Simple answer--you want computer glasses
Long answer: go to your eye doctor with a music stand and a score,
set it up and have them make you a pair of test glasses using
removeable lenses. Then have your eyes checked for rotation and
astigmatism, and add that on top of the lenses.
Do not use pol
Dear Anthony,
I recommend the close to medium prescription for lute playing and this
should differ slightly from a regular reading prescription. When you
next go to get glasses tell them you want reading glasses for a
specific distance. Measure your eyeball to music stand distance before
This is a problem I've dealt with over the last two decades. For me,
the music part is over, since I discovered (when I started playing
viola) that no glasses makes music reading easiest for me!
But before my eyes progressed to this state, I was (actually about 15
years ago) just about where you a
I use single vision intermediate Rx specs for reading music, but I
need to experiment with a bifocal on the intermediate so I can see close up
while tuning, setting frets, etc. (This would be like wearing trifocals
without the distance portion of the lenses, just intermediate and near.) I
It isn't the indexing that provides the quality, it is that in most
cases you can get better lenses by paying more combined with the fact
the the "low end" noninedexed glasses have measurable defects--I have
measured them myself with the curvature gizmo.
Also, lexan lenses have a higher degree o
