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Close-up of the fingers of two hands as the touch a paged filled with raised dots

It’s All -Gci1g (Grieg) to Me: American Braille, Part I

Posted by: Gilbert Busch

“I can’t read this braille at all,” a coworker says to me one morning; “What does it say?” Moving my hand over the dots, I am reminded of an incident from childhood. My piano teacher had just handed me Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14. I had never heard of this piece (by Mendelssohn), so I checked the …