The Easy Winners - Scott Joplin - with a surprise twist!
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2021
- Hi friends. Hope some of you can relate. It was a tough day today and it seems I just couldn't get through it. I appreciate you sticking around in times like this when I don't have lots of time to post.. More than you know. I love you all!
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Fell in love with Joplins music when I was 11. I'm 61 now, and... you are fantastic.
My sister has down syndrome. Whenever she is having a bad day, or just feeling down I play her your music. She once found or channel looking through youtube, and just fell in love with the music. Just the same way I did, when I came across your channel 4 years ago. I’ve just started to teach her some piano, since I have been playing for 7 years. It’s very hard for her to concentrate on the playing. Whenever she is just feeling down at the piano, I just tell her: “Do you want to be like Kristen?” and the answer is always yes. I just can’t thank you enough for what you are doing. You’re awesome.
-Adam and my sister Magdalena
I can't claim to personally relate to or understand your situation, but I'm not gonna lie... this made me SMILE. Keep doing this. Keep being YOU. Made my night.
this made my whole rough day SO WORTH IT. thank you so so much. please tell your sister that i love her, and i am super excited for her to learn! seriously, thank you. ❤️
@@KristenMosca Thank you for responding! I will make sure to tell her😁😁😁
That's awesome man.
@@KristenMosca You are a Wonderful Person Dear Kristen.
I’m 73. Love playing my piano. Just for me. Love playing ragtime. Wish I could take lessons from you. You are such an inspiration to me. Your Quarantine Rag is one of my favourites. Just keep being you. Because that’s good enough for me, and everyone else loving your music.
Im 14 and loved these pieces. well done!
I'm 13 and I love Scott joplin's Songs
61, same. I have the Pass sheet music subscription. I was playing a month ago. I said to wife how long have I been playing, she said 5 hours. With Pass you have access to the Hal Leonard library so you can play everything from Elton, Billy, Karen Carpenter. It's only $10/ month. I'm also found my Joplin book. Man, I love ragtime. I think some phrases rival Chopin and Beethoven.
Hello Sharon, I have your age and since I found a simplified Version of the "Entertainer" years agoI am especially hooked to that kind of music. I never will get to this perfection you find on RUclips, but watching these videos and listening to this joyful music gets me easier through a dark winter day. I am practising "Something Doing" at the moment, it is not too difficult and I have a lot of fun with the music piece. Perhaps you give it a try?
me too
That's OK Kristen. Even two years late, I appreciate your music and all the effort you put into it.
Im a man of 54 now . Dad died 11 yeats ago. He could play virtually anything by ear but loved ragtime most of all. Finding your channel has been such a treasure. Just love listening t all the ragtime an the wonder transposition of Disney mus into ragtime. It fills my heart. There are no crap videos. You are sharing your gift and we are lucky. Don't let s rough patch get you down.
Like cracked Japanese pottery, the imperfections add character and make you more relatable. Besides it’s 99% flawless and not an easy piece to play! Nice job! 🎉
I love that you don't rush, you don't slur, you maintain your tempo, your phrasing and your power. That consistency protects the dignity (yes, the right word) of the music. Your love and respect for it shows, even with occasional mistakes. It's October now, April is well gone, along with whatever made that day difficult, hopefully, but thank you for having the courage and the respect for your followers to post it anyway.
Scott Joplin - just - love his music. Kristen - you are great.
I feel your pain! No matter how comfortable I get with a piece, the moment I start recording I get stage fright despite having unlimited takes and no one watching me play. The more attempts I go through, the more tense I get and the more frequently I mess up at even the easiest of sections. Then if I manage to do unusually well through most of a recording, I panic and ruin it. It once took me about four recording days to get a result I considered good enough to post, and I'm still not 100% satisfied with it. I think a lot of musicians are perfectionists, and that makes recording an unbelievably frustrating process since we're always telling ourselves we can do better. "Recording day" for me often represents hours of stress, crankiness, and fatigue.
One thing that has helped me recently is an experience I had messing around on a very old piano which is not in the greatest condition. The piano didn't sound good, I didn't sound good, yet someone listening in the next room complimented my playing when I finished. I'm finally starting to realize that most people really don't have a clue or care when you make a mistake or don't play your best; they're just happy to hear someone make music, especially if they don't know how to play an instrument themselves. A method I have been using while recording is forcing myself to playing through the piece multiple times in a row without stopping even if I make mistakes. It helps minimize that stressful feeling that you need to stop after making the slightest mistake, and after doing it enough times you'll probably end up with a take that's good enough to use.
