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I grew up with music. We had a family orchestra: my dad on French horn or string bass, my sister Gini on clarinet or piano, my brother Duncan on cornet, me on violin or French horn, our friends roped in on whatever instruments they played, or all of us on recorder. My little brother and sister learned piano and clarinet as well, but they were enough younger than the rest of us that the family orchestra was history by then. Gini and Geoff picked up guitar, and I eventually acquired two mountain dulcimers without ever gaining any facility with them.

We were not the Trapp family. ( Read more )