27 Feb. 1992

To: Lorene McClintock
From: William Kersing

I never realized how my beloved Dutch piano teacher once taught me the basic principles of piano playing, After some lessons it simply was there. Now thanks to Lorene McClintock’s workshop, for the first time in my life I became conscious of the ultimate value of being correctly taught how to play intervals from the very beginning,

Programming correct intervals with your fingers from the score without visual control of your “distance” between the keys is however not only a basis for a good piano technique,

Being an Otolaryngologist performing micro-surgery in ears and especially on the vocal cords of singers and professional speakers, I know that the “distant” touch of what you want to “take out”, “make an incision” is basically determined by what your eyes (and cortex) want to be done. And during micro-surgery you cannot control what your hands are doing. only the result at the end of your instrument counts.

I am sure that the way you have taught me to play the piano will be of great advantage in micro-surgery. But your method is not only restricted to surgery.

I feel that the way Lorene McClintock teaches how to feel the intervals can be of great help to professionals of all kinds.

William Kersing M.D.. Ph..D.
Otoiaryngologist. Phoniatrician, Pianist