Piano Forum

Hello, I'm a new member and I wanted to share my experience with restarting the piano after a 15 year absence. Due to frequent moving and professional interests, I consciously decided(?) not to play the piano as I refused to just play for fun e.g. 1/2 hour a day, but I needed a purpose. I used to put in hours a day in order to achieve my ARCT diploma (Canada) alongside my university studies. After that, I had no purpose sadly but continued to play and learn new pieces while still living in the same city but after finishing my university studies I moved frequently for work and I didn't imagine that my hiatus from the piano would be this long: it just happened...To make a long story short, I acquired a piano three months ago and this was my first experience playing it on the first evening: I played my favourite piece which I had learnt very well previously (Bach Toccata in E minor) and strangely, I remembered even the deviations from the free score I printed out (Peter's edition, which was wrong in places) and within a few days, I was playing it almost as well as before.  The only really annoying thing, which took a couple of weeks to get over, was my change in pitch perception. It annoyed me very much and I was constantly checking what note I just played. But I've since gotten over it. In short, I have to say that I've learned 3 more Bach toccatas from scratch to a reasonable technical level so far. I went over to Beethoven's Tempest sonata, which I also had played at my ARCT exam and I found that I remembered where the hand crossings go. I think piano is really like a bicycle if one's gotten far enough. The only thing I had to look up was fingering for scales. I couldn't remember them properly.