eyesunstrung

And my tunes were played on a harp unstrung

— Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead

That's a lyric from my favorite Grateful Dead song, Ripple.

Welcome to eyesunstrung

TL;DR: it's a website dedicated to screen-reader-accessible material to learn about music and playing guitar.

For details, read the Introduction to eyesunstrung article.

Why the Name?

At a high level, think of guitar strings as transmitting a signal from your fingers (or pick) to the body of the guitar to generate sound. If there are no strings, there is no sound. Likewise, optic nerves transfer signals from your eyes to your brain, resulting in sight. Without optic nerves, nothing gets from your eyes to your brain, thus blindness. My optic nerves don't work; my eyes are unstrung.

Why the VIP Domain?

Yes, we are all certainly very important people. This VIP is for the Visually Impaired People. There is (hopefully, was, by now) some silly controversy around that term. So be it.

The unstrung Application

As the introduction explains, the main point of eyesunstrung.vip is to host the web-based version of the unstrung application. Hopefully all your questions will be answered in the unstrung pages. If not, see below.

Articles

As the introduction mentions, there are also articles about music and guitar. Hopefully you find something useful there as well. If not, see below.

Requests, Comments, and Feedback

For general feedback on the eyesunstrung.vip site or the unstrung application, web or desktop, please email feedback at eyesunstrung.vip.

Anything specific to the site or the app can also go in the eyesunstrung GitHub issues or the unstrungApp GitHub issues.