My Music has Measles

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I was happily sight-reading music by Handel that I downloaded free from the internet, enjoying playing the piano again. When I picked up the iPad and looked closely at the page, I realized there were lots of staccato markings – little dots under the notes to make them very short. I couldn’t see them when the music was on the rack. If I had played the piece as marked, it would have sounded entirely different. The solution? I put a red dot on each mark, highlighting what I needed to see. The dots look a bit like a child’s face with measles. It worked fairly well. I think I can easily delete the marks with a few taps on the screen, although I intend to keep them there.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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      1. I’ve never used an iPad, but could you place a page-sized magnifier in front of the iPad to see better? Years ago we had an 8 1/2 X 11 plastic magnifying page we used for the White Pages to make it easier to read. Also my mom would place it over magazine recipes and small print to see more easily. So, I just hopped onto Amazondotcom and searched for “page-sized magnifying glass” and many came up, ranging from $15.00 to $25.00 and some were stand-alone like a goose-neck lamp … maybe that would help you as they range from 3X to 5X magnifying power.

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          1. Yes, hopefully you can magnify the iPad “page/screen” like you can a computer screen. I find the type on WordPress Reader and Comments very small and I have my screen enlarged to 120% and for WP at 130%, especially by the end of the day looking at a computer screen, my eyes need a break.

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                1. We had a dumb TV. David and I weren’t watching it, so we stopped our cable service. I had an e-reader put out by Borders. It was not very easy to load books from the library, so I quit using it after a year or so.

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                  1. I just kept my dumb TV as it would look empty on the cabinet where it sits – it has the big bulbous back and is just a 19-inch screen. I remember you mentioned the reader and what program you used to get library books and you were discouraged by it. I would like to get a Kindle one day, but I have books around here, some newer ones and others my mom and bought together years ago that she read, but I did not yet. When they are all done, I’ll get a Kindle. That might be a while.

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                    2. That’s true, especially for library books. My mom and I used to reserve books a lot at the library. We’d see a title of a book advertised or a favorite author and put our names in – it was great, but now I don’t know about doing that as much. It is nicer to not have to deal with them, sometimes dirty, or food-stained pages. I still have my library card, so I would be interested what they have at our library and through the County library services as well.

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