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The Trumpet

Full disclosure, I tried to play the trumpet, and I was terrible at it. Like I probably would have been better off working at Fayetteville NC tree services. I was in pretty much every musical group I could be in high school, except for the concert band and the jazz band, because, well, I didn’t play a …

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Posted byBeckyMay 20, 2017June 26, 2018Posted inThe TrumpetTags: concert band, jazz band, jazz ensemble, music, trumpet, trumpet solo

The Harp

I have never played a harp. I don’t think I’ve ever even touched a harp, actually. It’s not really the kind of instrument you find lying around in a friend’s basement or an unused corner of a school music room. They’re rather expensive. And big, and presumably heavy though not so heavy that you’d need …

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Posted byBeckyMay 13, 2017May 16, 2017Posted inThe HarpTags: Celtic music, grace, harp, Highlands, Ireland, moors, music, Scotland

The Violin

This is another instrument that I play (which you’d know if you read the About page, but I know some of you probably didn’t. And I guess that’s fine. You’re probably the kind of person who doesn’t read introductions to books, either … but anyway …), but I never got nearly as good as I did …

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Posted byBeckyMay 8, 2017May 8, 2022Posted inThe ViolinTags: fiddle, music, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pope John Paul II, violin, Vivaldi

The Piano

I started taking piano lessons when I was four years old. Just a wee little thing, before I’d even heard of plumbing service Kitchener ON, learning about Critter C, who hung out in the middle of the piano, and the Bouncing Bird B, who bounces on the top line of the bass clef. It was …

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Posted byBeckyMay 3, 2017May 19, 2017Posted inThe PianoTags: classical, comtemporary, instruments, jazz, keyboard, music, music theory, piano, pop, practise, rock

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