I have a problem. I am a pianist, having played the piano for the past 10 years. However, recently (i.e. in the past 2 years or so) I have developed a sort of "stammer" when sight-reading - I seem to have the urge to play each chord or bar at least 3 times before moving on to the next passage. I also seem unable to stop this from happening, no matter how much I tell myself to "play the next bit without repeating". This problem is extremely annoying - I am currently preparing for grade 7 (UK) and learning Handel's Allemande is proving very difficult and time-consuming. I also play percussion and tuba, and curiously, I don't experience the "stutter" when sight-reading on either tuba or any percussion instrument - only piano. Has anyone else experienced, or come across, this problem? And if so, how exactly did you stamp it out? Yours in desperation, Ed Potter:)