Klarinet Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2005/12

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Back on the Airwaves
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 14:07:55 -0500


Walter Grabner wrote,
>My Mom had a massive stroke over two weeks ago,
>and passed away just before Thanksgiving.
. . .
>As the only non-playing person in a family of
>musicians, we must have tried her patience from
>time to time, but she never complained.

Walter, I'm very sorry to hear about your mother. As young beginners, we
must all try the patience of our families--the musicians as well as the
non-musicians. It says something about the strength of the bond between
parents and children that so many moms and dads not only tolerate but
encourage their kids through those early days of monkey noises.

Before I was completely up on my hind legs, my mom used to sit me down on
the kitchen floor with an old stewpot upside down on the floor in front of
me, hand me a wooden spoon and encourage me to "accompany" her when she
sang! I can still remember flailing away at that pan with great
enthusiasm. (That was the beginning of the timeline that led, years later,
to the grade school band teacher telling me, "Girls don't play the drums.")
Once, as an adult, I asked Mom how in the world she could stand to cook,
let alone sing, with the ungodly racket a toddler must have made, banging
on that pan. She grinned and said, "Well, you notice I didn't give you a
*metal* spoon!"

Lelia Loban

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