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'Ordinary' people who overcome disabilities and become 'Artists' (extra-'Ordinary')

Started by Rumpelwilskin, May 19, 2005, 05:00:44 PM

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ccab

I bet he doesn't reply, the s*****c.

(ps. I overcame a trapped fart to write this)

Gazeuse

Quote from: "Cliche Guevara"Ah right. I've got my facts mixed up and even started making some up myself.

So, was there ever a blind pianist?

Edit: ...of famed "artist" stature, of course.

Don't know about blind pianist, but Delius went blind in later life and had an amenuensis (Eric Fenby) who helped him write out the music.

Bedrich Smetana also went deaf.

This chap was pretty special.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Tom

There was a nice channel five documentary about the British autistic savant Daniel Tammet. He can speak 7 languages already and learnt Icelandic in a week. He can do maths calculations to hundrends of decimal places in seconds and has set the european record for reciting pi to 22,514 digits (forwards and backwards)
He said learning the number was:
Quote"actually rather easy"

Suttonpubcrawl

Quote from: "little pianist"He said learning the number was:
Quote"actually rather easy"

It was also completely pointless.

Quote from: "Suttonpubcrawl"
It was also completely pointless.
QuoteMoney raised through sponsorship of his record-breaking attempt will benefit the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) - the UK's leading epilepsy charity

If you say so. What's the point in any sport?