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RE: We, my family, were subscribers in the 1950s when I was a little kid.

My mom made me take lessons until I was a senior in high school. I virtually never practiced and normally just exasperated my teacher week after week, but I provided a little of her income, so she put up with me.

The trouble with my mom is that she had seen too many old movies, and thought I could become the life of parties, playing the piano for everybody while they sipped their cocktails. What a joke.

I eventually became a school teacher and could play enough to accompany the kids' "singing." I never could teach them to sing in tune, a great failing of American school children. Then I'd go to England and hear the choristers, and think, "Here's this, and I can't teach my kids how to sing Yankee Doodle in tune." No doubt another failure of mine.


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