<DIV>Don't know if you already know but many guitars have small studs embedded into the side of the neck, closest to the low E string, so that we sighted people can readily identify how many frets along we're playing or placing a barre chord. They are usually flush with the wood but I think a braille reader would be able to find them - just for interest sake. Not all guitars have them - I've just checked some of them at my school.</DIV><DIV>Jacqui</DIV><DIV> </DIV><SPAN>On 28/11/12, <B class=name>Timothy Clark Music </B><timothyclarkmusic@me.com> wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV> i never understood why putting a dot would help. </DIV><DIV> actually, it would inhibit your playing and that's never good. </DIV><DIV> never, never, never and i repute, never put anything like a stupid old dot on any instrument. </DIV><DIV> you can feel the instrument whatever it is. </DIV><DIV> if it's a steel guitar for example, you can use your slide to go up and down the nek but dotting it, no don't do it. learn regularly. do you know how sighted people would view you if you walked into a room with dots all over your instrument? let's leave it at the fact that they wouldn't view you like a normal guitar player. your best bet is to learn normally as it's all tactual in the first place. </DIV><DIV> sorry if i came across as being harsh but it irritates the tar out of me when i hear someone thinking about putting dots over their instruments to improve the playing. it's nothing against any of you it just bugs me. that's all. </DIV><DIV> well, anyway, i hope this helps.<br />
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