I like to play recorder and flute because I feel that I'm not playing IT; it's playing ME. These instruments merely modify my breath, and so they are similar to singing.

I also play piano because I enjoy the interplay between the right and left hands. Sometimes it seems as if my left hand has a mind of its own. People will ask me how I played the accompaniment in a certain passage, and all I can say is "I don't know. It does it by itself."

Bubbly, I love your "oeufs tremblants"! But what is a squeaky hammer?