Bill Pirkle wrote:

>Teachers usually teach standard fingering so students can play music
>fingered in a standard way by the editors.  Piano teachers don't get
>paid by how well the student can improvise but how well they play Bach.
>Chopin used and taught what I might call meta-fingering

Actually, piano teachers do not get paid by how well the students do
anything but show up.

Mimi Ezust