Seven years of piano lessons. (I think this is about the time I quit.) I could read music but I hated to practice. End result? I could play Sentimental Journey. Badly. Now I can't even play that.
* I didn't coin this phrase. The great Danish pianist and comedian Victor Borge did.
Sentimental Journey was the first (and only) song I learned on the clarinet. Someone must have written it to torment parents.
ReplyDeleteI struggled through a couple of years on clarinet, too.
DeleteHey, that's our TV from around '56 in the background!
ReplyDeleteAlso I note that at 43f you are roughly 60 degrees warmer than me.
I left the old black-and-white tv in. I thought it would be interesting to some.
DeleteMy piano playing experience is very similar to yours, only I can still still play the first ten bars or so of Mood Indigo--it generally takes sixteen to make a complete melody. We had the same piano teacher. I suspect many of her former students will tell the same story.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing. I doubt she ever assigned either Sentimental Journey or Mood Indigo to us!
DeleteI always wished I'd learned a musical instrument, but I never got around to it. I don't think I have any musical ability.
ReplyDeleteBruce, you are a man for alll seasons.
ReplyDeleteI took 8 years of lessons & if I work REALLY REALLY hard I could probably play a song - but mostly I use it to practice my music for choir :)
ReplyDeleteDo you wish you could play now? Like Hugh Laurie maybe? That would be fun, I think.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah.
DeleteHow many of us regret having abandoned the piano? Nice to see a picture of you as a music student.
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