- Jul 20, 2015
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- Tinnitus Since
- 07/2015
Thanks for kind words Ed.
About eight years ago I started to teach one of my grandsons the cornet.
He had a good embouchure and a decent sound, but with no school orchestra to join it was just me giving him lessons to do, with no other playing possibilities.
I noticed him getting a bit bored with it all, and as I never believe in harassing kids, I said;
"Sammy do you find all this a bit too much on top of your school work and your sports activities."
He said, "Well - yes really Booboo."
(His pet name for me.)
I said to him, "Don't worry sweetheart - if you ever want to come back to it we can start again where we left off."
He is a great kid and a marvellous footballer.
I go to watch his matches nearly every Sunday morning.
You need to get that kid into a headlock and tell him what's what!
In all seriousness, though, that's a real shame. The ideal scenario would have been a passing of the torch so to speak, so it's unfortunate that this never came to be.