[BRLTTY] Braille music

[Keith Wessel]

Wow! I didn't know about Free Dots! Thank you, Lars, and of course Mario.

I had also forgotten about the Music XML format. There's certainly a lot
more music available on-line as XML than braille music, of course, and
Mario's program is an awesome way to get access to more of it.

Forgive me if this is off-topic for this list, but does anyone know if
there's any decent freeware out there that can do an OCR on print sheet
music and save it as music XML? I'm not looking to put Dancing Dots out of
business for all the amazing things they're doing, but the price tag on
their software is a bit much for someone like me who doesn't play or teach
for a living. Music XML is a good start, but being able to get music into
music XML then run it through Mario's utility would open all kinds of doors.

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: BRLTTY [mailto:brltty-bounces at brltty.com] On Behalf Of Lars Bjørndal
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 2:23 PM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Braille music

[Adrian van Bloois]

[...]

> I want to read music and play it on the piano.
> I have seen that braille music notation is available on the net, e.g.
> Bach wel-tempered clavier, which is what I want.
> There is a booklet"who is afraid of braille music", written by some
> american, I want to start with that in braille, and then try to read the
> preludes and fugues by Bach.
> Myabe it's impossible, but I'd like to do this very much so I'm gethering
> information about it.

If you find the music in the format MusicXML, there is a project
called FreeDots, that can convert some MusicXML files to braille. The
code is written mostly by Mario Lang, I think.

Please read the following article to get more information:

<https://accessiblemusicnotation.wordpress.com/working-documents/braille-mus
ic-tools/>

The FreeDots program is at: <http://github.com/mlang/freedots>.

Maybe Mario will chime in with more information.

Lars

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: BRLTTY [mailto:brltty-bounces at brltty.com] On Behalf Of Adrian van
> > Bloois
> > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 1:25 AM
> > To: Brltty <brltty at brltty.com>
> > Subject: [BRLTTY] Braille music
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > I want to read braille music on my braille display. It should be
possible
> > but how?
> > Any experience?
> > 
> > 	Adrian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 	Adri P. van Bloois
> > 
> > 
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