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Who inspires you?

Here is a blog post on two people who inspired me to play the piano. It has now become a part of my life!

Well, to give a quick history of my musical life, back when I was a kid, I started to pick up a ‘desire’ towards instruments. I started off with the accordion (which my Grandad taught me), to playing my grandparents acoustic piano. I was only around 5 then, so no real talent there. Then, when I moved into year 9, I started to pick up the piano from a Japanese homestay student (Who could play awesome classical songs!). Ever since then I was inspired by him and decided to take the piano more seriously. Now, at that same time, I was learning the guitar and the ukulele, so I had to choose what to continue with. Nowadays, I play the piano mainly, but play the guitar whenever it is needed or for fun. So there you have it, my Japanese homestay student did truly inspire me to develop skills on the piano.

My second inspiration would be Beethoven. Yes, I know he is long gone, but his music still remains. He inspires me as he was partly deaf, moving on to practically fully deaf and he still composed the best works of all time. His music is a true beauty and I have learned a number of his songs, at least the ones I can play at the moment.

Fur Elise (The first song I learned)  -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w

My instrument

The piano, a truly beautiful instrument that is part of the strings family. The piano has been my go-to instrument to play, to listen, and to stare with amazement at for around 3 years.