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18 Jan 2009, 3:05 pm

Poor motor skills are an attribute of many AS sufferers. Does anyone know either from reading studies or personal experience if there is a correlation between this and the inability to play keyboard-like instruments such as the piano and organ?



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18 Jan 2009, 3:21 pm

Playing with both hands has a lot to do with some motor coordination and some motor skills. But it's also very specific in case of the piano - great pianists do not become good athletes because they play the piano. And there are awesome pianists who have motor disabilities.

Basically, playing on a keyboard required that you coordinate each hand separately, coordinate where to put all fingers, you have to have a certain degree of spatial ability to know the absolute positions and relative distances of the keys on the keyboard and to be able to move your hands accordingly.


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18 Jan 2009, 9:24 pm

Short fingers can also make it difficult to play the keyboard. I don't have nice long tapered fingers, I have short stubby, big knuckle fingers. :( I always wanted to play the piano, but I couldn't get my fingers to reach the needed keys.



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18 Jan 2009, 10:39 pm

FrogGirl wrote:
Short fingers can also make it difficult to play the keyboard. I don't have nice long tapered fingers, I have short stubby, big knuckle fingers. :( I always wanted to play the piano, but I couldn't get my fingers to reach the needed keys.


Ah me too, I have always wanted to play the keyboard or the piano but I have small hands, I'm not sure if having small hands and feet are an autistic/Asperger's trait though I have read that most people with developmental disorders tend to do so.
My stepfather has beautiful hands and he is a musician that plays the keyboard amongst other instruments and is suspected to have Asperger's

Aside from the hands, none of the music teachers I had in school would waste their time teaching me the musical blueprints as I am hearing impaired.

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18 Jan 2009, 10:42 pm

I have long spindly fingers that have always been called 'piano fingers' by my family.

I see no reason why a person with AS can't learn keyboard/piano. I have Dyspraxic tendencies and am very clumsy with poor fine motor control. However, I type very fast and can play some piano/keyboard. I believe that practise and dedication are the key to mastering something, rather than inate ability.


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19 Jan 2009, 8:20 am

I simply do not understand how you get each hand to play two different lines of music at once, usually with more than one note at a time.


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19 Jan 2009, 11:04 am

I used to play the piano. I quite lessons. I liked it but it wasn't my favorite thing. I'm not much of a lesson person. She told my mom that I was like perfect and I was really good. In fact if I decide to start up again shell take me back.


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19 Jan 2009, 11:27 am

I enjoyed everything but the practicing. :D


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19 Jan 2009, 2:57 pm

I used to play the organ...I've played guitar now for about ten years. I mess up a lot, but I'm better than a lot of people I know. The whole "getting both hands to cooperate at the same time" was the hardest part, really. For years I had plucked with my thumb, because I couldn't get the pick to go where I wanted it to.

I've been playing a lot of acoustic strumming type stuff lately, which is nice because I don't have to worry as much about hitting the wrong strings >_<


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19 Jan 2009, 3:15 pm

I want to play the keyboard, I can play a few songs but it's hard for so many fingers to play the keyboard at one time.


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