Your videos are always enjoyable to watch, and this one was no exception.
thank you so much for this. just what i needed to hear today. ❤️
You gave the perfect description about how any musician in the world feels when recording. Me too.
I've spent the last year learning Bethena, and have got to a place where I can play it through quite fluently, with just a couple of places I need to polish. But then about a week or so ago I sat down and just couldn't play bars 6 and 7, couldn't work out what the chords were. Unbelievable. I know that this will happen when I finally get to take it out into the wild, and I'll look silly.
I suppose when you're doing "The Take" there will be a pressure to get it absolutely right, especially getting near the end, and this must increase tension and make mistakes more likely.
@@KristenMosca Well, Victor Borge never got rid of the "freeze up" - he never finished a concert though he was a wonderfull pianist.
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@@KristenMosca can you do heliotrope bouquet please?
First, that sounded great. Second, thank you for inviting us on you journey, not just the destination.
Really, _"inviting us on you journey, not just the destination"_ takes a lot of courage. Being vulnerable, yet not flinching.
Also, it means trusting that the audience will take it as it's intended. I hope we deserve that trust.
Too hard on yourself - Loved it even though you stopped. Watching on June 16, 2023
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You play incredibly better than I do, and I consider myself to be a good intermediate-level pianist. I love all of your RUclips content and videos. Keep up the good work and enjoyable presentations. You are an inspiration to all of us.
came for the music, stayed to relate. happens all the time. glad you still uploaded it :)
Come to Scotland, we dont have time for perfection. We just appreciate people that pick up an instrument an play! :)
"... the bullshit that I've been dealing with..."
That's life 🤣♥️ you did good!
Don't worry. I'm also 74, have been playing music (acoustic, electric guitar, bass, harmonica). I did music for a living amd can honestly count the times on one hand when I nailed a tune perfectly....
Music is endless. Our work is never done.
Cellist, Pablo Cassals was asked on his 92nd birthday why he continues to practice for 5 hours per day.
He said, "Because I think I'm catching on."
You're wonderful. My only suggestion is to add dynamics to your mighty left hand... emphasizing the run-ups.
I love your meter... rock steady...
Stopping for a short rest. She’s human after all. And so beautiful.
Yes she is beautiful but do you think she cares about you or I saying it when she hears it 100s of times a day outside of RUclips, This is about her playing which I could only wish to play as good as her
At least she has balls to do it. Much respect madame. Damn it sounds good
You would not be normal if you did not have the odd hiccup both in life an piano playing. This video show your human side, your humanity, honesty and sheer and unbelievable skill. From the north of the UK, as ever, I send my supports and thanks for bringing to life Scott Joblin's super music.
Can't wait for the next!
Rob
You play the most difficult music at an advanced level , I think your playing is so amazing . T u 4 sharing it .
Hey, I enjoyed every second of that and could care less about the restart. I’m going to get the Joplin book out of the piano bench and give this one a go. Cut yourself some slack - you’re inspiring people!
Kudos to you for not editing out your pause - you are all the more impressive for leaving the video as is. Love listening to and watching you play. Bravo!
What??? THIS is the best performance I ever heard, the second half of the music was absolutely perfect!!!
Girl, I get the "perfection syndrome," BUT... ARE. PLAYED. A-W-E-S-O-M-E-L-Y!!! I think Scott Joplin secretly took pleasure in composing some of the biggest "finger twists" on the planet! Although the frustration is understandable, you overcame two amazing issues: 1. You got over your perfectionism and posted the best you had for the time you had. 2. See number one. I teach kids these rags, often simplified, and Joplin really was a genius. Kind of a jackwad for some of his arrangements, but a genius. I am now a happy follower of you!
One thing I learned, singing on stage, if you make a mistake, carry on. Nine times out of ten, your audience isn't going to catch it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this rendition. Enough to subscribe.
Jon in rural BC, Canada
Thank you for sharing your rag time music! Dr. K is my favorite boogie woogie but the rag time is wonderful.
