I used to play keyboards (trained on a Hammond organ), a legacy brass instrument we had around the house that my dad called a "baritone" but was a variety of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonium]euphonium, and the recorder. I am decades out of practice with all three, though.
The sad thing is my father's side of the family is incredibly musical -- witness my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Schroeck]uncle and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_November]aunt. But I'm adopted, and got none of that talent. My musical ability was entirely due to dint of effort and rote and vanished when I stopped practicing, unlike every genetic Schroeck, who gain and keep musical abilities with an appalling casualness.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
The sad thing is my father's side of the family is incredibly musical -- witness my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Schroeck]uncle and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_November]aunt. But I'm adopted, and got none of that talent. My musical ability was entirely due to dint of effort and rote and vanished when I stopped practicing, unlike every genetic Schroeck, who gain and keep musical abilities with an appalling casualness.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.