Playing the Piano for Pleasure Author:Charles Cooke "Playing the Piano for Pleasure" is divided into two parts. "Goals," the shorter part, is an infectious report about piano study as a beloved and ever-growing hobby. "Means," the real heart of the book, is in essence a manual for improving one's playing. To amateurs: If you play the piano at all this book will show you how to play better. If... more » you play well, it will show you how to play still better. If you studied the piano in youth and gave it up, it will provide a master plan for taking it up again without a teacher. For all except those who have never studied an instrument at all, Playing the Piano for Pleasure points a delightful way for making piano-playing a life hobby--absorbing, satisfying, and spiritually enriching."« less