My mother has slipped into Alzheimer's now, but I remember her playing Scott Joplin *to deal with* days like this while I was growing up. So in an odd way, you brought her back for a few minutes. Thank you.
quite understandable; Music is stored in the brain quite different from spoken language and people with some sort of brain damage can use what has not been affected.
So true. I had a mini-stroke and could not speak coherently. I knew what I wanted to say, but random words came out. I couldn't write or type what I wanted, but I remembered an article I read decades ago in Scientific American about people singing when they couldn't speak. And it worked. My son couldn't help himself, he started singing back. :)
Luckily it cleared up on its own.
Jon in rural BC, Canada
Still one of my favourite classic Joplin rags.
2:30 took me by surprise and made me laugh out loud. The look on your face! Yes, I absolutely can relate. Thank you, Kristen. Thank you for leaving this in the video.
so human, so relatable... makes me like her even more.
You give all of us so much of your heart and blah, blah... We love 💕 you! And your time spent for us is more appreciated than you know!
YOU may not have enjoyed recording this piece - but I enjoyed watching it and so did thousands of others. Thank you.
You are a very wonderful person. And playing a piano is only one thing that you can do. You can do whatever you want.
Now, what on earth was wrong with that? You played beautifully and your rhythm was spot on and I enjoyed your playing very much!! I’ve been playing trumpet for 56 years and I know good music when I hear it! Remember, you are your own best critic, but don’t be too hard on yourself or you’ll get discouraged, and when that happens you quit playing and then you’ve lost your forward momentum… I’ve been there to, ya know!! 🎺😁
One of my favourite Joplin pieces and although you were dissatisfied I thoroughly enjoyed it and I wish I could play just one tenth as well as you do. Well done!
Omg finally she plays my favourite!!! ive waited and watched your channel for so long to hear this one...and slow...perfect...perfect even with the little flaws and struggle and added liberties...Thank you thank you!Though your super sonic version of the pineapple is astounding and I am going to listen to that again.
Another grand offering I've just come out of Hospital after 17 days so it cheered me up thanx 😎
i hope ur recovering well :>
Me too!
You know, to a non piano player such as myself, ALL ragtime is wonderful. I am in awe of your ability & honesty. I prefer violin except for ragtime piano.
So, simply keep playing and I will keep listening😊
Stay well
WHAT? it was WONDERFUL!!!
Do not worry my son is studying piano ad the university of Córdoba, I think I exactly how you may feel. This session is probably the best one I ever seen. You are showing your frustration your hard wok you put in your music. Kristine when you play perfect which is most of the time. You make it look easy but none knows how much effort and hard work every piece of music you publish. Thank you for sharing that bit of humanity.
Saludos Jorge from Concepción, Chile
Thank you for reassuring me that it’s okay to make mistakes. I am so hard on myself to play every song perfectly because if you look on youtube thats all you see. So thank you for this absolutely wonderful performance.
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I took about a year and 9 months total of "lessons" but I was in my 30's when I started. Also working full time plus a side business so there wasn't much energy for really learning. But I learned a little. What few pieces I play are memorized. Now, at almost 70 years old, when I sit down to play, sometimes I have "brain cramps". my fingers get tangled and I have to stop. Most of the time I have to just stop or play something else. Then come back to it later and play it just fine. Trying to do it "perfect" is the added stress. I tried that too. Lets just say its not my bag.
Its OK to make mistakes. It's also important to enjoy what you are doing. Just keep it up, Kristen.
Her playing got even better
So cool that end bit. I'm sure alot of ppl feel your pain. That is the beauty of any satisfying pursuit!
I need to play like this!!!! Maybe someday, There’s so few who play such solid ragtime and you’re in the top of that list.
Joplin is one of my all time favorites. Your playing sounds amazing, this is coming from someone with over 40 years of being an organist / pianist. I totally feel you. When I try to record a video to share with my friends & family, after I believe I have it memorized cleanly, I end up doing take after take after take. I've played for large groups and don't have as much stage freight as I do when the camera is rolling. Keep up the good work!
Never mind. Don't worry. Everyone makes mistakes now and then. No one is perfect. You are my favorite pianoplayer who plays my favorite music.
