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Author: FT
Date: 2002-04-07 00:52
It seems to me like musicians will always marrie musicians. And like, almost every musician that I know of, are married to a musician. Are you married to a musician too????
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Author: Mitch A
Date: 2002-04-07 01:28
Yes I am, but we became musicians after we married.
Well, we met at a cast party. We worked at different theaters (amature playhouses). We had each just finished a show and I was invited to her cast party. We have since perfomed together in four musicals (singing on stage) That was 18 years ago..... Now that the kids are older, we perform in a community band together. She introduced me to this BB.
Mitch
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Author: Kirk
Date: 2002-04-07 02:02
No, but my wife is !! LOL, but seriously she played in her high school band but stopped after graduation.
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-04-07 03:01
My parents are both married to musicians and both had musicians for children (slaves too.)
Okay, teens and bachelor(ette)s get in on this: How many people are RELATED to a musician?
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Author: Bb(AGAIN!)
Date: 2002-04-07 03:16
Everybody in my family plays piano: my two cousins from my dad's side(piano), my dad's sister(piano), my mom(piano), my sister(flute) my dad's brother (guitar), My cousin from my mom's side (violin) and his sister (piano, TOO!!!!) my dad's other sister(recorder, lol)
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Author: Bb
Date: 2002-04-07 03:16
Everybody in my family plays piano: my two cousins from my dad's side(piano), my dad's sister(piano), my mom(piano), my sister(flute) my dad's brother (guitar), My cousin from my mom's side (violin) and his sister (piano, TOO!!!!) my dad's other sister(recorder, lol)
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Author: Bb
Date: 2002-04-07 03:18
sorry for posting it twice!!!!!!!! (well, it's three times now, lol)
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2002-04-07 03:33
Yes, I play clarinet (makes sense, this is a clarinet board) and she is a pianist. We both are singers and have sung in college, community and church choirs for around 30 years now. While we have played together, it is the singing that we share. I've managed to broaden her tastes into big band/ standards/ jazz, but it is classical music that we enjoy together the most. We each have a 10 disk CD changer in our vehicles, and we argue and compromise over who has which disk at any given time. Its probably sharing music as well as some other things that has kept us married for 28 years (in June) and counting!
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Author: william
Date: 2002-04-07 15:48
Another, "No, but my wife is" kind of relationship. I am lucky that my wife likes listening to music, puts up with all of my practicing (and personal commentarty when the notes prove too challeging) and regularily attends my band and symphony concerts. Her only complaint, however, is that every Saturday night, I get to go out and have "all that fun" playing gigs at clubs, weddings, parties, shows, etc. When I mention the word "work" she just doesn't seem to understand. But overall, I am lucky to have the kind of wife who is supportive of my musical efforts and who recently "OKed" my recent aquistion of a new Buffet Prestige low C bass clarinet (along with my acceptance of new "honey dew" household gigs--opps, I mean work.) Good Spousal MusicMaking!!!!! Music makes the world go 'round--or is that "love"??
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-04-07 18:02
I try to play anything I can get my hands on (successful with some), and my wife plays piano (quite well) and guitar. My first wife (late) was an excellent pianist. One of her best pieces was the Khatchaturian Concerto. Both singers, both altos. Hmmm.... My wife and I both sing in a Community Choir.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-04-07 22:43
In Ron's family of five:
Wife - 'cello, piano
Ron - clarinet, sax(es), cornet
#1 son - trumpet, guitar
#2 son - clarinet (presently inactive)
#3 son - percussion
No other musicians in family history on either side :
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-04-07 23:53
Nope. My wife is essentially tone deaf - she doesn't really hear any difference between a cheap radio and an expensive stereo, or a high school band and the New York Symphony.
But I love her anyway!
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Author: willie
Date: 2002-04-07 23:53
My stepfather was a professional musician going clear back to the 20s. My mom played the trap set professionaly. I didn't know my wife played flute till my daughter started beginners band and I broke out my old liccorice stick. Our son (13) wants to bang drums for KISS and the like (lord help us).
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Author: Laurie H.
Date: 2002-04-08 00:01
I too am married to a wonderful but tone deaf spouse. He can't even tap his toe in rhythm to the radio but he puts up with the hours of practice and has been wonderfully supportive. He is the computer wizard of the family.
