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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (74423)	2/15/2000 11:15:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I fear my wife thinks the same of my hammered dulcimer, which I'm still learning and even I have to admit is not yet as nice to listen to as some of the other instruments I play a lot better. But she had better not complain too much, or I'll pull out the Bagpipe set I inherited, which is the next instrument I intend to master after the HD! So keep in mind, there could be worse things than drum sets and electric guitars!

To: Rambi who wrote (74423)	2/16/2000 12:17:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hmmmm . . . I was thinking more of a violin or classical guitar being practiced upon softly in the background, adding texture from a corner of the living room while I did my homework at the dining room table. I am not very conservative in general, but do generally agree that electric instruments being played badly at high volume with distortion do belong more in the garage or basement. Before I left there was discussion of some sort of article or research about how even older children's brains are not developed in the way we perceive them to be, that they are still really immature. Can anyone cite it for me again? I know that my daughter looks big enough to make decisions that she does not have the perspective to make very well. I am relieved to say, though, that she reported that nothing much really happens in the closet in seven minutes! Wonderful writing as usual, Penni . . . "driving the ivories literally under their fingernails"! I loved that.