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[primroseburrows]

Okay, two questions.

The first is for someone who's grown up in the British school system, as Harry did his first few school years: Is it possible for someone to go through school to age eleven and not learn anything about reading sheet music, including knowing what it looks like?

The second is for anyone who plays the piano: How long would it take for a very gifted (we're talking untapped prodigy, age sixteen) to learn to play the piano well enough to perform a complex piece of music?

Thanks in advance for any info.

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[slightly-mad.livejournal.com]

I think it's entirely possible not to have seen sheet music mostly because if I hadn't been having piano lessons at the time I wouldn't have seen it. I went to a pretty small school but it's still possible. Once you get to secondary school it's impossible.

As for the piano my friend, when she started secondary school had never had a piano lesson in her life and couldn't play the piano after she'd had lessons for one school year she could've played almost anything. She's brilliant at music and she loves it too so she actually practices so in theory it took her 10 months to be able to play brilliantly.