I'm no musician but I took a guitar class in high school. I was great in practice and even worked on little syncopations for fun, but as soon as I got in front of the teacher, my fingers would forget what they were supposed to do. The video is far from "crap". Much better than I could ever dream of doing. Don't be so hard on yourself. If music was perfect, nothing would be interesting or impressive. The songs sound great even with (mostly unnoticeable) mistakes. You may be your worst critic, but that doesn't mean we don't love and enjoy the music you make. Keep at it and have a nice stiff drink to relax. You've earned it.
You aren't alone. Somedays, I can't even play a simple piece. Otherdays, it just flows.
Well, I loved it. For me it was way more than "good enough". Thank you for posting it, pause, frustration, and all.
Hang in there, Kristen! You did a nice job on a tough piece. Attack it with passion and you'll kick ass next time! I love "Easy Winners" so much, as it reminds me of the soundtrack from the 1973 film, "The Sting", which introduced me to Ragtime music. The late Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation of the Scott Joplin rags into the movie soundtrack really added to the film, one of my all-time fav movies with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. What I didn't know at the time was that while the iconic film was set in the 1930's, Ragtime music's heyday was actually around the turn of the century. I mean, I was a kid and all I knew was that I liked the music. But I guess in the 1970's there was a cultural revival in Ragtime music, and the producers of the film thought that a Ragtime soundtrack would give the film an aestheticly nostalgic feel, even if the music was not actually as popular in the 1930's. Anyways, you are a wonderful ragtime specialist, and I always enjoy your RUclips performances (esp your doggie backup crew)! Don't get discouraged, and I hope you get that love and passion back soon the next time you shoot. Hope to catch you at Disneyland this summer at the Main Street Coke Corner Piano to hear you play! Take care and keep'em coming!!
Oh, Kristen Mosca, you need not be sorry! We all love how you play.
One of Scott Joplins best rags. : very catchy and rhythmic.
Well done piano player
Two strutters strutting would add to the ambience ..if I may say so
I mean dancing hehehehehehehe
I love the little improvisations.
I love how you just stopped, composed yourself, and kept going. Too often we stress about being perfect and it's okay to stop and take a mulligan. You're a great piano player.
Absolutely great. I play all the time but can't play this. Being human we make mistakes. Nobody else heard them. You're wonderful love yourself.
Well done, thank you for presenting one the lesser known of the Maestro's pieces. Everyone knows The Entertainer but hardly ever get to hear this. That really works. When in doubt ad lib.🙂
I feel your pain. ( I know I'm not the only one opening with that sentiment.) I work a full time day job that just runs me ragged. But my passion is playing trumpet, which I do on videos, live streams, and in person for the church I attend. Some of the music we play is 'just out of reach' for me to play it correctly on demand. I can get it in the practice room, or I can get it in rehearsal. But, with my limited time available, most of the time I have to accept that there are going to be missteps on the videos and in person performances. My college trombone professor used to encourage me to perform with a sense of freedom, saying 'here I am, warts and all'. Thanks for keepin it real @Kristen Mosca.
Thanks for all you do and hope you had a great day today! Keep smiling!
😊 Your music makes me smile and feel better no matter how bad the day has been! THANK YOU!!!
Please be kind to yourself Kristen, you are a prodigious talent... not a machine. Take a break. You have a precious gift so enjoy it! I have spent my lifetime managing all manner of performance artists and truly creative souls like yourself will always be harshly critical of your own endeavours. From where I’m sitting over here in the U.K. you are awesome! Have a great day and once again... please be kind to yourself, you have achieved more magic in those fraught couple of hours than most of us will achieve in a lifetime. 😘
I'm glad to hear that life is getting better in Vegas! Colorado remains locked down.
You play very well, i am enjoying very much to listen to your playing 🙏🥰👍✌️🙏
I can hear the frustration in your voice. Persevere! Nothing wins like perseverance!
Homie I love listening to you. I play a lot of the same ragtimes as you, especially all the Scott joplin, and you’ve given me great inspiration on some techniques within some of the songs. Couple pro tips cuz I record and perform also, and have rocked out some ragtime on the piano in magic kingdom. First tip so get used to playing under a spot light is to run a couple laps around your house/get your heart rate up before you practice. This will help simulate the adrenaline of performing in a practice setting, and you’ll be used to performing that way once you get to a live setting.
