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[HG]

Nov262, on Nov 8 2008, 11:00 PM, said:

I've got several private piano students who didn't start lessons until they were adults. Contrary to popular opinion, it's been my experience as a teacher that adults actually progress quite a bit faster than children in learning to play the piano. If you have the desire, it's never too late to give it a try!

What if your missing three fingers on your left hand?

[ChiefsChick23]

HailGunther, on Nov 8 2008, 11:06 PM, said:

What if your missing three fingers on your left hand?

Use your face - it'll sound the same and be funnier for the rest of us.

[Nov262]

HailGunther, on Nov 8 2008, 11:06 PM, said:

What if your missing three fingers on your left hand?

There actually is quite a bit of piano music composed for people with only one hand. Some is written especially for left hand only, some for the right hand, some can be played equally well with either hand.

Beginning level piano music could work with a few missing fingers, and if you have to have missing fingers, it's better to have them missing from the left than from the right. A good teacher could easily edit the music to make it workable for you.

(don't you just hate teachers that cheerfully refuse to let you get away with excuses? )

[HG]

Nov262, on Nov 9 2008, 10:40 PM, said:

There actually is quite a bit of piano music composed for people with only one hand. Some is written especially for left hand only, some for the right hand, some can be played equally well with either hand.

Beginning level piano music could work with a few missing fingers, and if you have to have missing fingers, it's better to have them missing from the left than from the right. A good teacher could easily edit the music to make it workable for you.

(don't you just hate teachers that cheerfully refuse to let you get away with excuses? )

uhhhhhh yessum.

[nathanKent]

HailGunther, on Nov 8 2008, 11:06 PM, said:

What if your missing three fingers on your left hand?

There are a handful (no pun intended) of sonatas intended for players with one hand. If that doesn't work for you. Take up drums:

[Kojak]