[MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display

[Chase Crispin]

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
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> 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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