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the bills are alive with the sound of music

September 17th, 2011 at 08:19 pm

Within an hour after I shifted $480 to the HELOC--my new goal is to pay $3650 between July 2011 and June 2012--my child came home with a Music Instruction Enrolment Form.

He wants to take music: his options are flute, violin, cello, clarinet, trombone and trumpet. I'd like something we can fit in the car, preferably rentable. He prefers brass, I prefer strings.

I think "yeah it's pricy but Chaplin was an impoverished actor when he started playing violin. Louis Armstrong was in a home for boys and he learned the trumpet. Fats Waller played piano."

So we'll discuss it this weekend. I'd like for him to visit a music store to try each of the instruments...



See? Men can look adorable playing strings.

1 Responses to “the bills are alive with the sound of music”

  1. LuckyRobin Says:
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    As a violin and viola player, I would warn against trying to make a kid play an instrument he doesn't want to play as it almost always backfires. (Mom forced me to play organ when I wanted to play piano and I quit after a year. I hated it.) There were so many kids who dropped out of orchestra when I was a kid because their parents forced them to play violin ("Just stick with it for a year,") when they wanted to be in band instead, and quite a few who were miserable through middle school and refused to take any music in high school at all. A kid really has to be interested to stick with any instrument. If it's one they don't want to play in the first place, well...you're stuck with an expensive instrument with half the resale value you spent on it and a kid who is down on music.

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