music professionally transcribed.
> You can also download quite a bit of music in BRF format from the NLS BARD
> website if you are a member. You actually don’t need to change your braille
> Sense to computer braille. Just open the BRF file as you would open any
> other file and the music will display correctly. Braille files contain all
> of the braille characters that the braille sense needs to display, so you
> will not have any issues reading the music regardless of your settings on
> the Braille Sense.
>
> Chase Crispin
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 3, 2021, at 8:13 AM, Shannon Williams via MusicTlk
>> <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just wondering how to read braille music with a braille display?
>> I have a Braille Sense U2 32 cell display and was wondering if I could
>> read sheet music with it? I was thinking that the music would have to
>> be in .brf format and that I'd have to change the braille to computer
>> braille but that doing this would allow me to read sheet music?
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would be great.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shannon
>>
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