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How to maintain musical identity when physical ability declines

My aging hands can't play guitar like they used to and I've been a musician for forty years and don't know who I am if I can't make music the way I always have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gradual loss of technical capacity challenges the core identity of lifelong musicians and demands redefinition of artistic self-worth.

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