Our association has joined the Music Braille Production Network (MBPN), which consist of 14 member countries around the world with its Barrier-Free notes Library. The network aims to bring together institutions that produce Braille notation and notation transcribers working for these institutions, to ensure mutual exchange of notation and services at the institutional level, thus facilitating access to Braille notation for visually impaired musicians living in member countries and to popularise the use of Braille notation. In our country, the benefits of being included in the Network have started to be observed. A request for a piano sonata and a piano etude book, which came to our Braille Library at night on Friday, was received from Japan Helen Braille Group, which provides services in Japan, 2 days later, on Sunday evening, and uploaded to our Braille Library.
Ali Alpaslan, Head of the Barrier-Free Note Library, says: "Thanks to MBPN, the problem of visually impaired musicians' access to musical works created by foreign composers has been solved by almost 80%. This is a great development especially for visually impaired music students studying music at fine arts high schools and undergraduate level and for the educators who teach them. From now on, the Braille notation effforts in turkey should focus on making accessible the works created by Turkish composers in Turkish Art Music, Turkish Folk Music and other music genres."
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