Walter Meyer wrote:

>Perhaps someone can recognize a Burgess novel I once read in which a
>pianist for silent films, too drunk again to show up for work, in a
>desperate attempt to salvage his job, teaches the rudiments of music and
>piano playing to his daughter in one hour ...

It is called The Pianoplayer, or maybe The Pianoplayers.  Highly
recommended, by me anyway.

Larry Blaine