The concert hall is packed. The audience has settled down. There's a somber hush as you walk on to the stage. Slowly you draw your violin up to your chin and arch your fingers on the strings. Your body settles into a peaceful calm as you draw a deep breath and begin to play. Music flows from your instrument with a hypnotic rhythm, as your body weaves and ebbs with the rise and fall of the concerto. Lost in your music, you open your eyes and look down for the first time. Expecting to see your fingers dancing with the strings, you instead encounter an image of disproportionate finger fragments and cut violin strings, like the disjointed pieces of a broken mirror. You struggle to connect the image you see with the image your mind expects to see. The traumatic illusion jolts you from your hypnotic trance. You struggle to regain your composure, but it's too late. A string snaps and a false note cuts through the air. Ahh! The audience gasps! Your brilliant performance is ruined.

Are we being overly dramatic? Maybe. But if you're one of the hundreds of thousands of musicians who wear bifocal lenses you're confronted with the disconcerting effects of bifocal lines everyday --

No matter what instrument you play -- the notes on the music sheet in front of you get cut in half; you're constantly tilting your head to eliminate the distortion in your vision; your heavy glasses keep slipping down your nose at the worst possible times; your thick, bifocal-lined glasses make you look older than you are. You don't have to put up with bifocal lenses anymore. There is a better way to see and be seen.

Optima's "Natural Sight" HYPERVIEW® 166 progressive lenses, or no line bifocals, provide crisp distortion-free vision for perfect harmony between your eyes and your mind. Inspired by the same advanced computer "spline" technology as NASA's space shuttle, these amazing lenses have 50,000 hidden steps connected to each other on the lens surface. So no matter where you look -- down at your fingers on the strings of an instrument -- or what you look at -- the notes on a music sheet, your vision is beautifully clear and balanced every invisible step of the way. And the new breakthrough lens material, 1.66 high index plastic, reduces lens weight and thickness by up to 50% over ordinary plastic lenses. Optima's HYPERVIEW® 1.66 lenses with their crystal clear optics, smooth transitions, ultra light weight, and dramatically thinner edges are the ultimate in lenses with virtually no adaptation required. No matter what instrument you play with these new lenses you'll never have your lenses come between you and your music again.

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