I spent several lifetimes during the Baroque and Elizabethan periods exploring a wide range of informal and formal musical paths, because of personal interest and aesthetic appetite. Partly as a result of that, I made sure that some musical bent was at least among the higher criteria when looking for fambly this lifetime. But then, you know, musical types tend to find each other, just like other good sorts. Music and other high-order relational skills are natural IMHO to those with a certain amount of free attention. But it is wildly variable; I never got into anything more disciplined than jugband this lifetime, while Barky is a full-fledged orchestral musician at sixteen. As to genes -- well, I guess sensitive nerves and such might play a part, but I think they're highly over-rated as the Big Kahuna -- an excuse for not rolling your own. (No, not that!).

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