Dear Liz,
I was once asked why I could sight read a piece of music but couldn't remember it to play from memory and I said I didn't know. However my music teacher said that it was probably because I matched the pattern of the notes on the stave to a memory of how my hands felt when I played. Whereas a person playing from memory matched the memory to the how their hands felt.
You're the ONLY other person I've ever heard of who does this. I'm exactly the same. It makes for a wonderful choral accompanist or orchestral repetiteur, but never a concert pianist!!!
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