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Hillary, So you're saying that there actually is life after piano? That's encouraging. Enjoy Fall! Rick McGirr Email: [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hilary Blue" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: Re: PD/artistic abilities/Jann >I was a pianist, a fairly competent accompanist and piano teacher. I > also studied singing and had perfect pitich. > At about age 23, I started developing what I can best describe as > 'holes' in my voice - in the midst of singing a scale or a passage,, > my > voice would disappear for a few notes and then reapppear. In > retrospect, guess this must have been one of my earliest symptoms > as > the throat musclees refused to do what they were supposed to. About > a > year later I displayed the first signs of tremor in my right > hand.That > is also when I gave my last decent public solo performance on the > piano. > > Llike most of the children of the sixties and seventies, I strummed > a > guitar and sang some folk songs - my voice was still good enuff for > that(!) As the years passed, my accompanying skills deteriorated - I > found it difficult to follow the soloist whilst reading my part of > the > score ---- ie I couldn't do two things at once - and I found > myself > choosing ever slower and simpler music to play. Till fiinally, in > 2002 > (nearly thirty years after my first symptoms,, I played in public > for > the last time - accompanying an elementary school christmas > concert. > > And now I have a new problem : when that blessed moment arrives that > I > am neither too off or too on, and I can actually sit down to play > the > piano, the movement of my fingers on the keys or the rhythm or > something > sets off an attack of dyskinesia! > > And what's more - I can't hold a tune any more! > > But still, thirty plus years is a pretty good run. I have seen my > children grow up, have fouond the perfect soul mate, and I'm still > walking on my own two feet (with occasional help from a walker) And > I'm > going tonight to the Kennedy Center to hear Cecilia Bartholi! > > hilary blue > 56/32/23 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn