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The Piano
THE PIANO
Where does music come from? Is it something that you learn? Or is it simply given to you – and nobody knows where it comes from?
The young boy in this story is not good at school. He is not good at learning words or numbers. He likes to sing with the other boys and girls; but he is not good at singing. He does not get the first job that he tries to get. He is a nice boy, but he is not good at anything special.
And then he finds a piano. He also finds that he can play the piano. So, perhaps we can say that he does not find music, but that music finds him.
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