Thank you for sharing your insights! I think my friend is hoping to avoid having to rely completely on her memory to play music if possible. I'm just surprised at how many people have had to "MacGyver" their set-up so they can still read music with diminishing vision. Seems like an industry in need of innovative entrepreneurs.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that your losing vision. Would you mind telling me what your visual issue is? My vision loss is from a macular hole. Actually from the surgery meant to correct it. It left me blind in that eye. I've got low vision and no depth perception in the other eye. Have you found ways to compensate for your vision loss as you go about your day?

Yep. This is pretty much where I am at. Braille music is difficult and very cumbersome. I can still read print music, just only a small bit at a time and for a short while. Either way I would be memorizing. Using a large screen which shows small portions at a time, in conjunction with a page turner, works to some extent, but at this point the music has to be magnified so much. I miss small markings, my eye can't track everything fast enough (piano music is much more complex than that for most other instruments), and I end up leaning forward too much. In the end, I use a combination of different things to read the music, but ultimately have to memorize everything. Gone are the days of sight reading loads of music for fun. It's hard, but at least I'm still able to play. I'm thankful that at least there are so many programs available to enlarge and edit music; and as far as braille music resources are concerned I've been surprised by the wide selection from the NLS (depends on what you like to play, of course).

Thank you for your reply! I think she's using Fusion. She said she's getting frustrated with not being able to see the music and it's taking the joy out of playing cello. I'm not sure she'd be able to memorize all the pieces she plays, so am not sure she can keep playing.

Thank you for sharing your insights with me. I'm sure my friend is already doing a lot of memorization, although we're older (people over 50 never say we're "old", just "older"🙂) and memory capacity does tend to slow down.