Larkin's pop psychology would surely have made hay with the story of how Ms. Chua once forced her daughter to go without food and drink until she had learned how to play a tune on the piano.

她书中那些如何严厉教子的故事肯定能给拉金的心理学观点提供不少负面素材，比如蔡美儿用让孩子绝食绝水的方法来逼迫孩子提高弹钢琴的水平等。

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He had thought the piano was merely a retirement pastime for his mother, and had protested mildly when she mentioned that her goal was to be good enough one day to play four-hand with him.

他认为钢琴只是母亲退休后用来打发时间的，当他母亲说起，她的目标是把琴练好，等有一天可以和瀚峰一起联弹四手，瀚峰温和地表示了反对。

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During these years I began to play the piano and the organ, and with time music has become my major interest outside science.

在中学时，我开始练习弹钢琴和管风琴，音乐逐渐成了我除科学以外的最大的兴趣。

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"Well,I got to play with the president's own piano player. I did not play for President Bush, because I think he was on a trip to Iraq.

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I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

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If he found a person to play the piano with him,good.

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For example, play Mario with a Play-Doh keyboard, or piano with fruit!

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Continuing to develop quickly, Eldar became the youngest performer to play on NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland (at age 12), and his career hasn't lost any momentum.

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How was it that a woman apparently of little musical ability had one day sat at a piano and had begun to play Chopin with ease, and Chopin music that no one had heard before?

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