Second tip. After 3-4 unsuccessful runs, put the song away for a bit. Play another song, take a break for a half hour and internalize the music, then sit down a try again. Kudos to you
Kristen, You are amazing. I was watching your hands fly across the keyboard, and I was dumbfounded. Such a complex piece of music.
Keep it up, you bring a smile to my face every time I hear you play.
Yup, red light fever is real! Easy winners, This is my fav to do! You play it at the same tempo! Sometimes people play it too fast, but with some rags you can really hear what tempo it should be played from what the melody is doing
Beautiful as always. I recognized that piece as being from the movie, "The Sting", but never knew what the name of it was. Don't be so hard on yourself. I love your music and your playing. A person can't be perfect every day, and the more pressure you put on yourself the harder it will be to perform as you want to.
This just proves your human....maybe some of us after a month of practicing could get to your level(when your having a bad day)!
Hey some days its like that, the brain sends its signals but the hands just are at a picnic somewhere else!
Music is certainly a magnificent gift from God and it appears YOU have been gifted abundantly.
What you do is awesome...I play electric violin for yrs.
Don't be dicouraged.If you crash or mess up, just keep playing through as most times it is unoticed.
Orchestras and bands begin practice playing slow (one note) and (one measure) at a time etc. Also recordings normally has many takes.
The secret is PRACTICE!!! I think you are great and this song is ready as is.
Thanks for the playing of this difficult song!!!!!
Don't worry. I can't beat you with this. You were excellent and it is a difficult piece. So, my compliments!
Thank you for this !!!! This is a really inspirational video for me. Like many of the people commenting, I too find playing while a camera is running stressful. I am nowhere near your caliber of playing - I simply trade little videos via Dropbox of piano playing with a friend who is also practicing/studying piano. We send each other these videos as an exercise in playing for others to hear. I find that I can play a piece 10 times fine straight for myself but soon as I turn the damn camera on I am sure to screw up and/or play mechanically because I am too afraid of making mistakes. It's like running down stairs : all is well as long as you trust yourself and don't all of a sudden start thinking too much, become conscious of the steps and the motion and break an ankle. It can take me hours to record a piece that I normally can just zip through with no problem. Your video shows me that I am not alone, not to give up and. perhaps more importantly, it shows that I need to develop the bravery, as you have, to put forward my playing even if any given video is not as good as I would have liked it to be (even though you are being overly hard on yourself - your playing was very enjoyable !) . I dance salsa for a hobby as well and have actually taught myself to "dance like no-one is watching". Now I need to learn to "play like no-one is listening". Thank you for making me think !!!
Are you kidding me. Quit being so hard on yourself. Your videos show your are real and the very rare oops tells me you are human. That’s what I love about your videos. Love your music. I have ever since finding your channel. Don’t ever quit being you.😘
I understand completely. Every time that I attempt to record myself, I enter the twilight zone and think way too much. I can only imagine how brilliant these world-class artists really are!
Your playing is also captivating.
Thank you.
Your honesty is endearing! Thanks
Not a crap video. This is an important video in which I leaned that playing a complete ragtime flawlessly is hugely challenging and I'm not that dumb after all, as I myself have never gotten through a presentable take of The Enternainer, which I've been studying for 6 months. Thank you for this public service announcement, and I really enjoy your channel.
So much expression! You are ALWAYS very expressive in your playing, but this one showed so much that I actually felt joy while listening to it instead of just focusing on the music.
God bless you Kristen. Enjoy your smooth and rich piano playing. Regardless of any difficulty you experience with your piano, you have poise and confidence.
Wonderful ! That piece is almost as difficult as "The Maple leaf rag", just keep after it !
And now hearing your comments at the end, wow! Huge respect for being so open and honest!
With Joplin ragtime in particular there are so many of us out here who know nearly every single note of every Joplin piece, and catch any flubs. WE STILL LISTEN and still like any good performance, warts and all, fast, slow, just right, or even waytoofast.
I also admire the ability to play each note crisply, for its assigned or appropriate length senza pedale. I'm much more lazy and will simply stomp on that pedal and blur everything together. That's why we listen to Kristen's playing but not--dem guten Herr sei Dank--to mine.
The Easy Winners is one of my favourite Joplins. I've also been listening recently to the Feuerfest Polka.
