several years lessons on the clarinet,and played in school band....this allowed me to sneak into folk music sideways by picking up the recorder pretty quickly. Then one brief lesson on how to chord a dulcimer.

(oh, yes..ONE guitar lesson from a joker ..."here, put your fingers like this...that's called a 'barred F', practice that and I'll show you more." Probably why I took up the autoharp.)