There was a book published in the late sixties, I think, by Dr. Carl Seashore. Called "The Psychology of Music." It was the defining work in the field for a long time.
Seashore also created a sort of musical aptitude test. It was popular to administer this test to elementary school students back in my day. The band director came around and gave us the test as a class. I really thought it would be cool to learn an instrument. Trumpet would have been nice. I was pretty well demolished when they told me the only instrument I would ever play would be, maybe, drums.
I went on to ignore both the organized school band and the test results, and never gave the test another thought, until many years after leaving school I dug up some old papers: there in black and white was the official assessment of my musical potential.
In the meantime I had gone on to learn not only voice, but various guitars, piano, organ, a wind instrument or two (later adding bagpipes), plus directing and composing. The only instrument I've tried, repeatedly, to play with but dismal results?
Drums.
Thank you Dr. Seashore.
-Glenn