Putting the PLAY back into Playing the Piano


Supporting Educators • Promoting Learning
Written by ANDREW EALES


A Radical Manifesto for Piano Education

According to Plato, “life must be lived as play”.
How might this attitude to life benefit piano education?
We teach others to play the piano, but what do we really mean by play?

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Why do we play the piano?


Supporting Your Piano Playing Journey
Written by ANDREW EALES


The question of why we play the piano would seem to be both an obvious one to ask and an easy one to answer. And yet it rarely is.

In this article I consider four “types” of player, while recognising that many of us combine aspects of most or all of them.

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