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Re: What age do you start blowing?

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Subject: Re: What age do you start blowing?
From: Heidi Worth <mayon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 20:11:40 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <c.23693e4.25f7f6b3@xxxxxxx>,
   <Simmshouse@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wondered if anyone has experience of what age a child should be when they
> start blowing. My husband and I were both five (now 32 and 27) and it doesn't
> seem to have done us any harm, but a local musical director suggested our
> daughter should be at least 8 before she starts(she''ll be 4 in April).

I wondered this - I was advised by the brass & woodwind teachers at school
that our son shouldn't consider taking up either cornet or flute until his
second teeth were through.

Problem is that now he wants to become a percussionist <arghhhhh!!>

Cheers

Heidi

(ducking to avoid all those flying sticks ;-)


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