Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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A My Favorite Hobby Playing an instrument can be a very entertaining and profitable hobby. That is my definite opinion now. A few years ago I enjoyed listening to someone else play an instrument and produce exciting music but as far as I could see I was wasting my time practicing scales and pieces such as NNarciss- usn, uBarcarol1en, and Beethovens', NMoonlight Sonatan which were included in my piano lessons. My parents insisted that I would be very sorry someday if I didn't sit down to that piano and practiceu But this advice went in one ear and out the other for I didn't care what they said. I knew they were wrong because I didn't want to be a second nJose Iturbin anyway. When I did go to the piano it was much more interesting to render an exciting arrangement of uChop- sticksu or the nB1aek Hawk Waltzn more interesting, that is, until someone heard me and decided I wasn't practicing. I always managed to get through my lessons somehow. One teacher I had died and one gave up teaching soon after I started taking lessons from her, At this point I began to wonder if I were ujinxe edu or if my music were really that bad. After a while I came to the stage where I could pick out my favorite popular pieces to go along with my scales and serious pieces, I was older then and my interest grew from this stage on. I did not take piano lessons in the hope of becoming a great concert pianist but I took them so I would be able to play for my own enjoyment and that of my family. I have just recently found that it is very interesting to buy a song you especially like and then see if you can play it immediatel or if you have to work hard to be able to play it to your own satis faction. Music as a hobby is very expressive. For instance, I play the piano in my spare moments and among the many songs I have I can number to fit the mood I am in. If I feel Sly and happy number is what I want. If I feel sentimental, sentimental ballads to be played. usually find a carefree, some there are many I now enjoy playing very much and I really wish I had practiced more when I was told, for now I would be able to play more easily and quickly the pieces I enjoy. One can spend many hours at the piano or any instrument in gen- uine enjoyment if music is one of her interests. Norma Brown S39 1.l.......-..........T... O 7