Music for Blind Children
24 Jun 2009 07:37 am
The students at the School for the Blind never cease to amaze us. Many of the students learn to play a musical instrument. It takes time and a lot of patience, and many visitors to the school upon seeing the musical group ask, how? How can they learn to play an instrument with more than thirty strings whilst using a long thin piece of reed to hit these strings? How do they never seem to miss the next note?
This is what the school does for the students: it provides the teachers who have the skills to teach blind children. The teachers have the ability to pass on their knowledge in a way that the blind students will understand. The musical group were in rehearsal recently for the annual Teachers Day ceremony. For several hours each evening they rehearsed, and the result was beautiful.