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Keep working hard and one day...

Just a little something to inspire you to keep practising this morning...

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  This lad can play a bit...

Thursday, 07 May 2020

        

If you are having trouble gaining inspiration to keep up those long hours of self isolation practice — then take just a few minutes to listen what all that hard work could achieve...

This a certain Mr Sergei Nakariakov playing a bit of Mozart on the flugel horn...

Tells you something when string players are impressed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPQcf7aOdKs

        

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