took up the clarinet in 6th grade and played it till I started college, when the great 'folk scare' of the '60s hit the USA...not being a singer, I took up the recorder (easy transition) and tootled away..till my ex-wife bought an autoharp from Sears and then abandoned it...I tuned it up and messed with it. I had ONE notion to try the guitar, but....a 'friend' said he'd show me...he showed me a barred 'F' and said to practice that and he'd show me some more...so I play autoharp! Also have a dulcimer the needs a peg replaced and and old melodeon that I got in a shop for $20 ...it just needed home