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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>You can search the rnib library catalogue to see what they have without being a member. Like many of these libraries the search doesn’t seem to be very good so I just did a very broad search such as piano and worked my way through the lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.rnib.org.uk/services-we-offer-reading-services-rnib-national-library-service/music-library"><span lang=EN-AU>https://www.rnib.org.uk/services-we-offer-reading-services-rnib-national-library-service/music-library</span></a><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I got in touch with their music advisory service <a href="mailto:mas@rnib.org.uk">mas@rnib.org.uk</a> and they were happy to e-mail me brf files of various titles. I was under the impression that they only charge for producing hard copy Braille. Whether they were able to do this because they knew I was a member of Blind Low vision New Zealand which is a member of the treaty I’m not sure, but they just sent me the files direct.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Menvi-discuss <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephanie Pieck via Menvi-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 3 February 2023 12:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy' <menvi-discuss@menvi.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Stephanie Pieck <themusicsuite@verizon.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Menvi-discuss] Accessible piano method books for teaching beginners<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I am Stephanie Pieck in the United States. You might be able to buy books from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in England. They don’t have the Piano Adventures series, but their Piano Time series (put out by Oxford University Press) is quite good, especially for younger students. The books are available in print and widely used in England. The early books (before Book 1) are “Fun for Ten Fingers” and “Tunes for Ten Fingers” and “More Tunes for Ten Fingers.” There are brief descriptions in the braille that can be helpful. Some of the activities that are too visual aren’t transcribed, but there is a note on those pages explaining this, and it is not enough to take away from the book as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Try contacting RNIB by e-mail; I think you can place international orders by calling them, although I haven’t done so in quite a while.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Good luck!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Stephanie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Menvi-discuss [<a href="mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org">mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>ruby alphonse via Menvi-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 01, 2023 5:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> This is for discussing music and braille literacy<br><b>Cc:</b> ruby alphonse<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Menvi-discuss] Accessible piano method books for teaching beginners<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear Jeanie, I had written to you of list, since I didn't get any response, I thought of writing to you here as well! I'm Ruby from Bangalore India, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am teaching sighted Children from 10 years I usually have a sepperate books for diagrams, I show the students when it comes to chrotchet or Quavers or Semibreve Ties and slurs and articulation and so on. but, if we can get, the pictures and the diagrams in the same books with the music, that would be awesome. so, please can you tell me how and where to buy these My Piano adventures books? CNIB and ABC are they library in US? indians are not allowed to become members! Please write and tell me, any help is appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks again, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ruby.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>