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How playing the piano can relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease

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More and more older people are taking up instruments and putting themselves through music exams. James Peak wants to find out some of the reasons why. He speaks to Pakinson's sufferer Carroll who has started taking piano lessons with composer and music teacher Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya in an attempt to control the symptoms of the disease. First broadcast on Making the Grade, 10 January 2017.

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