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My love affair with music.
Today's FGR challenge is right up my alley. Of all my interests, the longest sustained relationship I have is with music. It started very early. During my first ten years or so my family was pretty much dirt poor, so family entertainment was going on endless drives in the country. To pass the time on these drives, we would sing for hours. My first radio was a homemade crystal radio that I made with my father when I was six or seven. Instead of speakers, the sound came out of a set of surplus WWII headphones.
I took violin and trumpet in elementary school, but never really learned to play either one. I took up the guitar when I started high school; it seemed like a good way to meet girls. I was in numerous bands during high school and university, but the high point came when I was doing a year abroad program in Japan and got drafted into The Noise Band, not as a guitarist, but as the singer. That was the last time I was in a formal band. I've continued to play, picking up the bass, harmonica, fiddle, recorder and penny whistle to varying degrees on the way. Of course, these days most of the music I make is done on the computer with loops and softsynths (although I can't play keyboards to save my life.) This mandolin is my latest instrument -- I got it for my birthday two years ago and I'm still a complete newbie on it.
81 of 365
My love affair with music.
Today's FGR challenge is right up my alley. Of all my interests, the longest sustained relationship I have is with music. It started very early. During my first ten years or so my family was pretty much dirt poor, so family entertainment was going on endless drives in the country. To pass the time on these drives, we would sing for hours. My first radio was a homemade crystal radio that I made with my father when I was six or seven. Instead of speakers, the sound came out of a set of surplus WWII headphones.
I took violin and trumpet in elementary school, but never really learned to play either one. I took up the guitar when I started high school; it seemed like a good way to meet girls. I was in numerous bands during high school and university, but the high point came when I was doing a year abroad program in Japan and got drafted into The Noise Band, not as a guitarist, but as the singer. That was the last time I was in a formal band. I've continued to play, picking up the bass, harmonica, fiddle, recorder and penny whistle to varying degrees on the way. Of course, these days most of the music I make is done on the computer with loops and softsynths (although I can't play keyboards to save my life.) This mandolin is my latest instrument -- I got it for my birthday two years ago and I'm still a complete newbie on it.