[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
I tried doing that at the start, but because there are more Braille symbols 
in music than one can dream of and one dot means a huge difference, it soon 
proved to just make music harder to read.
This is part of the reason why I don't like reading music on the Braille 
note, there seems to be a 3rd octave E quarter note everywhere, randomly!
I like the suggestion though!
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Arielle Silverman
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 4:58 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Hi Brandon,
I apologize, I didn't realize that you needed the highlighter to add
notation to a Braille score that isn't already there (i.e. breath
marks). I totally understand now why you would need a highlighter of
some sort. I like Heather's suggestions, or maybe you could  try
scratching out some  of the dots in one of the Braille music letters?
Like not completely scratched out, but one dot partially scratched out
of a music symbol means one thing, two dots partially scratched mean
another, etc. Sorry I don't have better suggestions.
Arielle

On 12/9/12, Heather Field <missheather at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello Brandon,
> There isn't any actual "tool", to my knowledge, that will do what you 
> want.
>
> However, I can fully appreciate the need for what you've described. I have 
> a
>
> couple of suggestions for you to try. Obviously, I make no claim to their
> success but I'm just trying to think of something that will be simple and
> fast for you to use on the fly.
>
> My immediate first thought was Wikki sticks. You could get some from any
> local store with a craft or toy department. Then, you could experiment 
> with
>
> cutting them into different lengths. You could buy, in the same craft
> department, a small, flat box that is divided into compartments of 
> different
>
> sizes. Then, you could separate the different sized pieces of Wikki sticks
> into their sections. Perhaps, you could place a very small piece 
> vertically
>
> in the space before the phrase that requires a reminded action. If there 
> was
>
> a phrase that required an extra loud or soft tone, you could have a longer
> piece of Wikki stick that ran horizontally under the whole phrase; it 
> could
>
> go below for softer and above for louder. You could work out other
> positions, sloping diagonally forward or back for example, for other
> reminders. This is the quickest, "on the fly" idea I had.
>
> A slightly less elegant, slower, but possibly of equal flexibility idea, 
> is
>
> to simply take a stylus with you and poke up dots or lines from under the
> paper. You could have a one line dymo tape slate which you positioned, 
> holes
>
> down, roughly over the line under which you had positioned the stylus. 
> Thus,
>
> when you poked the stylus up from under the paper to the spot where you 
> had
>
> positioned the point to come through, you could stop it from making a hole
> by putting the slate over it. A small square of neoprene or rubber 
> material
>
> would work just as well. You could also experiment with using a small
> tracing wheel, available from the American Printing house, and using it
> under the paper while you kept your fingers on the braille facing up and
> made a line under or over the braille you want to mark.
>
> I believe that you could get more than competent with these techniques, it
> would only take a bit of experimenting and practise on your part. I agree
> with you that, at this level of performance, you really do need to
> streamline the process and get a set of tactile marking in place that does
> an equivalent job for a tactile reader that highlighters do for print
> readers.
> I hope one of these ideas works for you. Who knows, you might find that a
> combination of both is your final answer.
> Warmly,
> Heather field
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Keith Biggs
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:32 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?
>
> Hello,
> I am wondering if any kind of Braille highlighter has been invented yet?
> Something that could change the texture of the page while still keeping 
> the
> Braille readable?
> This has been something that all my teachers have been telling me to do
> with
> my Braille books and music, as of now it is either write notes in another
> device that may crash, or put not really accurate dots that can fall off 
> on
> the spot I want to mark. (Not to menschen that becomes a lot of dots after
> a
> while).
> So if anyone has ever encountered a Braille highlighter please let me 
> know!
> Thank you,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
>
>
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