ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 14 JANUARY 2013
A collection of Twitter reactions to my piece in the Guardian on the book...
@arusbridger tx for the inspiration... Need to get a piano!
— Ali B~P (@alibeepee) January 12, 2013
@arusbridger Your piece, and video on learning the Chopin is inspirational to we amateur pianists. Awesome achievement http://t.co/WhktrNbA
— Gerald Haigh (@geraldhaigh1) January 12, 2013
Need to start playing the piano more often.. inspired by @ARusbridger
— Shifao (@ShifaObeid) January 12, 2013
A year since I took up playing piano again after 20 yr gap so fascinating to read @arusbridger's struggles to improve http://t.co/WgE7HMSF
— Gill Oliver (@Justajourno) January 12, 2013
It's never too late. Great piece:
— Yasmin (@Yasmalai) January 12, 2013
“@arusbridger: New year resolution to play the piano again? Here's how I did it. http://t.co/1EMdH7Hd"
Old dogs, new tricks... Glory Be: http://t.co/ljYf23VZ vis @sarfrazmanzoor @arusbridger
— Kate Colquhoun (@kate_colquhoun_) January 12, 2013
@arusbridger looking forward to reading the book! Congrats! The Ballades are indeed my #Matterhorn and the Hungarian Rhapsody, my Everest.
— Gabrielle (@OpinionatedFrau) January 12, 2013
Truly inspirational piece on relearning the piano by @arusbridger http://t.co/N2vWnMrV
— Duncan King (@DuncanSKing) January 12, 2013
Wow. Inspiration for my much more modest ambition of learning fantasie impromptu before i die. http://t.co/5tZQTJax via @guardian
— Rowie Azada-Palacios (@rowsterr) January 12, 2013
I think we all should take 20 mins a day to learn something new. It'll do us good. Watch @AlanRushbridger #respect http://t.co/714Noku6
— Philippa_Perry (@Philippa_Perry) January 12, 2013
RT @PollySamson: "mother was right" http://t.co/Anrqju48 < this is lovely. Want to read the book now.
— Waffle (@BelgianWaffling) January 12, 2013
"mother was right" http://t.co/PQEUauny
— Polly Samson (@PollySamson) January 12, 2013
Incredible. The editor of the @Guardian set out to relearn the piano and master Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in a year: http://t.co/E54TvPtd
— Daniella Zalcman (@dzalcman) January 12, 2013
Enjoying @arusbridger extract of his book on learning Chopin piano piece. Must learn something new- thinking quilting.
- Alexandra Schulman, editor of British Vogue @AShulman2