Kitty
Did anybody as a child really want to play the oboe ? My first choice was the fiddle/violin but renting one was an extra $10 a month and since we already had an oboe in the house...

Actually, we had a fiddle in the house too, but at some time in the distant past my mother had felt it would be better to mount it on the wall and fill it with dead flowers rather than let us try to learn to play it.AAugh. The angst of cruel childhood memories. I think I need to go now and e-mail my therapist.