Without the ability to read music, LiK would not have been able to submit her ~200+ song contribution to the DT, from our accumulation of music books, in a form that could be used there by the rest of ya'all.

She gives credit to the local 'phone operator, who let her sit at the switchboard when the op needed to run errands. The lady had a piano, and a bench full of sheet music that Lin learned to read well enough to pretend to kill some time playing.

I was more fortunate, and my 5th grade English/Music teacher "roamed" to give music classes to 3d and 4th graders, where she taught me (but alas, not all the kids) to read music reasonably well by the time I started 4th grade.

Without the ability to read music, I'd have missed playing in the HS band, and my chance to flirt with "Marilyn the flute player with the sexy lips," but (big sigh) I never really got very far with that. I'd also likely not have had the chance to perform with the college Concert Band on tour, I suppose - (but a person can only take so much of Milhaud and Stravinsky, although Corley was fun).

John