Glasses Made for Reading Music at the Piano

Welcome to livingpianos.com. Robert Estrin, here, with a really interesting subject for you, for many people like myself, the challenge of playing music and playing the piano with glasses. Now, I was lucky enough to be born with perfect vision. And to this day, my distance vision is 20/20, no problems, but close vision, of course, I need reading glasses like almost everybody at a certain age. And one of the problems is you put on a pair of glasses, and you can see your score fine, but the bottom of the frames oftentimes forms a line right where ... These are the glasses I usually use. Now, if I had a score up here, be fine. I could see the score. But this line on the bottom is right where the keys are, and it blurs everything out.

Now, one possibility is to get glasses that are really big, so you can see everything through the reading glasses. But it's really not necessary. So what I've found is a pair of glasses that I can see the music just fine, but they don't go very low. It's kind of the opposite. You always see people like this with reading glasses, but I like it the opposite. I can see the score fine, but the keys, I don't need the glasses for the keys. I can see them fine. They're big. It's not a problem, whatsoever. So you have to find something that works for you. Now, people with bifocals, for example, this could be really distracting, trying to play the piano.

Now, my wife is a flutist. She has specific glasses just for being able to read the music and to see a conductor. The possibilities and the combinations of what you need to see, when playing the piano, will dictate what sort of eyewear. Contact lenses, of course, could make a great choice, but even people with contact lenses eventually need reading glasses. So I wonder how many of you have found little tricks, like I talked about, like the pair that I found here. I hope they don't break because it's a really pretty unusual pair of reading glasses that I just happened to notice worked really well for this purpose.

So that's a little tip for today, for reading your music and playing the piano with glasses. I'd love to hear from you, any challenges you've faced or solutions that might help other people. Thanks for joining me, again. I'm Robert Estrin, here at livingpianos.com, your online piano resource. You're welcome to subscribe. Thank you, all that people who have already subscribed and Patreon followers. I'll see you next time. Once again, I'm Robert Estrin, here at livingpianos.com.

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