For Immediate Release
To Music Braille readers, transcribers, and teachers in the U.S. and Canada:
Do you have questions about the new music braille code? Join a conference call about the Music Braille Code, 2015 (MBC-2015), presented by the Braille Authority of North America (BANA), on Tuesday, January 17, 2017, from 8:00-9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. Ask questions of expert music braille transcriber and proofreader Dan Geminder, Chair of the BANA Music Braille Committee that wrote the new codebook, and of other members of his committee.
What will you learn about during the call?
Don’t have MBC-2015 yet? It will be sold by the American Printing House for the Blind and is currently available from the BANA website in both PDF and BRF formats (the BRF is in zipped files). Visit www.brailleauthority.org/music/music.html for download instructions.
Interested in participating in this conference call? It will be limited to 25 participants, so please let us know of your desire to participate by emailing brailleauthority@gmail.com no later than Friday, December 16. Participants will be notified of their selection for the call, will receive more information about the call, and will be encouraged to email their music braille questions prior to the call so that Dan and his committee can answer those questions most clearly and completely.
BANA is excited to inform the music braille community about what’s in MBC-2015 and looks forward to hearing from those interested in participating in this informative conference call!.
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