I was listening to someone play an instrument the other day and it had an interesting sound. At first, I was intrigued and thought that was a unique sound that you could do a lot with. After a short while though, the sound started to annoy me and I thought how someone could pick an instrument like that to play, it would drive me crazy. But obviously that sound spoke to the person that was playing it and they played it well, but it didn’t speak to me. We all have instruments that speak to us. I play saxophone in band because it spoke to me. Way back when I was in junior high school, I heard someone playing the saxophone and I just loved the sound. Before that I had never really listened to music that featured the sax like that. The person was playing a piece on the sax and it had a range of sounds and styles that appealed to me. It could be soft and soothing or loud and raucous. I started listening more and more to different players on the radio. Finally, when I graduated from High School, I decided to buy my first sax and took lessons. Unfortunately, after a couple of years life got in the way of my playing and I put it away for several decades. But finally, I’ve found a group that lets me play again. And I still like the sound of the saxophone, even when I am playing it. Now I’m sure there are some that say, “how can you love the sound of such a hideously sounding instrument?” I guess to each his own, that is the point, and that is how you pick your instrument.
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