Daddy played ragtime piano, and Mom played Protestant piano. I was the only sib of five that got into musical stuff. My maternal grandfather, a hard-drinking sharpshooting mining engineer, would sing all night on camping trips and taught his two daughters to sing three-part harmony with him. Having inherited a large number of his traits, including the capacity for drinking and singing all night when I was younger, I always thought him a fine figure of a man. :D


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