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"The Pianist's Talent" by Harold Taylor

Harold Taylor - 'The Pianist's Talent'

Chapter 4 The Researches of Raymond Thiberge

In this chapter Taylor considers the familiar situation of people who don't seem to be able to improve no matter how hard and long they practise.

He relates how Thiberge went to the leading pedagogues in the early part of the 20th century in an effort to understand their approaches to technique. In this quest, Thiberge had an advantage... Thiberge was blind from birth!

This meant that he had to rely on touch, to feel what the expert were actually doing. To his dismay he found the even the leading experts were not aware of what their bodies were actually doing !

He concluded that "clumsiness in general, and technical failures in particular, have no other origins than in the making of simultaneous contradictory gestures."



Mal-co-ordinated gestures are fundamentally complex,

co- ordinated gestures are fundamentally simple.



Ferrucio Busoni aged 12
Ferrucio Busoni aged 12

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