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Be Grateful, Not Frustrated

A Short Thanksgiving Day Essay for the Adult Piano Student

I wrote and posted the following short essay to my adult piano student blog on Thanksgiving, 2007. I’m reproducing it here because it can be a real antidote for the inevitable frustration that learning the piano brings to adult students.

I’ll leave it to you readers to give thanks for the greatest blessings in life: family, friends, health, love, etc. It did occur to me this Thanksgiving Day 2007 that we pianists have much to be thankful for in terms of music and our instrument. (more…)

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