Jeri, I am certainly not a brilliant musician (I'm reasonably competent in local sessions but no more than that) but I've tended to be able to work out the basics of instruments quite quickly especially when I was younger. Sometimes it would take hours rather than minutes to get that far - I wish that I had of known somebody willing to lend me a set of pipes or a brass instrument for a day at that time.

I am older now and a lot slower at picking things up than I was but my fingers are still quite precious to me even though they they have minds of there own and can be very stubborn little creatures at times!

Jon