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Thread #155574   Message #3661812
Posted By: GUEST,Jane of 'ull
19-Sep-14 - 09:06 AM
Thread Name: Your local School - how much music
Subject: RE: Your local School - how much music
I'm going to donate to that project. Music provision in my school was pretty dire even back then in the 70s and 80s. At senior high school all the music curriculum was classical music only. Hardly interesting to your average teenager, being made to study and memorise 16th century church music. Our music teacher was a right miserable old fuddy duddy bitch. At 15 I asked if I could learn to play the violin or flute. She replied there was no provision for this tuition but there was for the double bass, and she went on about how lucky I was to take up this instrument 'at such an advanced age' !! I hated the bloody thing, I wanted to play tunes but being slight I couldn't even press the strings down. I finally got to play fiddle in my late 20s by renting one from the music shop. Couldn't afford to buy one at the time, and if it weren't for that shop I might never have realised I could play fiddle. Ho hum.