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MJRMJR said:

I wish I started young!

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Rllink said:

When I say that to my wife she always tells me that I wouldn't have anything to do now if I had learned to play it when I was young.

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Mivo said:

Looking back at my childhood and teenage years, I think I had plenty of opportunity to learn an instrument with a mother and grandparents who were supportive. I just didn't have the interest. At around 12, my grandparents bought me an expensive Hohner electronic organ that was magnificent. I went a few times to a piano and organ teacher that I didn't get along with (and I wasn't interested in The Saints Go Marching In and other such to me unfamiliar tunes, nor the dull chord exercises), and the whole thing didn't lead anywhere. Then the next Christmas I got my first computer and that killed any other interests in the next two decades anyway. I learned how to program (no choice but to do that at the time) and was endlessly fascinated by the machine. Even if someone had given me a stringed instrument, I'd not have done anything with it.

So, yeah, I certainly wish I had started to play ukulele at age 12 instead of 40, and the game of Go at age 5 instead of 35, but I wouldn't have enjoyed it if I had and would probably not do either of these things now if they had been forced on me at a young age.

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Mivo said:

Looking back at my childhood and teenage years, I think I had plenty of opportunity to learn an instrument with a mother and grandparents who were supportive. I just didn't have the interest. At around 12, my grandparents bought me an expensive Hohner electronic organ that was magnificent. I went a few times to a piano and organ teacher that I didn't get along with (and I wasn't interested in The Saints Go Marching In and other such to me unfamiliar tunes, nor the dull chord exercises), and the whole thing didn't lead anywhere. Then the next Christmas I got my first computer and that killed any other interests in the next two decades anyway. I learned how to program (no choice but to do that at the time) and was endlessly fascinated by the machine. Even if someone had given me a stringed instrument, I'd not have done anything with it.

So, yeah, I certainly wish I had started to play ukulele at age 12 instead of 40, and the game of Go at age 5 instead of 35, but I wouldn't have enjoyed it if I had and would probably not do either of these things now if they had been forced on me at a young age.

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