In piano playing, as in writing, it's all a matter of pressing the right keys. The keys bear a one-to-one correspondence to the notes, so that the infinitude of mistakes it is possible to produce on, say, a violin, is reduced to a discrete, manageable handful. Of all the ways of translating the motions of a human hand into music, a keyboard is the most straightforward and mathematically precise. This may have something to do with my training as a journalist, a profession that has banished tonal nuance in favor of a rigid insistence on accuracy. I've always believed I was born to play the piano, and so has everyone else who has heard me sing.
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