In December, she started taking piano lessons from a local teacher named Sheldon Stein.

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But fiscal responsibility sometimes got lost between designer clothes, piano lessons and a cell phone.

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He took classical piano lessons as a child which later contributed to the fusion style of The Doors' music.

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At 15 he began lessons with a local piano teacher to learn to read music.

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There's nothing of particular note to speak of downstairs in the living room, where Cope gives lessons on a grand piano littered with any number of music books.

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Despite a busy schedule giving private lessons and performing at schools and nursing homes, Eliot, who started playing the piano as a child and grew up surrounded by jazz, delights in the steady stream of visitors who turn up every week.

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She begged for piano lessons at age 4, but was given a recorder to play instead.

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As for his sons, the younger (Kai Inowaki) provokes chaos at school and takes piano lessons on the sly, as if they were a crime, while the elder (Yu Koyanagi) does the impossible and joins the American military a clear case of the director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, rigging the facts to suit his thematic needs.

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Jo began piano and singing lessons early, but says she missed out on a conventional carefree childhood.

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In Heilongjiang province in the northeast, a survey of 100 nursery-school children showed that 90% took lessons in piano, electric organ, painting or dance.

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