Show ENABLE BLIND TO READ MUSIC JAC JAC HI By DL-By By The As As- Associated Associated The ThC Press The blind may now read music written In the raised dots of Braille by sight With one hand brand the sightless player reads the music on the piano rack and plays It with the theother other only practice for him to memorize the notes no s sufficiently to top play p y the selection with both hands SIGHT READING READI-G A revolutionary step In teaching the blind making possible sight J reading read In of music was as perfected by L. L W. W himself sightless who is In charge of printing at the Illinois school sc ooh for the blind at Jacksonville Ii It will be demonstrated for the first time at the seventh annual Illinois conference of public welfare to be held In Joliet Jollet October 18 O I Previously In printing music In Braille Brame all the words of a song were followed by this the notes of the mUSIc In the new method each word Is fol for followed fOllowed lowed by the accompanying note throughout the selection The Braille language Is formed of combinations of dots the system em- em employing employing a group of six dots three high and two wide With the six the literary and musical codes have been worked out with 63 03 characters In use ALTERNATE HANDS IIA-DS Early In the history of Braille Brame mu mu- music music sic tic notation oil the right hand notes were printed first followed by the left-hand left notes In England the bar barby barby barby by bar method was perfected In which a phrase of the right hand mu mu- music music sic was followed by the same phrase of the left hand Rodenberg developed develop d da a bar over bar method For years the Jacksonville school has blazed a path In education of the blind bUnd Frank Hall a former superintendent superintendent Is credited with the perfection perfection perfection tion of the Braille Hall typewriter and he Invented the Braille Brame stereotyping machine used to print music and books for the blind |