I saw an excellent documentry on Michael Houstoun in the weekend. He is a NZ concert pianist, probably our best and one of the top players in the world. One of the things he is known for is performing all of Beetovens 32 sonatas in concert in the space of about 3 weeks - that's like 800 pages of music.

About 6 years ago he developed a career stopping condition that strikes some musicians. He lost fine control of his right hand. From what I remember what happened was the parts of the brain that controlled his 3rd and 4th finger got so developed they overlapped i.e. the signals from his brain controlling those fingers ended up going to both fingers. This should have ended his career, but since then he has re-trained his hand and relearnt control.

Anyone else see this?