Is it genetic? I was adopted as an infant and raised by wonderful people who were very unmusical. My father would occasionally sit down at a piano. The sound was like an off-key upright on Saturday night at the old folks home. No one else had any particular interest in music, yet I was driven toward it all my life. At the age of 61, I finally met my biological Mother who, it turns out, had played piano and had loved music her life long, as had all of her brothers and sisters. Both my boys love it and one has had his own band for nearly ten years. Nature, or nurture?