I can appreciate how much concentration this takes, and the hours of practice. Kudos to you for sticking with it. You're an amazing pianist.
You are are a beautiful pianist. Love your ragtime. And this is not an easy piece. Thank you for sharing.
You be yourself! It's why we all listen to your voice and appreciate the wonderful talent you share.
Always enjoy your playing. My music career started on the 5 string banjo and progressed to the pedal steel. Soon to be 77 but learning to play the bagpipes now. I played all the banjo on Rick Nelson's Country Fever album when I was 18. You have all my respect. Thank you
that's amazing!!
Thank you. I struggle with recording anything, and often come to pieces when playing in front of other people, and this really helps. And not at all crap. Be good to yourself.
Thank you for the beautiful piece, and thank you for being real... RUclips is missing real people these days.
J'ai des larmes aux yeux ...C'est tellement Merveilleux ! Vive Joplin !! Vive Kristen !!
Yet again I say it was fantastic and to see you as such professional with the guts to bash on through a bad day is great. Believe me you are the best and I always return to you ever time I go on line as I need the joyousness of Joplin...and you! You live an breathe the music. Love it all and more than admire you for your talent, determination, brilliance and honest humanity!
Rob from across the pond!
Still enjoyed it. People don't realize how difficult these musical pieces are to play. It is refreshing to see what really happens and you can talk about it and not hide it behind fancy video editing. It is good to know that you are human like the rest of us. Thanks
@Kristen Mosca I had been binge watching your videos last night--starting with Star Wars Cantina, awesome!--when this pops up on my feed just after midnight. I was probably one of the first to view it--I think there were like 17 views...when I clicked off, to go to bed thinking, "I want to catch it in the morning when I can enjoy the whole thing AWAKE!" I hadn't gotten to the part where you paused.... My reaction today, it rocks! And look at all the love you're getting from your fans--seriously, some of these guys are ready to propose! :D Vegas is a crazy busy place. Give yourself some slack and ENJOY what you, us and everyone you play for all love, your stellar chops on the ivories!
i enjoyed it. Love the old rag time.
I'm glad to see that someone from this generation appreciates the music and style from that generation.
And doing a terrific job too !
Please don't feel bad, Kristen. I know it's tough trying to record oneself, especially something as tough as a piano rag like Easy Winners. Two times in my life I have tried to record 9audio only) myself playing ragtime. One time was for a writing class where I would write a paper describing how I felt as I played (it was a somewhat simplified version of Gladiolus Rag). Ugh, what a wreck I was trying to get one clean version of that! The other time was a medley of my favorite sections of rags for my grandfather (that tape disappeared over the years, sadly). I am glad to see you back here, as I had stopped checking in lately.
Some days and hours are like that. Everything is going well and then... crash and burn! I've been there many times myself both with music and other projects.
I definitely appreciate the video and as always you bring a smile to my face with your music. Take a breath and we'll see you next time.
You are unhappy, because you stopped playing partway through. I listened to the same, exact thing that you did, and I was happy, because you play the music so remarkably true to the original intent, that you could stop 4 times in the middle and all that would happen, is that I would more greatly anticipate that happy feeling coming back when you resumed playing!
Thanks for sharing so much joy and determination with all of us!
It is wonderful!
This Was Fun! You Are Really Great…Even if Your Not Perfect! Loved Rag Music Since A Boy in the Mid 1960’s And Loved it Always!!! Keep Playing & Posting & Having Fun…Relax…Because Mistakes & Music Are Fun!
Beautiful playing, lady, so don't let temporary setbacks worry you.
Your channel is sooo underrated. My favorite video from your channel is the quarantine rag in which i love the original composition and the ragtime feel to it. Keep it up!
You are great. No matter how many mistake you make, you got girl! Good for you.
Kristen you are the best, don't beat yourself up
your music has a joie de vivre I haven't heard in a long time
My wife's grandmother had it. It came from her playing in movie theaters for the silent movies
in the 1920s and 30's. she could play anything, hear it once and she could play it.
She had a special love of for Scott Joplin's work, as you do
and the whole family delighted in her playing.
It's wonderful to hear someone playing with that same bouncy spirit.
just fake a recovery and carry on, the good parts will make everyone forget.