I think a lot of people here can relate to this.

[AdagioM]

Yes, so much. Not so much with piano for me, but guitar and singing. Making music with friends, recording, singing/playing in church and at events, writing lyrics, writing songs, playing at a wedding…nothing for money, but for the pure joy of it. I love it.

Thanks for sharing, @mary-anna !

[Jodi]

That little ukulele group I belonged to in Maine. We’d practice at the local nursing home, at the senior center, twice a week. All levels of players and singers. It was joyful. I loved it.

[ShiroKuro]

@mary-anna ️️️

Of course me with piano. But also my mother (age 82). She moved here last June and has recently joined a choir. She loves it. Sometimes I help her prep, she comes to my house and we sit at the piano so I can play her notes, that kind of thing. It’s really nice

[Bernard]

There's always been a lot of music in my life. I have fond memories from when I was a teenager... A new couple had moved into the Clough's big (BIG) old farmhouse with attached outbuildings up the road from us. I can't remember the sequence of events that led to the discovery that they liked to play medieval and renaissance music on ancient wind instruments. So I would visit them with my recorder. He would generally take out his crumhorn, and as I recall, she had an assortment of recorder sizes. Made for very lovely evenings.

[Daniel]

I wouldn't be unhappy about it. I only wish I had the ability to do it.

[ShiroKuro]

@Bernard said:
crumhorn

I had to google that!

[Mary Anna]

I can't remember if I've mentioned it here, but I joined the community chorus in January. It's a big group of nice people and the director is wonderful. It's a no-audition group, and yet she had us singing fairly difficult music that was really interesting. Muffin came to our concert last month. It's lovely to be doing music with people again, and it's especially lovely to live where I can see one of my kids as easily as one of us hopping on public transportation.

There's a smaller group with the same director that opened for the choir. Their performance was really stunning. That [i]is[/i] an audition situation that involves attending summer rehearsals that serve as auditions. I'm going to go to those rehearsals and see if I can be part of that, too.

[Mary Anna]

Oh, and the choir rehearses at a church right across the street from my house. I can walk out my front door five minutes before rehearsal and be there with time to spare.

I was doing tai chi last year that met in the same place, but I dropped it because of a lot of travel and haven't picked it up yet. I only have so much time and energy for weekly evening commitments, but I did really enjoy it, and the location could only be more convenient if the instructor showed up at my front door.

[Steve Miller]

An excellent quote, and so true!

The guy who wrote it is interesting as well. Quite a history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JHS_Pedals

[CHAS]

@Bernard I like the recorder. Have never spent the time needed to learn it. We go to early music events in Tucson.
Plan to take my fiddle to the weekly gathering at the local senior center for folk instruments.