Do U play or want to learn an instrument

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Do U play or want to learn an instrument
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Mon, 04-10-2006 - 4:07pm

Have you ever taken lessons?

Which instrument can you play (doesn't matter how well)

Which would you like to learn how to play?

Are any of your children learning to play an instrument?

Do your parents play an instrument?

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Wed, 04-12-2006 - 5:24pm

Have you ever taken lessons? === piano, from Sr. M. Merelda, from the age of 9 through my senior year in high school

Which instrument can you play (doesn't matter how well) === piano, but not well at all. I don't have a piano and don't practise but I could probably pick it back up again if we did have a piano... And I taught myself a few chords on the Spanish guitar by watching a program on PBS back in the 70s (but being tone deaf, I couldn't TUNE the guitar...)...

Which would you like to learn how to play? === Mother always wanted me to learn teh harp but that wasn't my kind of instrument. In high school, I wanted French Horn but the auditions for band assigned me to clarinet (basically the instrument they assigend to nearly everyone who ws borderline tone-deaaaf, like me!) so I didn't take any...

Are any of your children learning to play an instrument? === no kids

Do your parents play an instrument? === not that I know of (they died over 40 years ago so I can't ask either), but they did like music (Dad had a lot of old 78 opera albums)




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Wed, 04-12-2006 - 5:59pm
honky tonk and blues....two of my favorite genres !!! what a fun way to spend with your dad :O)


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Wed, 04-12-2006 - 10:20pm
Have you ever taken lessons? Yes

Which instrument can you play (doesn't matter how well) Guitar and keyboard/piano


Which would you like to learn how to play? I'd like to be able to play "classical" piano


Are any of your children learning to play an instrument? No yet, but I'm hoping to start her in piano lessons this summer.


Do your parents play an instrument? Mother played piano. Dad played recorder for a short time, but I don't think he does anymore.

Carolyn

 


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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 12:32am

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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 4:41am
Oh katherine, thank you for sharing that.... extremely interesting.... how did you get hooked on that particular instrument?
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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 4:43am
isn't that something to be Assigned an instrument that you have no interest in learning....who knows maybe you would have bee a famous french horn player by now
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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 4:44am
What stops you from learning the classical piano now then?
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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 7:52am
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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 8:01am

I have never taken lessons. :(

I can't play any instrument, except my sons little tikes piano. Which, by the way, sounds very good to me. he he

I would love to play the violin.

My children don't play any instruments yet. Well...they do play the drums and harmonica at times when I sure could use some quiet.

My parents don't play any instruments--so I think that is why it wasn't a big deal that me or any of my brothers or sisters learn to play an instrument. I will change that pattern with my kids. :) :)

 

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Thu, 04-13-2006 - 8:32am
LOL yes that's probably it.