pianists

For classically pianists, it just means you can read notes and play the corresponding notes.

Even pianists once needed to attain an achievable level of mastery in order to be pianists professionally and entertain aristocrats before the invention of the Zune.

>For classically pianists, it just means you can read notes and play the corresponding notes Couldn't do that.

The issue is that there are thousands and thousands of potentially great programmers who simply never try programming, just as there are thousands and thousands of never-will-be concert pianists.

There is a reason why Pianists still love and use mechanical, wooden keyboards designed 100 years ago.

The assertion that 'technologists' (as opposed to concert pianists etc) feel entitled to enact social change is simplistic and misleading.

It's like music lessons - very beneficial in all kinds of tangential ways although very few students will become concert pianists.

A bit intense for non-pianists but will put paid to the 'random happy eccentric' stuff.

Keep piano keys the width they are, unless you want slow, error prone pianists.

If you listen to some contemporary jazz pianists, for example, Marcus Roberts, there's no mistaking the strong influence of European classical music.

Sosniak (1985) found that international-level pianists had spent considerable efforts to seek out the very best musical teachers during their musical development.

Violinists and pianists also have to keep their finger nails clipped because nails get in the way of hitting the key/string properly.

But I think the important segue to acknowledge is that the fastest pianists don't necessarily make the "best" pianists in terms of the quality of the compositions they're able to churn out.

Many of those pianists are quite skilled and talented, even if they are nowhere near skilled and talented enough to be a reknowned "concert pianist" like Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Alicia de Larrocha, Mituko Uchida, etc..

> "anyone can become a concert pianist" There's a huge range of skill between "concert pianist" and "no good at piano." That's kind of the point of the speech, I think There are hundreds of pianists with a very high degree of skill, but that are not concert pianists.