well, i think i might have learned recorder in school, and xylephone, but what i really remember is being 5 years old and going down the block to learn guitar. The scary thing is that when I took up guitar lessons age 15, it was the same guitar - so far as i remember. see, there were these stickers we'd put on the neck so i'd know where notes were.... but maybe I misremember. hard to think of a 5-year-old me playing a big people's guitar...