Along with an app I have a book: Alfred’s Basic Adult Piano Course: Lesson Book Level 1

Along with practicing each day following the app, I’m working my way through the book too. So far, I’ve learned that I need to curl my fingers like I’m holding a ball. I’m assuming tennis, rather than football.

What it doesn’t say, as my Mrs TwinBikeRun, has found out, is how hard is to do that when you have longer nails. She can’t press down on the keys without flattening her hand as, if she curls her fingers, she’s pressing down with the nail rather than the tips of her fingers.

Someone should invent piano gloves for women. A special pair of gloves that you can stick your hands in, nails and all, and have some foam under the nail to create extra long fingers.

A bit like the gloves in Roald Dahl’s The Witches, but without the whole being a witch and transforming children into mice bits.

Now, where’s the application form for Dragon’s Den?