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If you do release it please post it here, because I’ve been trying to get back into playing piano after more than a decade of not. Reading the music is a skill that has definitely atrophied for me. I’m sure there’s many others here beyond me who would love to see what you’ve made!

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I am in the exact same situation (getting back into playing piano after more than a decade of not doing it). But rn, it is just a very rough proof of concept I am making in pygame, I might make something more proper with actual decent code quality if it actually works, but I thought the same about an app I made to limit keyboard usage on pc (was having some hand health problems), which worked pretty well, but I never ended up making and releasing a better version of it. But maybe

I wish you luck!

I also play the saxophone but … the problem with that one is I live in an apartment building with thin walls and can’t, exactly, bang away like I can on a keyboard with headphones. In either case the music reading is useful.

My mother, a piano teacher herself, would of course just tell me to do more scales but we can make this better with technology now can’t we.

I've posted this elsewhere in this thread, but I'm making a webapp focused on just sight reading: https://www.babeloop.com

It works well on mobile so you can take it wherever. I made it for my kids who were struggling a little with non-treble clefs, and they passed their exams this June!

Interested in any feedback.

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