Jack Skelland has just passed yet another graded piano exam, ahead of his 90th birthday in July. Here’s proof it’s never too late to learn a musical instrument… An 89-year-old piano student recently ...
When I was about seven or eight, I went for a taster violin lesson at school. The idea was to get an idea for the instrument, and see if I wanted to learn properly. I enjoyed it — but the expected ...
Never-say-die Jack, 86, first started learning to play after the Second World War as a 15-year-old schoolboy in Warrington, Cheshire. He struggled at first so quit but resumed lessons in 1985 at the ...