“On buying the book I realised that the Braille book was of no use to the sighted person, as it was like looking at a landscape covered with snow.”Īiming to find a solution, Robert found his answer far quicker than anticipated when he came across a HackHorsham display in a shopping centre last November. Recently, Robert discovered that the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) had published a Braille book of ocarina music, and though this was a wonderful advancement in accessibility for the visually impaired, Robert realised that sighted people were unable to interact with the content: The joy of learning music together, however, is often clouded by the inability to truly share the experience resources are limited for the visually impaired. Over the years of friendship, Robert and James have collected nearly 30 different instruments, with James’s love for music ever-growing, especially toward the ocarina. The full article can be found in The MagPi 49 and was written by Alex Bate.
A new bond was instantly formed between the two. James was blind, and so thankful for the gift that he later contacted Robert and asked for lessons.
When Robert Mayfair met eight-year-old James at a party in 1994, he gave him the gift of an ocarina.
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