@MoonShadows Tell me abkut it! I use bifocals, need in between for when I am play. I tried using some old reading glasses I bought at Walmart. None of them were exactly right.

Last Summer I measured what distance I needed to cover. I brought my music book in to my eye appt snd got a pair of glasses for when aimdo music. They work for my strings and my being able to actually see if a note is an “F” or “G”, pesky little staff line! 

If buying the reading glasses does not work, and you can see the music fine, bring the violin to your appointment next. Have your optometrist figure out a pair of music glasses for you. If you also need them to read the music, bring in a stand a sheet music. I let my optometrist know I was doing this, worked out beautifully.

@Irv I did the same thing. I felt like I was always a fish looking through the bowl. I was always banging them and getting them out of alignment.

Switched to bifocals. Fell down the stairs, the bifocal line was too high. Right where I needed to see. I noticed that in a few other instances but ignored it. Got new bifocals with the line lowered. Fit nice now.

Moved out of the raised ranch with all those steps to a single floor ranch, No more steps!

Started cello, couldn’t read the music. Struggled throuh it. Finally have a pair of glasses for music, they work for my strings and the reading of the music. The music, being such short pieces right now, is memorized fairly quickly, but I like to site read a piece every day, and I have to get it memorized, so being able to actualkh see if a note is on a line or in a space is kind of important.

One day I forgot to pack my music glasses in my bag for my lesson. My instructor told me the notes. LOL I could not heg the stand close enough and not bang it.

I wanted to get a pair of funky red ones because red is my favorite color. Didn’t have that color in a frame I was willing to spend money on. The one red frame was a lot of money, better spent on good strings or good bows. Settled on a modest shade of blue pair.