[pianotech] OT

[Duaine Hechler]

 From wikipedia:  corrected by refractive surgery <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_surgery>,

Duaine

On 01/10/2013 05:48 PM, John Ashcraft wrote:
> Les,
> There is another solution for presbyopia when you are myopic, as I am. I tried bifocals and gave up. I'm 65 and still 
> use single-power lenses. The trick is to have glasses that can be positioned at any desired distance down your nose. 
> If I have mine tight against the bridge of my nose, I have distance vision. If I move them down 1/4", I have 
> computer/reading vision. If I put them down at the end of my nose, I see sharply at 8". I see at 5" with the glasses 
> off. This works best with extreme myopia; I don't know how bad your eyes are. The downside is that you look really old 
> with the glasses down your nose. On the other hand, there comes a time when we decide how we see is more important 
> than how we look.
>
> (I know this thread is old and dead, but I was off tuning in my old haunts and didn't have time to check the list.)
>
> John Ashcraft
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Leslie Bartlett <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net <mailto:l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     Two questions.
>
>     If there are folks like me, facing trifocals in glasses,  have any chosen to put the far range in the middle, and
>     the mid-range in the top?  I’m having to get new glasses and I think they will recommend trifocals- me being 67
>     and all.
>
>     Do any of you carry a “tuner”, which will play a wide variety of notes, which will not push the button while in a
>     tool case, thus running down the battery while it lies in the case?  I left my tuning fork somewhere, and have
>     found that A-440 in itself does not really indicate if a pitch raise is necessary.  I’d like to have something
>     with a slide switch instead of a push button.
>
>     Thanks for any ideas.
>
>     Les bartlett
>
>


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