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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (55173)	8/23/2002 11:43:31 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That's great. My girls aren't quite that good, but they are more than adequate on the piano. I started on the piano about the same time you did, but switched to trumpet and then, in Jr. High, to French Horn because our music director needed a French Horn player and had too many trumpet players. It was an inspired move -- I loved the Horn and became quite good at it--in my junior and senior years I was selected by competitive auditon for the first chair of the State orchestra, and was offered a full time professional contract, but decided to go to college instead. I had played professionally part-time during college with two local orchestras, but I decided that making it a full time profession had too much danger of taking the fun out of it. I have subsequently added a bunch of other instruments to my repertoire, only three of which I have played regularly in performance (recorder, pipe-and-tabor, and concertina), but the Horn is still my first love.