Glad to hear that you and Mrs K are getting over the colds and that snow is
melting and hopefully will just go down in y’all’s collective memories out
there in the Northwest as the Blizzard of ’19 with no more incidents this
season. Thanks for the responses, Peter.
The whys for selecting instruments to play seem to be universal, then. When
I've asked over the years “why the banjo or bagpipes or some other out of the
common place instrument?”, I’ve gotten pretty much the same various replies;
but your story of being 20 years old and getting the instrument lain upon you -
just reinforces what our Mom used to tell us kids growing up, “…be careful what
you say and what you wish for… you might just get it!”
Anyway, we’re all glad that you’re up and about and processing and posting the
great images, Peter. We’re all the better for seeing them. :)
Best regards,
Peter S.
On Feb 19, 2019, at 5:39 PM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
For Peter Stevens: I've been down with a nasty cold the last 10 days, and my
wife was a few days before that. So I'm a bit behind on things. We had plenty
of food, so we just stayed home and waited for the snow to melt. The
strategy was successful. :-)
Thanks for your kind comments on the snow and Monreale cathedral pictures.
As for the significance of the objects and motifs in the Greek vase's
domestic scene, I'm afraid I don't know. I did some internet searching, as I
was curious myself. But I couldn't find anything.
Regarding how kids choose their instrument, often they are attracted to the
sound of the instrument. Sometimes it's how the instrument looks, or how a
person looks while playing it. Sometimes it's that so-and-so plays that
instrument, and I want to be like him or her. Mostly, I think it's that the
child has an innate desire to make music, and that particular instrument's
sound just has an emotional resonance for them. Something inside says: "THIS
is the sound I want to make; this is how I can best express who I am through
music."
How does one choose to play the bassoon? Usually the answer is that you
played clarinet, saxophone or oboe. Your high school band or orchestra
director decided that you should play bassoon, so you did. More rarely, you
started on another instrument, but encountered the bassoon, liked it and
switched to it. Still more rarely, you picked it from the start.
In my case, I had wanted to play the cello when I was a kid. My parents said
no, it's too big. Talked me down to a violin, which I didn't like, and I
didn't stick with it. Years later, I'm in college and conducting an
orchestra for a summer theater. After rehearsal, I'm chatting with the "den
mother" of the orchestra. I told her the cello story. By this time, I figured
that it was much too late to start a string instrument. But I liked the
bassoon's character and it had the same range as the cello. I said, half
jokingly, that if I ever found a bassoon in someone's attic, I'd figure it's
fate and I would learn to play it. She said, "Peter, I have a bassoon in my
attic." I borrowed it, fooled with it myself for a few months, liked it, and
started lessons. At age 20.
--Peter K
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