It was in Hämeenlinna, when he was seven, that his aunt Julia was brought in to give him piano lessons on the family's upright instrument, rapping him on the knuckles whenever he played a wrong note.
Det var i Hämeenlinna, da han var syv år gammel, at hans tante Julia blev tilkaldt for at give ham klaverundervisning på familiens opretstående instrument og slog ham over fingrene, hver gang han spillede forkert.