I read this one back in the late 60's. A retired musician gets a robot butler to help out around the house. The robot is curious about music, so the retired musician teaches the robot how to play piano. The robot learns really fast, playing perfectly within a few hours. At the end, the robot quits playing, saying something along the lines of, "For me, it's easy. I don't think it's meant to be easy." I'm pretty sure it's not Asimov or Simak, but I could be wrong. It was in a textbook, a collection of stories in my elementary school English class. It stood out to me because it was the only science fiction story in the book (yes, I was a geek even back then.)
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