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Author: Tim2
Date: 2002-04-08 00:36
My wife is is a musician also. We both sing in church choir. I'm the clarinetist. Are we both musicians??? We both appreciate music but not necessarily the same genres.
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Author: RogerM
Date: 2002-04-08 14:05
My wife plays flute. Met her because her daughter played clarinet with me in the church orchestra. Met her daughter through her husband who came to FSU to get a phD in physics and played t'bone in our church orchestra. He met my wife in the church orchestra in which they both played and met her daughter though her.
Confused?
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Author: Danette
Date: 2002-04-08 18:10
Unmarried, but aside from my sister and a great, great grandfather (who played fiddle) noone in my family plays (or played) an instrument.
My parents used to wonder where the talent came from.
Now I wonder where it went!
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-04-08 18:26
My wife is a musicologist (turned computer specialist). She plays flute, recorder and keyboard. She was living in North Carolina and teaching swarms of recorder students from Friday through Monday. Then she would fly to Philadelphia, where she had a part-time college teaching position (Super_Savers back to back, way back when this was affordable.)
I was living in New York, and we met at a recorder workshop in Ohio. We got together, and I eventually made her mother happy by switching from sin-in-law to son-in-law.
Even better, she's Swedish on both sides, and a genuine blonde. And smart. And with a great ear.
Ken Shaw
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Author: jenna
Date: 2002-04-08 18:50
No musically inclined family members.. immediate or extended.
Been dating a trumpet player (among other things - piano, voice, clarinet) for a couple years now, though, if that counts...
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2002-04-08 19:41
Yes I am married to a musician and it is the first and only relationship that has worked. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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Author: Gary Shiozaki
Date: 2002-04-08 21:02
I played the trumpet through college, and my wife has her music ed degree and played piano. Our son, Kenny, a gifted 10th grader, and plays clarinet in various orchestras in the Los Angeles area.
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Author: Sandra F. H.
Date: 2002-04-09 01:27
Nope! I'm married to an appreciative audience member. ...however, my young sons show much promise for good musicianship.
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Author: Bob Culbreth
Date: 2002-04-09 02:42
Talking about a glutton for punishment, I married another clarinetist who also plays better than I do! If you can't beat 'em you might as well join 'em!!
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Author: Jill
Date: 2002-04-09 03:24
My father was the high school band director--my husband was in the band, too, and then we went to the same college, majoring in music, and it was there that we started dating. He also sings--I accompany on the piano--and we play sax and clarinet duets.
Oh--my parents also started dating in the same college band, playing French horn.
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Author: Betsy
Date: 2002-04-09 18:19
My mom played at the piano and sang. When the time came for me to go to college, I wanted to be a music major. She subtly expressed her lack of support for me many times which stuck throughout my first college experience. I know she was only concerned about my future, but in some ways it does explain why many musicians marry other musicians. They do it for support.
I am married to my first husband, a wonderful guy with lots of great natural singing ability. He is my body guard and roadie at gigs and my chauffuer (sp!?) when those gigs include beer drinking and I love him even though he doesn't want to join the band.
Plus he bought me a clarinet one year for my birthday. Now is that love or what?
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-04-10 00:05
Marriage - let's be blatantly hetrophilic, shall we?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-04-10 01:34
diz wrote:
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> Marriage - let's be blatantly hetrophilic, shall we?
Why certainly we'll be heterophilic. Those of us who are. Perhaps <b>you're</b> the one that needs to expand your definition of marriage ...
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-04-10 02:36
I'm not making assumptions - you seem to have a preconceived notion of what "marriage" means. Perhaps I don't.
And I refuse to be so blasted "PC" that we have to worry about everything said here. If people are going to take some unintended offense at everything said in a public forum then their lives must be very narrow indeed.
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Author: Betsy
Date: 2002-04-10 12:46
Hey, hey, hey now boys and girls! Settle down now. In my opinion and the opinion of many others, once you've decided to stay together for the rest of your life come hell or high water, you're married. Period.
You may not go through the actual ceremony to do so, but the doesn't mean you're not committed and you're not married. Sexual perference has nothing to do with this.
If states legallized all marriages, then there wouldn't be this stupid conversation on this bulletin board.
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