I tried to read this book. I really did try, but I gave up on page 52 because I couldn't take Mr. Neely's pathetic attempts at being amusing. He seems to feel that he has to be 'cute' because a straight book on playing the piano wouldn't be interesting enough. Or perhaps he didn't have enough to say and had to pad the book somehow. The one bright spot is that I took this book out of the library instead of wasting money on it.