>There's a book on one of my study shelves at home by an 
>American neurologist.  I'm sorry, I can't recall the name, but 
>I think it may have been the same one who wrote "Toscanini's 
>Fumble".  One of the essays in it concerns the failure of 
>someone famous in sport X to be any good in sport Y, to which 
>he transferred.

However there's also a book called "Tone Deaf and All Thumbs" which
points out that lots of people learn things later in life particularly
in music. (There is also a book called "Tolstoy's Bicycle" which lists
the age at which people learned things).


L.

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