Hey John C (bruno 123):
Your Forum messages are always such a delight to read and respond to, but today I must scold you slightly!
Although I am just an amateur and play strictly by ear, I can understand your professional attitudes, and those I accept. (We all had to make a living one way or another.) But it is the age thing that bothers me: so you are 72!!!! Big deal!
Look at it this way, John, you are 72 and ALIVE, and still able to make beautiful music (at least on your keyboard
). Age, my friend, is a quality of the mind! Would you believe I only found out about my musical "talent" and "ability" when I was 62!!!!
And it was by accident that I found my first keyboard--a Technics 5000! Won't bore you with the details, but these past 10 years have been some of the most productive and happiest of my entire life. (As you might have guessed, we are now age-contemporaries!
) So, whether you play as an amateur, like me, or professionally, the joy is in playing
and knowing the incredible pleasure all these magic sounds combined can provide us, emotionally, mentally and, yes, even physically!
So, play on, John!!!! And keep those wonderful messages coming to us all on the Forum. I have learned so much from you (and all my other Forum buddies) here that I could never even begin to thank you all enough. How right you are that this place is the greatest!
Ain't life--and especially the life of music--GREAT!!!!
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Ted
[This message has been edited by Ted Rose (edited 09-07-2003).]