How long have you people been playing?

[happyface94]

14 years for me (I'm 18) . I'm not better than most people that played 9 years in terms of technique. But my taste has more matured, and I can appreciate differences in different grand pianos (I also own one). Interpretation is another thing, I cant play pieces I dont understand.

[gorbee natcase]

16 years

[SteveK]

11 years, atarted at 8.

[lagin]

1 year, 8 months, officially.  Toyed around with beginners' method books like Bastien, before that.  Got to level one!  Yah, so just under two years, of really learning with a teacher.  I'm 20, well, close enough

[wintervind]

15 yrs
but only 6 years seriously

[Derek]

I had handfuls of failed lessons ever since I was 7. So thats about 14 years, but I'd say 95% of what I know came from the past four years or so, of incredibly obsessive playing.

[Barbosa-piano]

     3 years. I am self taught, and I used Alfred Cortot's Chopin Etudes Edition as a great help for technique, I first tried them with great ease, now I play almost all of them.

[Fugue]

Techinically three years, but if you go by when I started actually practicing, about three months.

[nanabush]

About 7 years, but only 3 playing more advanced stuff... I wasn't fond of piano when I started at around 9-10.. and never really got into into it until I was about 14 when I discovered all the wonderful music online..So hadn't played anything harder than Claire de Lune until I was about 14

[vaiva]

hello there, I'm new here. Just today I've found this Internet site and now I decided to introduce myself here. I'm playing piano already for 14 years. And now I'm a student of Music Accademy.