New specs
Tue Sep 01, 2015 6:01 pm
I've worn reading glasses for a number of years, but got my first pair of varifocals today 
Playing steel has just become even more difficult! Never mind parallax, the frets slant left and right, depending on which eye I'm looking through. I can't focus properly on my music stand and to try and look at music on the stand, I have to lift my head so far up I can't see the fretboard anymore, and when I drop my eyes back to the fretboard, it's all blurred.
Ho hum. I'm told I will get used to them.
My advice to younger players - don't get old
Playing steel has just become even more difficult! Never mind parallax, the frets slant left and right, depending on which eye I'm looking through. I can't focus properly on my music stand and to try and look at music on the stand, I have to lift my head so far up I can't see the fretboard anymore, and when I drop my eyes back to the fretboard, it's all blurred.
Ho hum. I'm told I will get used to them.
My advice to younger players - don't get old
Re: New specs
Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:42 pm
Hi Nick,
Welcome to the old world.
I've been wearing Varifocals since around 1996, the first pair made in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. When I first wore them I couldn't see the ground, most disconcerting, I thought I was going blind! Eventually a regular wearer gave me this tip. Point your nose at the subject, then move your head up and down slowly until it all comes into focus. Eventually you do it without even thinking about it.
I haven't fallen over since the last bottle of Pinot Noir?
See you soon,
Keith.
Welcome to the old world.
I've been wearing Varifocals since around 1996, the first pair made in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. When I first wore them I couldn't see the ground, most disconcerting, I thought I was going blind! Eventually a regular wearer gave me this tip. Point your nose at the subject, then move your head up and down slowly until it all comes into focus. Eventually you do it without even thinking about it.
I haven't fallen over since the last bottle of Pinot Noir?
See you soon,
Keith.
Re: New specs
Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:22 pm
I held off as long as I could as I didn't want to lose my street cred. Now I am too old to be bothered.
Hang on - street cred? - what makes me think that some young bit of stuff is going to chase anyway
Hang on - street cred? - what makes me think that some young bit of stuff is going to chase anyway
Re: New specs
Wed Sep 16, 2015 8:31 am
mick hearn wrote:I held off as long as I could as I didn't want to lose my street cred. Now I am too old to be bothered.
Hang on - street cred? - what makes me think that some young bit of stuff is going to chase anyway
Recently I've noticed young women looking at me in an interested way. I was feeling a warm glow inside until I realised they were probably thinking - He looks a bit like my grandad
Re: New specs
Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:52 am
Geoff, I know what you mean. I keep getting these e-mails at work from (allegedly) young women offering to be my "s3x slave". Where the hell were they all when I was young enough to take them up on it? 
Re: New specs
Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:12 am
Well I don't know about you Will but I had to beat them off with a stick when I was a young man
Or was that just a dream I had once