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He played nicely on the guitar but had a very limited notions in Western Harmony. In order to test his natural gifts, I asked him to write soma unaccompanied melodies for our first lesson. One of the short tunes he wrote struck me by its originality, and I conceived the melody. I prepared for him five or six different versions, but he was so surprised by all the new possibilities suddenly opened before him, that I realized it was better to teach him in a more traditional way. But the tune remained in my mind and I went on working on it alone, for my own sake. From this came out, after some weeks of work, this set of variations. When I played them to him, he was flattered but a bit embarrassed too, for he could hardly grasp how from his simple tune one could arrive at such a complex composition. In fact, his tune was not simple at all, on the contrary: it contained rich potential for modal and tonal interpretations of which he was not aware when he wrote the tune. He studied with rather seriously during half a year, and stopped coming when he was called up for the army, and I didn't see him since. Before his conscription, I had the occasion to invite him to a concert in Sayon, where Liat Yaniv played, for the first time, these variations. He arrived with his father, and they seemed happy to hear my piece. 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