Theres a thing on TV about dissabled musical prodogies that is really cool. Theres children that are more then good for someone playing the piano for 10 years and then theres a guy from the UK that is severly mentaly retarded and blind and he is WOW.

He took a Beethoven song (cant remember, its a famous one though) and the reporter asked is he could play it as if Mozart wrote it and is it was a Russian dance. He also play a song after listening to it once.

Any other stories?

Prokofiev wrote a piano concerto for his one-armed pianist friend, who lost his right hand in a war. It only uses the left hand.

Yea I watched that also on 60 Mins. tonight.

It's amazing, but I don't think I would trade my 'regularities' for the talent. It's a little heartbreaking, you know?

It's still crazy though. The true question, How?

Well, it's osme gift that they can hear the frequencies of the notes and process them into the keys being played-then they obviously know the keyboard-and play the melody or song which was just played or given to them.

That's my theory at least.

Prokofiev wrote a piano concerto for his one-armed pianist friend, who lost his right hand in a war. It only uses the left hand.

Ravel did the same.

There was someone I did a case study on in A level Psychology who was severely brain damaged, and had lost all memory. But the musical area of his brain was intact and he played organ all of the time from memory

I saw this on 60 minutes also. I think it's amazing our brain works. When people who are retarded in some way, there is something else which makes up for it. In these kids' case, it was the musical abilities.

"Dissabled prodogies"

:crybaby:

The horror of bad spelling...

Interesting, though. Hard to believe.

Oh dang.... Well, someone fix the title please (everyone must know of my spelling problems by now, so dont rub it in)

In a way im very envious of people like them. Its so stupid and even crule sounding but its how I feel. They dont really have to "work" at it and they are on par with people who have been playing for decades. And yet we are those who have to play the piano or what eer for decades. Like I said, I sound so stupid and idiotic but I just dont think its fair.

But it isnt fair what happened to them. I think it is fair how they get at least one thing that they are extreamly good at.

*who ever missed or cant see that 60min episode should try and find it somewhere. Its the latest epi btw*

But it isnt fair what happened to them. I think it is fair how they get at least one thing that they are extreamly good at.
You know, that's a self-contradicting sentence. I don't know what exactly you're there, but I think it's only fair that they're super-freaky-good at something, being retarded and blind. Besides, I myself like the experience of learning and getting better. It wouldn't be as fun if you just suddenly had those piano skills, would it?

Edit: Oh, wait. You're saying it's not fair that they're disabled right? If so, my bad.

I felt so bad reading your post but your edit is what I ment.