My dad plays. I learnt piano and violin, but it never quite clicked. And I could pick out a tune roughly on the guitar, but I couldn't really play, but it felt right. So I got a guitar as an Xmas present in my first year at uni.

And when I started folk music, and took up the violin again, and we got our own piano, I found that what really hadn't clicked had been the way of teaching and working on "grades". Being forced to practice every day on music you don't really enjoy made it a chore; playing music you like every day bcos you want to is very different...

Graham.