Academy of Music for the Blind
internet: http://www.ouramb.org/

Lesson space is near Los Angeles, California, in the U.S.A. There are professional workshops offered throughout the nation.

Blank Sheet Music
internet: http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/

Their tool here for designing your own blank sheet music and then printing it out is free. The adjustments allowed enable the production of large print score pages.

Braille Music Kit
internet: http://www.dodiesis.com/

This company has software called "Braille Music Editor" which sounds like it will allow music to be entered via a standard computer keyboard and written out in braille. It can also play back the brailled music. There is conversion to and from a format recognized by "Finale" music editing software. It uses the music rules of the New International Manual of Braille Music Notation published in 1996 by the World Blind Union.

Braille Music Page
internet: http://brenthugh.com/braillem/brmintro.html

This web site shows all the braille music symbols.

Bill Brown's Music For the Blind
internet: http://www.musicfortheblind.com/

"Here you will find complete courses as well as hundreds of individual song/lessons for over a dozen instruments taught in an all-audio format."

Free PDF Sheet Music
internet: http://www.freepdfsheetmusic.com

This site has sheet music from the public domain that can be downloaded and printed out. Some of the music is available already in a large print format.

Michigan Association of Transcribers for the Visually Impaired [MATVI]
mail: 913 Country Road 612, Lewiston, MI  49756 U.S.A.
voice: 517-786-5311

May sell a manual of piano instruction which combines braille and print.

M.I.R.A.C.L.E. Project
internet: http://projects.fnb.nl/

This project is attempting to united European sources for music in digital formats, to enable the blind to download printed music in a reproducible format. Recently, the project has joined with several others under a new "umbrella" organization. Look at the web site for the many music projects going on in Sweden and Europe.

Music Education Network for the Visually Impaired
mail: Southern California Conservatory of Music, 8711 Sunland Blvd., Sun Valley, CA  91352 U.S.A.
internet: http://www.menvi.org/

This organization seeks to provide a network of information regarding the teaching of music to blind children and adults, and to act as a resource guide to braille music materials.

Music Educators National Conference [MENC]
internet: http://www.menc.org

Sells professional resources for music teachers, including: a video series that explores the history and philosophy of music from different cultural groups; and books TIPS: Teaching Music to Special Learners, TIPS: Music Education in Early Childhood, and several others.

National Resource Center for Blind Musicians
internet: http://www.blindmusicstudent.org/

Holds annual "Summer Institute for Blind College-bound Musicians".

Opus Technologies
internet: http://www.opustec.com/

Their music resources including New International Manual of Braille Music Notation and How to Read Braille Music, Second Edition. These books are available in print or braille and on CD-ROM. They are also selling braille sheet music for popular songs.

Philip's Music Writer
internet: http://www.quercite.com/pmw.html

This software for Unix computers may also run under Windows. It creates music files by asking you to type in the information for the notes in a word processing software and then it imports that file.

Resources for Helping Blind Music Students
internet: http://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/Publications/fr/fr18/Issue1/f180105.htm

This informative page is maintained by the National Federation of the Blind.

School of Piano Technology for the Blind
location:  Olympia, WA U.S.A.
internet; http://www.pianotuningschool.org/

Training in how to tune pianos.

Talking Tabs
internet: http://talkingtabs.com/

Their all-audio instructional program teaches you how to play the guitar.  No vision is required, as all instruction is spoken on a compact disc.

Visiv, Ltd.
internet: http://www.visiv.co.uk/

Their software "SharpEye" program is music OCR software, taking scanned-in images of sheet music and converting it to formats compatible with MIDI or notation software, including "Goodfeel" and "Tocatta".

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