One of the loudest protests I'd ever heard, came from a 13-year old piano student who screamed at the top of her lungs on the doorstep of my house. Her mother was trying to clip her overgrown fingernails on the eve of a Middle School dance, and the teen loathed the idea of losing her long adorned nails.
In the "short" term the student complied with my requirement to have the pads of her fingers exposed for piano playing, but once high school rolled around, it was a different story.
