Learning to play piano has been a dream of mine ever since I was a little girl growing up in a little church out in the country.
The church pianist would play every Sunday morning and I would watch her intently. I never had access to a piano other than in that little church. When no one was looking, or no one was around, I would tiptoe up to this stage and start to tickle the ivories. I didn’t know what I was playing, but to me, it just made a melody and a little bit of harmony, and I made up my songs.
I hear things very differently as a person who is deaf wears a cochlear implant. Long ago, I had more typical hearing. With a cochlear implant, my brain is still learning to process some of the higher frequency sounds that my ear has been deaf to for at least 25 years. When I hear those sounds, often times, to me, they sound off key only because I’m not familiar with those sounds as I used to be. My brain is having to become reoriented with what I am hearing.
Learning how to play the piano is my way of being able to understand high frequency sounds and try to put them together where they can make music. Maybe someday I’ll be brave enough to put together a piano solo for you. But right now, I’m just going to peck away. [Plays random piano notes.]
Lipreading Mom 
I don’t play now as unfortunately I fell out of love playing. But I still do like to listen. But like you, since having the cochlear implant, I don’t hear the piano as I remember. But that’s with all notes right now. As well as learning to hear the high notes.
From listening to you play the low notes since my last attempt with an app last year, I am noticing the low notes slightly for the better. So maybe it is time for me to try my piano music I have on CDs.
Love this! Music is always a blessing.