This was a touching post. I've thought a lot about this in the context of my own musical practice and through an acquaintance who's been going through rounds o

This was a touching post. I've thought a lot about this in the context of my own musical practice and through an acquaintance who's been going through rounds of neurologists, MRIs and what not to get at those symptoms. Part of musical practice is playing digital piano with the sound off, or playing a solidbody guitar unplugged and with earplugs in so i can't hear anything. The point being you have to extrapolate what sounds would be produced and later resolve what you expected and what you actually perceive. Also, this reminds me of musicians like David N. Baker (jazz trombone), Evelyn Glennie (percussion) and Leon Fleisher (classical piano), who had different challenges but learned new instruments or kept playing when they were essentially unable to play their primary instruments. There's others: Django Reinhardt is famous, of course, but Michel Petrucciani not so much