My first instrument was the sax. Played from the 4th grade through college. Last time I played was the UF/FSU game 1988. I marched in the band.
Ok fast forward to 2002, when my daughter decided to play the clarinet. We got her horn, and I start playing it. Rememberd almost all the scales. My daughter was pissed. She says, "Mom I thought you played sax! That's my instrument!" And grabbed her horn back. I said yeah, but the fingering is the same, and I had to play the flute and clarinet at times for jazz band, I was lead alto. I also played the oboe. She say, "go back to your guitars!"
I started playing guitar around the 10th grade. Self taught there. Oddly I get paid to play these days.
My son was smart he picked the trumpet. He knew I didn't play brass. He did well with the trumpet. He marched in drum corps, (Boston Crusaders). During his age out year he won the DCI solo competition and is now a music teacher. He got a degree in music performance and education and is the music teacher at Louis Carrol Elementary School in Merritt Island. I was surprised he actually got a job in music without having to be a waiter first. Normally if you are musician or actor, being a waiter is a prerequisite.
Currently I have probably too many interments. A classical guitar (my primary guitar), a martin, a 12 string taylor (that thing is sweet!), an electric, a 5 string bass, a mandolin, a banjo, a ukulele, many harmonicas, several recorders, and my sax with the big gator sticker on it.
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