Now that we're settled in our home, I've started looking for music teachers for the older kids. Joy decided that she wants to keep studying a string instrument, but she doesn't want to continue with the viola because there isn't much solo music written for it. She also doesn't want to study the violin because that would just be too obvious. What non-obvious string instrument has plenty of great solos and duets written for it?
The cello! Joy began cello lessons this afternoon (under the approving gaze of J. S. Bach).
As Joy's instructor gave her pointers about how to hold the bow, I had a flashback to when Joy was a newborn in the hospital, and some of Phillip's family members were visiting to meet her for the first time. His family was very musical, and someone commented that Baby Joy had long, slender "piano fingers." His sister Laura, who studied the cello for years, replied, "No, they are cello fingers."
Maybe Aunt Laura was right. :)
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