Warms my heart, Margarita!

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some people can actually learn if they're given the right hints. Sarcasm doesn't (at least from my experience) really work.

Just trailing off again- a friend of mine is a fanatic music lover, but- she doesn't know how to hold a note. She sings out of key so badly, it hurts. Whenever anyone brought out a guitar and started singing, she'd be there squawking away like a rusty water pump. We shuddered with every note, but we didn't have the heart to ask her to shut her gob, she enjoyed it too much! Her face lit up, her eyes sparkeled, it would have felt like stealing sweets from a wee one!

In the end, we decided to have a go at teaching her how to use her voice in a not so window-pane-shattering way. It worked! She dropped her pitch a few noteds, and was after a while able to produce some quite nice sounds.

Magpie