I am not a pianist, I am not a musician by profession - I play the piano because I like to play it. When I was a little boy, I started learning the piano and my teacher, herself a well known pianist told my parents, that I should become a pianist - but they wanted me to become something "serious" and "proper". Well - I became first a physicist, later an industry manager, then a teacher and forgot for very many years about playing the piano at all. 
Now I have restarted at age 65 and play again - because I like it. I know that what I play is usually not as it is tought, but I like it that way, it helps me to forget what I wanted to become several decades ago...


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