On what instrument did you start playing music? Do you still play that instrument??
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Grandma was a piano teacher who sat us in her lap before we could walk or talk and hammer out simple tunes with our little baby fingers. Lessons were mandatory by age four, but I was never any good at it. The school board bought us a set of band instruments in the sixth grade and I went straight at the tenor sax. I wasn't any good at that either, but i wanted it, but not to earn a living with it. i love playing music with other people in front of an audience.
Since college, I've only played on street corners, in drum circles or open jams. When my career in the life sciences tanked in the mid 80's, music kept me alive in the streets until I could get a leg up in the gem and mineral trade and make ends meet better.
Today, my principal instrument is a curved soprano sax backed by a soprano recorder and djembe. Sometimes i can get on a keyboard and it will play me, but i still can't play it. Same with a guitar. I've had really well tuned guitars handed to me that just flew under my fingers until i had ripped the pads off all my fingertips, but i can't consciously play the thing. I can only do that with saxes and flutes and I still think I suck at it, but I have a lot of people fooled into thinking otherwise and i have moments now and then when I impress myself.