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By Jacob Stockinger
It looks like children and students think of music lessons differently than adults do.
Take a look at the statistics from a study below, cited from Classic FM, and let us know if you share the findings and agree with it.
What are the implications for schools and education?
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I have taught a number of adults returning to piano. They universally say they hated their childhood lessons, but wish they had stuck with it.
What a terrible idea it would have been to torture kids with music. Would that have led to love? I doubt it.
I think these adults are saying they wish they had the skill. I agree with the others that if you want to play, learn it now. You won’t be a pro, but likely wouldn’t have been a pro anyway. And who wants it?
We could work harder to help people take up instruments at any age.
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Comment by Janet M Murphy — October 27, 2020 @ 6:14 pm
My mother learned to play violin starting around age 50, and viola closer to age 55 – 56. Admittedly, she was a pianist/organist before then, having learned those instruments as a child in Mississippi, but that only helped her a little bit when it came to learning violin, and not at all when learning the viola.
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Comment by bratschespeilerin — October 26, 2020 @ 7:29 pm
Adults can still learn to play an instrument. I have.
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Comment by Dory — October 26, 2020 @ 11:39 am