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Arama Teancum started piano when he was 7years old. As time went on he lost interest in it , and by 12 years old it was PAINFUL for him to practice and for us to try to get him to, so he turned to drums. He was awesome at these too. (Arama is the kind of Boy that is great at anything he tries)
So you can imagine my surprise and absolute pleasure when I saw this.



Arama has been doing music at school and here he is playing an arrangement he composed on the piano. I dared not say a word!! I pretended not to notice and  Just watched with pride as he twinkled his fingers around and was equally stoked when his brother sat next to him to watch.  This is a ‘Yay’ moment for a parent. ( he didn’t even know I took the picture!)

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