Show enables aan rg pa q a ble s the P blind to read music bund blind printer invents system by which Sight sightless loss musicians can read notes easily jacksonville HI five brive deurs ago L W rodenberg mind blind printer of tho the state school for the blind began experiments peri ments to perfect a system of musical scores for the tho blind in his device has been accepted by all the leading institutions for the blind in the united states and the school at jacksonville alle n now ow publishes more music than any other institution in america formerly when a blind musician would run hla his fingers over the embossed dots of his score tie he could read only notes designed for or the left hand without tho the slightest knowledge 0 of o what the COMP composition as a whole would sound like then chobad he had to go back to find out what tho the right hands part was like since each score was printed separately the english devised a dif different terent system by which they placed the treble and bass alternately that Is there would be a few lines tor for the left hand and then a few for or the right hand but even this innovation did not please tile blind musicians who wanted to study the full score of tho composition as they proceeded mr rodenberg devised eighteen different systems teras while he conducted ilia his experiments and nd submitted them to teachers of the blind throughout the country asking them to select the ono one which seemed most practicably ablo tho the system chosen has bus been received with acclamation by the blind musicians every everywhere where and the presses at jacksonville are kept busy meeting the demand for music written according to the now system uses bar over bar method it sounds simple enough recording according to mr rodenberg ile he calls it the bar over bar method instead of printing the whole composition for the left hand and ana then following the music for the tha right after tile the man er of a puzzle in which the two parts must be pieced together mr rodenberg follows the conventional method lne of printing music on tho the top line of tile the page Is printed the score for left hand just underneath der neath he be places the right hand score thus a blind musician can read with both bonds at once andret and get a pep feet idea ot of what the composition as a whole will sound like |