Guest post by ajlr

Learning to play the piano when one is over 50 (Part 1 of 2) 

How – and why – do people learn new things? I started learning music theory, as a total beginner, about three years ago. Ben, our next-door neighbour and a music teacher, agreed that he would take my husband and me on as pupils and so in April 2007 we started our first music lessons – for me, the first since the year I'd had at school when I was 13, for my husband, the first formal classes in the subject ever. 

I think I was – still ...