Many, many years ago my brother was buying a guitar, in the excitement I felt certain that I wanted one too and asked Dad and Mom if I could get one as well! They said yes and soon I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of my brand new child’s guitar and when it arrived I had the time of my life playing it.......for awhile! It wasn't long before I realized it was only a passing fancy, while I would enjoy playing it I didn't know how and the instruction book we ordered didn't come! By this time though I didn't really pursue getting another one, I had enjoyed it for awhile and that was it. Also, the guitar was VERY BADLY out of tune and sense no one in our family knew how to play any musical instruments I just let it go!
I was sadly very content to just forget about my guitar and not take any pride in owning one, after all, I thought, I had always REALLY wanted to know how to play piano so as soon as I got one I was sure I would play that faithfully! Frankly, it wouldn't have happened! It wasn't until a few months ago that I really remembered my guitar and decided to try an' learn to play it, but by this time I was way too big for it and I thought of purchasing a new one! However circumstances where such that it wasn't possible at the moment, but one of my brothers (A different one than afore mentioned) had learned to play the guitar and he bought a book for one of my brothers and I to learn with! (He had purchased one many years ago for a Christmas present for us once, but looking at it now he said that he didn't like it and got another one) I really wanted to please my brother so I decided that I would learn how to play no matter what size my guitar was. I started to learn again and this time I started to really understand how everything worked and was amazed at how fast I was able to catch on to the whole thing, I had always thought it would be much harder! My brother is letting me use his guitar (It's much bigger) and I'm taking great delight in learning new things about playing it, even though it can be frustrating at times!
Once I am completely done learning guitar I have a few more instruments I would like to learn! Piano, Violin, Banjo and possibly Harp (Not necessarily in that order), for now I'm planning on sticking to non-month pieces so that I can sing and play at the same time sense I really like singing! For now though I'm just playing guitar and maybe in a few years I'll have concurred a couple more instruments!
~HLM
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