I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.
I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.
So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after kindergarten, all my friends took piano lessons, so I joined them.
I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.
