Re: How Many Musicians Are Out There

[Anonymous]

I played violin (and some cello) from about the third grade on. I still have my violin, but it got damaged by heat and humidity and it won’t stay in tune. I never really considered myself a musician because I can’t improvise; I can’t play by ear and none of it really comes naturally to me. I think I stayed with it so long because it was a relatively easy grade to get, and I made a lot of friends who were ‘special’ in their own ways. We got along really well–and still do to this very day.

I’ve always been envious of people who could pick up an instrument and sound better than I could after years and years of lessons and practice.

I did get to go to Europe with a large orchestra of teenagers, which was fun, but kind of a joke musically speaking. I liked it because the group I was in was large enough that I could fake my way through it. :p

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