[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
- From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:08:41 -0600
actually, Dancing Dots have an installment program for Lime and GoodFeel,
and it isn't that expensive if you have a braille embosser, and if music is
your profession, or you're getting degreed in it--it's a tool.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "DIANNE B. PHELPS AND PRIMROSE" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:17 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
> Saeed,
>
> I found your comments about wanting to read music notation with the
> optacon
> interesting and touching because way back in 1977 when I was first trained
> with the optacon, I, too, had that hope. It is doable, but very very
> tedious
> and difficult at best because of the amount of space the musical staff
> takes
> on the page. Instead of being able to scan straight across as we would do
> with a printed line, you have to scan kind of up and down in peaks and
> across. While I could do it and could recognize the notes and symbols, I
> found it just too tedious and hand intensive to make good use of.
>
> For music, I would look into computerized programs which are very costly
> but
> which can translate print music into Braille and reproduce it on a Braille
> embosser. This is extremely costly, and I haven't done this, opting
> instead
> to use my ear, though if you are a professional musician, it might be
> worth
> the investigation.
>
> Having said all of that, it would be worth your while to try the optacon
> just for the experience, but as a college trained musician, I didn't make
> use of my optacon in that way.
>
> Dianne
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saeed Mirzazadeh" <saeedm19@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:01 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>
>
>> dear friends,
>> I'm Saeed Mirzazadeh from iran. I know Optacon for around 2 weeks and
>> i'm so eager to have one.
>> I'm a musician and i suppose it will be very useful for reading the
>> notes that there's not the braille versions.
>> can you help me for finding a way to buy one?
>> also, I've understood that there are diferent type of the Optacon. how
>> may i know about these diference?
>> kind regards,
>> Saeed
>>
>> On 12/19/09, don bishop <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Yes,
>>>
>>> I've been reading fortune cookies for years. It's also interesting to
>>> turn them over and read what's on the back.
>>>
>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/19/2009 9:46 AM, Dan and Bonnie Tonge wrote:
>>>> That is a neat story, and I have also had times when I didn't think
>>>> there
>>>> was anything I could read on a box or something and then picked it up
>>>> again later and found that there was, even on just an electrical
>>>> adaptor.
>>>> Has anyone ever read their fortune from a fortune cookie with the
>>>> Optacon?
>>>> I didn't think it would work, but hey, it did. I thought that was
>>>> pretty
>>>> neat reading my fortune with the Optacon. I thought the writing would
>>>> be
>>>> too small, but there it was.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Linda Gehres"<ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: "Optacon List"<optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:31 AM
>>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday I received a package which didn't contain any labels that
>>>> could
>>>> be felt. I scanned the
>>>> package on both sides perhaps too quickly with my Optacon, finding
>>>> primarily information about sending
>>>> packages via priority mail for a flat shipping rate but nothing as to
>>>> the
>>>> package's sender or
>>>> recipient. Too curious to leave it at that, I opened the box, thinking
>>>> that if there were a note inside,
>>>> it would be typed if the package was for me. Alas, the note appeared
>>>> handwritten, but I was too tired
>>>> and frustrated to try to discern whether the note was printed or in
>>>> cursive writing. A friend happened
>>>> to call last night, and I was filling him in on this whole story,
>>>> griping
>>>> that the post office had
>>>> probably, as usual, misdelivered a Christmas package to my address.
>>>> I decided this morning when I got up to re-examine the box, and
>>>> finally,
>>>> I
>>>> found a zip code which I
>>>> recognized as being that of my brother and his family near Washington,
>>>> D.C. And the note turned out
>>>> to be in print and in all caps! So, the wonderful and beloved Optacon
>>>> does
>>>> it again! All it takes
>>>> is a lot of patience sometimes!
>>>>
>>>> Linda Gehres
>>>>
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