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I'm always impressed by anyone who can play piano, as I spent a few years taking lessons as a child, and only have one blues scale to show for it. What's even more spectacular, are the child prodigies -- some younger than 10-years-old, and already playing incredibly complicated classical pieces by the likes of Chopin and Rachmaninov.
For those of you equally amazed by children playing piano, MetaFilter has kindly put together a list of links to YouTube videos, all of which I highly reccomend.
This got me thinking about lessons for Edan. She's shown a passing interest in her toy piano and electic guitar (although who knows what that means at this age), and I have no expectation that she'll be a internationlly-renowned concert pianist by the time she's in junior high. However, all the piano players I know say their parents pretty much forced them to stick with the intstrument when they were kids, and they're grateful for it today. On the other hand, my parents let me quit, and I'm glad they did -- I never practiced, and was sick of getting made fun of by all the other guys.
Anyone care to offer some advice?
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4-24-2007 @ 12:11PM
Christina said...My daughter has been interested in the piano and other musical instruments since before she was one. Now, she's two and a half and loves to climb onto the piano bench and play our piano. We let her do it, because it's fostering a love of music. She also has several small keyboards and drums that she enjoys playing with, too, and we encourage her to play them often.
When she's four or five, I hope to get her enrolled in piano lessons if she's still just as interested.
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