Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis

Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by hypersoar on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:50PM (#16024407)

This reminds me of Paul Wittgenstein (brother of philospher Ludwig)[1]. He was a concert pianist who lost his right arm in WWI and the commissioned a bunch of piano music playable with only the left hand, including works by still-famous names like Ravel and Prokofiev. My personal favorite is Korngold's [2].

More recently, there is Leon Flescher, who was a highly-renowned pianist until he lost the use of his right hand in the 60s. Amazingly, he got it back 40 years later and has enjoyed recent success again as a two-handed pianist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGulyl8bzgQ

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Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:25PM (#16025017)

A similar case is the Finland-resident Japanese pianist Izumi Tateno, who lost the use of the right half of his body after a stroke and then began giving concerts solely with his left hand.

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Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by mc32 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:54PM (#16024433)

Reminds me a bit of the drummer for Def Leopard, learned to drum one handed after car crash left him.with amputated arm.

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Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by jeffwass on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:04AM (#16028323)

I had the pleasure of seeing Nicolas McCarthy speak and play live a couple years ago.

He was born with only a right hand, and fought the odds to start learning piano at age 14. He eventually made it into and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London, their first one-handed pianist.

He plays a variety of left-hand-only repertoire. His playing is amazing, and his story inspirational.

http://nicholasmccarthy.co.uk

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Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by joshvm on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:57PM (#16026915)

Some famous (ish?) modified versions of Chopin's Etudes were written by Godowsky. His mission appears to have been to make Chopin's hardest pieces just a bit harder, including the Revolutionary for the left hand only: https://youtu.be/X2nMUwdh1Wk?t=2m41s

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Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by asimpletune on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:38AM (#16027817)

Woah

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Re:Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prost... by JamieBeckett on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:47PM (#16025177)

Wow, that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing this info.

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