Gargoyle, she has music in the genes that will rise to the occasion. (I told her she had "arrived" once one of your posts made it to the thread.) Lots of exposure to lots of types, and a high level of music literacy. Just no cash over the years for piano lessons. A conundrum, I know. This is the first grandchild of John Dwyer (Pacific Northwest folksinger) who has been writing to Mudcat. Somewhere around here we have a t-shirt given to him at a grandfather-shower, with a limerick generated for the occasion about a certain curmudgeon who despised all children, except his own grandchild, of course!

I'm pleased with her initiative!

When it comes down to it, what she's lacking is exposure to the neighborhood lady who teaches piano lessons. There is something to be said for that--I had 13 years of lessons that were extremely useful, but probably not the highest calibre. (Especially the one who after lessons always pressed oatmeal cookies on us as we left her house. They tasted like fish and went the way of fish fertilizer, under someone's rose bushes as soon as we were out of sight of the house.)

SRS