ONE-handed concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy dropped into Swindon meet brave toddler Morgan Sharpe.
Nicholas performed at a charity concert at New College to raise money for the charity that has helped little Morgan.
The pianist agreed to play because Alan Holmes, from Holmes Music, in Faringdon Road, wrote to him about his grandson Morgan, three, of Middleleaze, who has fought all his life against a debilitating disease.
He has Goldenhar Syndrome, which is an umbrella term for a range of abnormalities. In Morgan’s case, he has a missing ear, a missing eye, for which he has a prosthetic replacement, a permanent tracheotomy, which is a incision in his windpipe to keep it open, butterfly vertebrae and fluid in the ventricles of his brain.
Nicholas was touched by Morgan’s plight.
The pianist was born with a shortened right arm which ends in a stump, but he went on to study at the Royal College of Music and play recitals all over the UK.
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