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Learning an instrument as a child is a lifelong cognitive benefit - official
Unfortunately, my own entrée into the primary school recorder group was a very short lived affair, as my family couldn’t afford the official school recorder and the cheapo toy alternative they got me was out of tune with the rest, so I got barred… 
And so was born another life-long element of my makeup: music making-adjacent envy…
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This comes up once in a while, and I think the conclusion is always the same. Unfortunately, those who fund education tend to ignore things like this…
Definitely wish I had done more with music as a child (similarly, my parents couldn’t afford musical instruments), but I made up for it as soon as I had enough money to buy instruments.
I had a recorder at primary school, but hated it, TBH. All that “Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore” nonsense… now if they’d let me loop it, slow it down and generally mangle it, I’d have taken to it much more. Except that stuff wasn’t generally available in 60s primary schools!
Secondary school tried to force people into doing exams and stuff if they got wind of instrument playing, which is enough to put anyone off, so it took till I hit 6th form before I bought a guitar.
Music education left a lot to be desired back then, and now it’s just undervalued and underfunded.
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I started play at 6 on cheap melodica with 8 notes, without any teacher.
It was from loneliness, and sadness.
Soon I started play accordion, like copy Cat - folklore.
After realising that world love elektronic, I was shy and tried to forget. But grain has been planted.
Or I just have something with „likening to play music”.
Next was music shool on accordion, classical, second shool mix of electronic and some piano lessons.
Shortening long story, I returned to melodica, with each day more and more.
Its giving me a few moments when I stop thinking, and Im free now. Im not playing anymore an specified song. Its always improvosing during marching. Yes, my steps are my metronome, my breath is my measure what is going on with my mind.
I should fine tuning melodica again, but I discovered its out of tune as something interesting.
I stopped to complain „it is no shakuhachi, and keys seems like quantized scale chromatic” - stopped to looking around for change instrument (cheap hohner 37 keys). When it will broke, I will see. But now its just working on me and some people, sometimes they like it, often not! Not everybody, not everyday. Often people dont like this piiiiiiiii sound.
In past I tried to play on synths like others, on piano like others, always was unhappy.
And still I dont know how to play on piano, my muscles are too stiff, my back is painfull.
I try to learn relax and not forget about breathing on piano/SYNTH/iPad.
But melodica alone solo during marching or even standing, its almost like freedom.
Real freedom would be without all music instruments, only Voice sing, but im still too much in price-drop/sale apps instrument/need to play melodica….. why? Materializm?
Is this pleasure or suffering?
I dont know yet, im trying to discover.
A little out of topic, I hope a little interesting story for somebody.
The melancholy sound of sobbing chords on a melodica, a little reverb, a little dub style delay, is one of my favourite sounds. Pleasure and suffering both from the late, great Augustus Pablo:
Alternatively:
“Melodica (1966) takes the phase looping idea of his previous works and applies it to instrumental music. Steve Reich took a simple melody, which he played on a melodica, then recorded it. He then sets the melody to two separate channels, and slowly moves them out of phase, creating an intricate interlocking melody. This piece is very similar to Come Out in rhythmic structure, and are an example of how one rhythmic process can be realized in different sounds to create two different pieces of music. Reich was inspired to compose this piece from a dream he had on May 22, 1966, and put the piece together in one day. Melodica was the last piece Reich composed solely for tape, and he considers it his transition from tape music to instrumental music.” - Wikipedia
Yes, nice! Second VIDEO brings me memory of Terry Rilley.
Here is szczyp https://youtube.com/watch?v=3_qQfF59Q6o&list=PLXNH2oTyxgg0rOnFkbeBb-yzrLgdts7EF&index=7