This has been contested by some but I fear I fell victim to this effect during the Covid lockdowns. I’d long thought I might be a good piano player if only I had a piano on which to hone my innate skills. But when I bought a piano and started to practise, what I quickly learnt was not a Chopin etude or Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto, but a hard lesson: I am rubbish at the piano.
