My very first music teacher was Sandy Foster. She lived up the street from me and I played at her house all the time with her
4 girls. She played the piano and sang at her church. I always loved Sandy but I didn't like the music lessons because I had a lot of trouble learning to read the notes. I don't think I took more than a month's worth of lessons.

My violin teacher was my first "real" music teacher. His name was Lee Copenhaver. He is the one who really taught me to read music and to play my first instrument. God love the man, I can remember standing in front of the music stand in his cubby hole of a music room and him screaming at me at the top of his lungs....CAN'T YOU HEAR OUT OF TUNE YOU ARE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! LOL....nope, at age 8, I really couldn't! The man had the patience of a saint! It wasn't that I didn't like him but more like he scared me.

Michelle