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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Newton

Nils Frahm: ‘Using a chainsaw gave me strength in my fingers for piano’

‘By the age of eight, I knew I wouldn’t compose like Bach or Beethoven’: Nils Frahm.
‘By the age of eight, I knew I wouldn’t compose like Bach or Beethoven’: Nils Frahm. Photograph: Gebhart de Koekkoek/Connected Archives

Music was everywhere when I grew up, not just on the stereo. My mother had a piano. My father played guitar and collected percussion instruments: drums, bongos…

My parents both had a deep connection to music. I could see it brought them a kind of serenity. And they encouraged me to play.

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