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The left handed pianist Christopher Seed has arrived at Kottayam to carry on music grade and diploma examination in MCBS Cristone Media,Thellakom. Cristone Media is one of the leading institute of arts and communication in Kottayam District, Kerala. It is the approved exam centre of ABRSM (The Assossiated Board of Royal Schools of Music), London. Fr.Xavier Kunnumpuram who belongs to MCBS (Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament) congregation is the founder and director of Cristone Media.

Christopher Seed and Fr.Xavier Kunnumpuram MCBS.

Christopher Seed is an international concert pianist who can play piano both normally and in mirror image. In 1997 he commissioned the Dutch firm Poletti and Tuinman Fortepiano Makers to build the world's first left-handed piano. It is a complete mirror image of a normal piano with the high notes on the left and the low notes on the right. The lid opens the other way as well so Chris performs on the right side of the stage (as seen by the audience) and the pedals are reversed.

Fr.Xavier Kunnumpuram MCBS, director of Cristone Media and Fr. Francis Kodiyan, prvincial superior of MCBS Emmaus Province with Christopher Seed.

Being left-handed and with the piano reversed, Chris can now play more of the melodic and elaborate parts with his dominant hand, which he feels not only gives him a physical advantage but also a more instinctive way of playing. He was an accomplished pianist and public performer playing right-handed but he was sure he could do even better if he started to read music and play in the way his brain was naturally working. (his music still runs from left to right as normal but he reverses the base and treble lines).
He got a chance to test out his theory using an electronic keyboard with a special device to reverse the keyboard direction. He found he could play in reverse instinctively and very quickly became more comfortable playing that way. That was what spurred him on to get his unique piano made.

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