Hi, Richard!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   RW>  I haven't read a piece of sheet music of any kind now   
   RW>  since the '80's  and then it was part of the process   
   RW>  of my wife and I copping something from library of   
   RW>  congress braille music collection to our own, which   
   RW>  mean a hand transcription.  I usually got to do the   
   RW>  dictation, wife do the transcription part iirc.   
      
      
             Thanks for the insight!  It hadn't occurred to me that music could   
   be written in Braille... but why not??  Years ago there was a gal in our   
   community band who recorded the music, then took it home & memorized it.  I am   
   aware that (with the exception of classicists, who seem to think the highest   
   accolade they can give a student is "s/he copied it perfectly") others may not   
   learn the same way.  As it happens our conductor likes to experiment from time   
   to time.  Folks such as yours truly who can read the music & watch the   
   conductor simultaneously are quite comfortable with his modus operandi.  It   
   didn't work for her, though, because she was blind.  If I'm expected to   
   memorize or play by ear or copy what somebody else has done, I feel like a   
   fish out of water.  She probably did too.   
      
             Now you've got me wondering about that C/W gig in Lethbridge....  ;-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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