[optacon-l] Re: David's music and RE: Re: new optacon design
- From: "DAVID PLUMLEE" <knobman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:29:23 -0500
Hello, Dianne,
I do not yet have a web site for my music; but if you give me your private
email address, I will send you a few of my songs as MP3 attachments to email
messages. I do not want to do music on this list. When I wrote this reply,
I used "Repply to Sender"; but I am afraid that the "sender" is the list
itself.
My email address is
knobman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am a "confirmed knob freak." I like all kinds of knobs on equipment. I
have been infatuated with knobs ever since I can remember.
Write me off list, and I'll arrange to send you a song or two.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 4:31 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] David's music and RE: Re: new optacon design
> David,
>
> Feel free to write me back privately to keep this list topic related to
> the
> Optacon, but I have to ask. Have you a website where we can hear your
> music?
> I love listening to artists who are clever.
>
> Dianne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of DAVID PLUMLEE
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 9:49 PM
> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>
> yES, i AM THE ONE WHO DID THE RECORDING OF after all. i USED A MULTITRACK
> RECORDER AND SANG ALL FOUR PARTS AND PLAYED ALL THE INSTRUMENTS. i HAVE
> DONE A GOODLY NUMBER OF HYMNS, GOSPEL SONGS, AND OTHER SELECTIONS OF
> COUNTRY
>
> AND '50'S ROCK.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marie Rudys" <mrudys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:35 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>
>
>> David, that is marvelous. Are you the one who did a song called After
>> All?
>> If you are, I was blown away by the harmony and the arrangement. To the
>> rest of you, please forgive me for veering a little bit off topic; I just
>> had to ask David this question. Back to the Optacon, it is quite a
>> delight
>> when I can read titles to songs in German and I have a French album by
>> Edith
>> Piaf somewhere. I never had a chance to use it in math or in school at
>> all,
>> since I learned it so late in life.
>>
>> Marie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "DAVID PLUMLEE" <knobman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:09 PM
>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>
>>
>>> Hi, Marie,
>>>
>>> I used my Optacon quite a bit a few years ago when I was dabbling in
>>> Latin
>>> church music of the Renaissance. I even did a rendition of a French
>>> Christmas carol on which I used the Optacon to read the French text,
>>> dictated some of it on cassette, then wrote in braille a "lyric" sheet
>>> which
>>> was a hybrid between the French text and my phonetic representation of
>>> some
>>> words so that I would get some of the tricky pronunciations correct. I
>>> suppose I could have listened to the track and brailled a totally
>>> phonetic
>>> representation of each syllable I wanted to pronounce; but reading the
>>> actual French text along with the English translation gave me a better
>>> feel
>>> of how I should sing the parts (I sang a quartet with myself).
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Marie Rudys" <mrudys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:07 PM
>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hear, hear!!! I feel the same way you do, Diane. Oh, scanners are
>>>> nice,
>>>> but nothing beats being able to read in realtime and know what words
>>>> look
>>>> like in print if names and words, especially foreign ones, are so
>>>> unusual
>>>> in
>>>> their spelling and all. I use my good old Optacon to read record
>>>> sleeves
>>>> (Oh, yes, I do have a small vinyl collection and it is old, but I love
>>>> it
>>>> and sadly, none of it is on CD);, and I use it to read German song
>>>> titles,
>>>> and Italian titles and whatever I have around here on vinyl and CD and
>>>> cassettes. You bet it is very indespensable. Scanners cannot come
>>>> close
>>>> for me; it has to be the Optacon. It helped me through those long,
>>>> lonely
>>>> nights when I could not sleep too well in the battered women's shelter
>>>> in
>>>> 1995 and 1997; whenever I was not running the dishwasher or writing
>>>> something on my Braille 'N Speak which has since died, I was always
>>>> reading
>>>> something with my Optacon. I found a way to muffle some of the
>>>> vibrations
>>>> so people would be less bothered by it. Crazy thing is when sometimes
>>>> my
>>>> roomie worked nights at the shelter, and didn't come home until much
>>>> later,
>>>> I took the Optacon to bed with me and read. It was the closest I could
>>>> come
>>>> to reading with a flashlight.
>>>>
>>>> Marie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:46 PM
>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I agree with you on this. I must say that I was thrilled when I
>>>>>acquired
>>>>>my
>>>>> first Kurzweil Personal Reader for which I scrimped and saved and got
>>>>> a
>>>>> bank
>>>>> loan to have. But I remember vividly thinking that there were still
>>>>> things
>>>>> I
>>>>> needed and wanted to see with my fingers and kind of wanted both
>>>>> elements
>>>>> within the same device. To this day, I find it more difficult to learn
>>>>> to
>>>>> do
>>>>> something via just hearing it unless I slow it down and listen line by
>>>>> line
>>>>> to the steps I need to take. There was just something about that put
>>>>> your
>>>>> hands on it in real time that made total sense to me along with the
>>>>> help
>>>>> of
>>>>> the OCR. The optacon is where I can really "SEE" it and where it
>>>>> really
>>>>> gets
>>>>> to my stunted brain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dianne
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>> On Behalf Of John Huffman
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:51 AM
>>>>> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Catherine and All,
>>>>>
>>>>> It's fine to "think outside the box" in terms of developing a NEW
>>>>> Optacon.
>>>>> After all, technology has advanced much since 1970, and it may be
>>>>> possible
>>>>> to devise new ways to accomplish old tasks which would never occur to
>>>>> us
>>>>> non-wizards.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I feel very strongly that in doing this the Optacon's primary
>>>>> purpose,
>>>>> READING print in real time, should remain the primary goal of all such
>>>>> redesign projects. That is a niche that critically needs to be kept
>>>>> filled
>>>>> by an Optacon or something very much like it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers, JH
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:40 AM
>>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just as with scanners, there are some excellent braille translation
>>>>>> programs. If you need to read print documents and covert them to
>>>>>> braille
>>>>>> that is the method to use.
>>>>>> The Optacon reads print as print--no re-interpretation. Because the
>>>>>> Optacon reads print as print, we can read all sorts of non-standard
>>>>>> things
>>>>>> including lettering imposed on pictures. Lots of mail these days
>>>>>> comes
>>>>>> with logos. We may not know all the details of what the logo contains
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> we can often if we encounter the same thing a few times, recognize
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> shape. Again, reading print as print in real time is the Optacon's
>>>>>> primary
>>>>>> purpose.
>>>>>> Catherine
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> --
>>>>>> -Catherine Thomas
>>>>>> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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