I chose my two favourites because they only did recorder lessons at school and I wanted to be better than my sister, and I took up the drums so I could make a loud noise during parades..... The violin I took up because it got me out of maths lessons, and I took up the bowed psaltery because it was there, and wasn't socally unacceptable (unlike the melodeons, accordions and bagpipe that populated the house of the SO when we married and I moved in......). We now have a piano, and I'm getting better with one hand, but still can't do a tune with my right hand (very left handed, me).

LTS