There's talk of making a movie around this - it's a bit reminiscent of the situation in one excellent recent film, "Ladies in Lavender".

I gather they've stopped him playing the piano with the idea thatta this will force him to find other ways of communicating. That sounds pretty brutal and simplistic to me.

I note that in the picture in the press he appears to be carrying a music score, suggesting that he's able to read music as well as play it.
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It strange the way some people are so eager to avoid being "taken in" that they rush to judgement on the basis of a couple of headlines.