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I Play Music

i had lessons for 8 years. I have played in front of 350+ people when i was 4 years old at my piano teachers church at a christmas mass. we played a duet of silent night together. I started to write music when I was 13 and stopped suddenly - I now enjoy my keyboard and am starting to play again after all these years - . I have graduated from the English school of music - first grade (back when i was 10 years old). i love music and don't know why i stayed away so long. I have had friends who after talking me into jamming with them ask me to be in bands- . Anyway - i love to play music and listen to it.

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UncleJlovesbrazil · 61-69, M

I enjoy playing keyboards. Believe it or not, my first instrument was the accordion! It was purchased for my sister but she never showed any interested so it passed to my little sister. she took lessons for a while but got sick so couldn't continue with it.
It sat around for a while until I just picked it up and started fooling around with it and within an hour, I had worked out a little tune on it.
In time, I began playing hymns on it and played for church shortly thereafter.
I can play in three main keys and can play all of them with practice.
I took lessons for a while but never got used to it. Once my ear picked up the tune, I'd loose all concentration on the notes so I'd get lost in the music.
We had an old reed organ (pump) which I enjoyed playing. There was a piano at the boarding school I attended for several years and would play it from time to time.
In third grade then again in seventh, I took up the clarinet but hated it. I never again touched a reed instrument, though I enjoyed listening to Henry Questa from the Lawrence Welk show as well as others. My thought is the bassoon and the oboe are the hardest to get music out of.
I still pay keyboards and the accordion regularly, all by ear! The only note I recognize is middle "C". Beyond that, I'm lost! JK