I welled up a bit. When I was that age, I wanted a piano. My folks said, "Boys don't play piano". At 45, I retired, bought myself a 2,645-lb concert grand & learned to play & tune. I say, "Old men do". The day I bought that piano quite serendipitously, I'd planned to kill myself.
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Thank god and Elton for showing us that boys play the piano and for god, for not letting you GO anwhere

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I thank him (in case he's there), along with Beethoven, DeBussy, Satie, Lecuona, Gottschalk, Gershwin, Schubert, Delibes & a now-dead world-class piano technician who hated my cousin (his niece by marriage) as much as I do & would never admit we were related by marriage. :-p
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Ignatius, it’s funny. Most adults I know who were given piano lessons hated them but now regret quitting. One of my sons quit. Now regrets it. The other plays many of the composers you list with joy, but that first year of misery... boy did I question myself!
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I hated lessons, but when I reached high-school my classmates were forming bands, & suddenly I was in demand! At about that time, I heard Elton John for the first time. & copied every piano lick he had (to the best of my ability, haha).
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I always envied the few classmates who had early training & had developed really fine skills by high school. Our 3,000 are now dispersed. I often wonder if they appreciate the skills I so envied listening to them in our big auditorium.
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While my Friday night football photos dried in the darkroom, I used to go putter on our school's fine old grand on the stage in moonlight from the skylight (I never knew where the light switch was). I knew nothing, but the tone from that piano drew me to it & planted the seed.
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Funny, I used to shoot high school football games on Friday nights too, for our school newspaper and yearbook. Made a darkroom in our garage and would sell prints of the football players to their girlfriends.
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Our dog Sam made a cover of it. Play it again Sam.pic.twitter.com/oRZqLh9Snk
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He’s good
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Chills. Literally, crying. I love you
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Me too, got dots, it is what my son calls goosebumps! Beautiful!
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Dots...cute
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Moral of the story: give your kids one of the best gifts you could ever give them, inspiration to pursue
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Beautifully Said
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Another one from John Lewis & Partners...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOmZXG19Ets …
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Ok - you win, that was so awesome
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