Hi yet again, Richard!  This is the last installment in the current series:

RW>  You'll always hear or read us stressing the term
RW>  "alternative" because utilization of "substitute"
RW>  connotes inferiority, not quite as good as.


          Makes sense to me.  I did the same without thinking about it....  :-)



RW>  when we teach folks adjusting to blindness these
RW>  techniques we teach them with the student under
RW>  sleepshades, so that he/she learns them as a totally
RW>  blind person, and understands at the gut level that
RW>  the residual vision remaining is not the reason they
RW>  are successful using them.


          Yes... sighted folk often shut their eyes when they are
concentrating on input from other sources, which your students must also do. 
And they may be pleasantly surprised at how much they can hear after a bit of
instruction.  Our young friend & her mother were so thrilled when they noticed
their voices would sound different if they held a cushion close to their
mouths that they couldn't resist showing us what they'd learned.  To us as
musicians it may seem obvious. But we weren't born knowing these things... we
just paid our dues earlier.  ;-)




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