At my piano lesson tonight, I noticed what looked like a streak of blood on one of the keys. The next thing I noticed was that the tip of my right index finger was bleeding — apparently a paper cut from a sheet of music, although I didn’t feel anything at the time.
I didn’t want to ruin the piano so I stopped playing and tried to get everything cleaned up.
I asked my teacher, “If you’re playing a concert and you start bleeding, what should you do? Just keep going?”
“Yes.”
“What if in addition to being a pianist, you’re also a hemophiliac and you might die? Would that alter your advice?”
“Are you a hemophiliac?”
“Fortunately, no.”