“I want to learn piano from Kiki” — Thank you

It is not that I have been thinking about it very heavily, but there are a few things in life that I thought I would never have a connection with.

One of them was “teaching piano.”

The reason is...
I did not graduate from a music college, and I am a wild child who is not good at reading or writing music, so I have never been taught “how to teach.”
I have absolutely no confidence either.

Even so, strangely enough, I keep encountering requests saying, “I want to learn.”

Although I am like that, I have had the opportunity to give lessons several times in the past.
The reason was that the requests were not to aim for competitions or to challenge transcendental techniques, but rather “to gain confidence and to continue enjoying it.”

However, since the venue was no longer available after that, it was temporarily ended.

Unexpectedly, I reunited with the piano at the Ginsha Salon, and I have started to receive requests again, asking, “Can I learn from you?”

I am still, or rather, even more of a wild child piano player, but I have come to think that I might be able to do things like:

・Helping people experience the joy of expression
・Thinking of arrangements that are playable
・Enjoying playing together
・Helping to remove “mind blocks” such as nervousness or lack of confidence (since mental training is my specialty)

First of all, I hope to find a form of support that suits each person while talking and playing together a little at the “Kiki Salon.”

If Kiki lessons can be of help in making that person’s life rich and happy, then that is happy for me.

I have absolutely no confidence in “teaching methods to become good at playing,” but...
I am quite confident in the point that “I understand the feelings of people who cannot play well.”

If you are okay with a Kiki like this, please feel free to come to the “Kiki Salon.”

Thank you for meeting me, and thank you for bringing us together.

Cover photo (c) 2026 Norio Kurohara

P.S.
Recalling once again the talk on behavioral genetics by Professor Juko Ando, whom I also had the pleasure of being with at the talk event at Junkudo Bookstore Naha Branch, I hope to find “a form that suits that person.”