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Author: Jim
Date: 2002-09-21 17:25
I think I am going to cry.... not really, but thought I would share this. Kind of on topic, but what the heck.
I have spent the morning going through old photo's and stuff, and came across a kindergarten report card from 1952.
The teacher wrote:
"Marvin gets a great deal of enjoyment out of music."
And here I am again at 55 starting out again to learn the clarinet. If I had only listened to my teachers, way back then. <G>
Jim
PS Only my wife can call me Marvin now. 
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-09-21 18:03
Which Triangle did YOU play? Soprano or Bass? I played the Blocks.
Bob A
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-09-21 18:46
Ah, yeeees... I remember. I played the Clackers - dressed as a daffodil. What a small world - and so many memories. If only I had listened to my teachers throughout my life. Today I play clinkers and act like a daffodil.
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-09-21 19:48
Remember trying to find zippers in the suits Mom made for pageants?
I wouldn't worry too much about misspent youth, my earliest report
cards made passing mention of Napolean and Global conquest...
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Author: Metalclarinetgigman
Date: 2002-09-21 23:30
I played the piccolo & recorder very badly at school I played a concert with the school recorder and percussion band on the stage at Lancaster Town Hall(UK) after we all came off stage our music teacher said that someone was playing badly, he did not say who but I knew he meant me, when I got onstage I was terrified, I played the three tunes perfectly but I was so uptight my fingers would not move so I did it all on one note! The piccalo did not last long, my little brother had come across it thought it was a good game to take all the pads off. I gave up playing anything until I was about eighteen, then I heard New Orleans Jazz, I was hooked on the clarinet, I still am and I'm sixty two.
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2002-09-22 05:08
I was told in 6th grade that I had no singing ability (by a "new" music teacher) and in 3rd grade that I had no artistic ability by the art teacher. I've been singing in choirs for 35 years, and design custom wood work and graphics (logos, shirts, publications etc.) Good thing I never listened to either of them!
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-09-23 00:30
Sounds like a case of, "Those that can't do, disembowel."
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-09-23 13:56
I was the best autoharp player in elementary school.....never touched a stringed instrument again after that, however....go figure.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-09-23 17:54
Elementary school rhythm band was massive trauma. The big guys ran in and grabbed the drums, which came in first and dropped out last (and made the most noise). The wimps lined up in alphabetical order and got tambourines, triangles, wood blocks and tiny cymbals. The cymbals came in last and dropped out first, and you worked your way forward one instrument each week.
Since I was a wimp, and near the end of the alphabet, I always started out on cymbals, and the semester was over before I got to play the drums. Naturally, everthing started over again the next semester. Who says little kids don't have heartbreak.
I got a small revenge, though. I was given a recorder when I was in the 4th grade. The 6th graders got to play pitched instruments (recorders, Flutaphones, ocarinas, etc.), and the recorder was numero uno. I too the recorder into the principal's office and told her to keep it for me until the 6th grade, thus insuring I would be the one who came in first and dropped out last, at least once. Imagine, though, having to plot and wait two years at that age to get your turn.
In 7th grade, it was a new school and introduction to the clarinet.
Ken Shaw
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