good - but please not bagpipes - I'm only half a planet away ....

Quoting rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>:

> Amanda I'm still chuckling over your suggestion of the bugle and/or drum. 
> I'm not teaching nervous learners anymore.
> 
> Ray
> 
> Rayilyn Brown
> Director AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:33 AM
> Subject: Re: piano music
> 
> 
> > This may sound slightly patronising - it's not meant that way - a trick 
> > I've
> > found for helping nervous learners wit new ideas is to relate it to what 
> > they
> > already know.
> > My mother wouldn't try an electronic keyboard - told it was an electric 
> > piano
> > with added noises, she plonked happily away, even if not using all the
> > gadgets - "piano" was less threatening.
> >
> > Quoting rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> >> Moneesha  - I knew how  to use the computer BEFORE PD.  Learning new 
> >> stuff
> >> now is difficult and upsetting or I would be on top of stuff.  My guess 
> >> was
> >> that Prem was not computer savvy before PD and I have seen how upset well
> >> people get who are not computer types or have never learned to type.when
> >> they try to learn it.  I have a friend who can't email.  My mother's 
> >> hands
> >> shook when I tried to get her to use the computer.  It helps to have been
> >> ahead of the game.
> >> Ray
> >> Rayilyn Brown
> >> Director AZNPF
> >> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Moneesha Sharma" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:38 AM
> >> Subject: Re: piano music
> >>
> >>
> >> > Prem does not still have any tremors, so that was not the issue.  He 
> >> > was
> >> > never terribly computer savvy and I found that he was having difficulty
> >> > remembering the sequence needed to get online and access his mail. 
> >> > That
> >> > was
> >> > the first discourager.  Then he found that a left click was often a 
> >> > right
> >> > click as well.  Discourager number two.  I was just thinking of a 
> >> > single
> >> > mouse when I told me that he could not read too well off the screen.
> >> > Discourager number three.  That is when he gave up.  I don't think he
> >> > misses
> >> > it too much.  It is the guitar that he really misses.
> >> >
> >> > Moneesha
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 2008/11/25 <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >
> >> >> For the computer- has he tried resting his forearm on a rolled towel ?
> >> >> it acts as a shock-absorber.
> >> >>
> >> >>
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