I am so very sorry, Steve, that in my haste to post I brought back grammar-school memories. Never happened in school here in what some mudcatter calls Canuckistan. Shan't do it again. :) Not on here much, though it's most of the time I do spend online. Loved the OP, the first paragraph of which could have been me, 'tho with a different bunch of instruments. Current challenge: 5-string banjo. No real hope there, but a real hoot.
I'll die happy if I can make my tenor sound half as nice as Will Fly!

keep on pickin'
and read Levitin!!!!
dennis