There are people here; there are even musicians. I gave up looking for people to play with a few years ago. At a time when I was particularly interested in French chansons, I posted a notice looking for people to accompany. Well, my name happens to be a man's name in English but a woman's in French, and a couple of women called and were somewhat taken aback (and not pleased) to find out I was a man.

Another thing that happened is when I met a couple of people, they asked to copy some of my sheet music and I allowed them to do it (something I don't do anymore) and I never heard from them again.

A couple of people that I played music with occasionally have married and had children and one of them moved away.

Eventually, I just stopped looking for people to play with. For a long time, I haven't had the money to go to clubs, even if I had the desire to.

For a very long time, my playing ability lagged behind my knowledge about music. It's been catching up in recent years. Playing in bands in school past me by. I just plain wasn't good enough at the time.

At present, I have few social contacts, let alone contacts with other musicians who like the same kinds of music.

My goal at the moment is to somehow scrape together the equipment I'd need to film myself and put up a video on YouTube, rather than trying to find other people to play with.