Year-Book Volume 55; Annual Report of the Board of Managers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...who were unanimous in regard to all their findings of fact, yet the majority of the committee recommended the New York musical code, while Mr. Reeves approved the original Braille. Having failed in every effort to break the force of this report in favor of New York, the opposition assumed an entirely unexpected position and opened fire from their masked guns. Mr. F. J. Campbell, of England, said that, as Mr. Wait was aware, at Batavia in 1874 he (Campbell) took a very decided opposition to the Braille notation. He did not want it urged at all. For one, he felt very much obliged to Mr. Wait for what he had done in this matter. Speaking of the New York and Braille systems, he said that he had used them both thoroughly, and for the sake of getting something to meet his views, he had devised a system which combined the good points of both. He did not desire to show the demerits of the New York or the Braille systems, but to show the merits of one which he denominated the "international system." He also said that he had letters from Dr. Armitage to the convention in which that gentleman proposed that if the convention would adopt this international system he would give up Braille, or if that could not be done, then the convention could be requested to keep the matter open until another time. Mr. Campbell said that his knowledge of music and his experience led him to believe that this was the true key to a new system not American, French, nor English, but international, and that would tend to great simplicity in preparing music for the use of the blind. Mr. Campbell also announced his intention to prepare a paper on the whole subject, to be read at the next meeting of the association in 1880. The writer had been criticised for introducing and advocating...