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@ 2009-07-26 – 21:18:11
When you were at school were you forced to learn a musical instrument?
Me? Well I had the usual recorder thrust in my grubby paws but weirder than this I have used a melodica (a instrument you blew that had a keyboard), a stylophone, a glockenspiel, hand bells and a triangle (when they finally found out I was tone deaf).
Anything better than this?
banana
Pro 
mrs-h-the-3rd
Pro We were all given the recorder at school as well but I also got to learn the tenor recorder, but awkward cause my hands are quite small.
I gave the clarinet a go but didn't have the puff for it and I taught myself the flute when I got to high school but I started going to piano lessons in primary school so I didn't get pushed to learn any other instruments.
I played the recorder, then mum made me try piano lessons with a family friend, followed by the violin.
My musical finale was in the first year of senior school - I played the Bassoon for a month or two. I bit through about 5 reeds and they were expensive to replace, the Bassoon was sooo heavy and cumbersome on the school bus and I really wasn't any good either!
ravingmad
Only got to play a triangle a couple of times in infants - after that nothing! I feel deprived now after reading everyone else's experiences 
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I learned the violin. My experiences added to that of having to listen to my husband who decided at one point he wanted to learn to play the violin led to me writing this short poem.
What the music teacher really thinks.
The devil makes work for idle hands – thus the violin was born
from whose tortured throat, screaming notes are torn.
The world is full of wickedness debauchery and sin
And as a fitting punishment – we have the violin.