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Ocelot II

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1. I never had a guitar-playing teacher.

Reply to Trellastic (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 12:27 PM

Jan 2025

We didn't have a song time, though we did have music instruction in which we learned to play plastic recorders called Flutophones, which sounded terrible. But we did learn to read music a bit. That was back in the late '50s, long before schools got rid of music and art curricula.

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Remember song time in school when the teacher would take out the guitar [View all] Trellastic Jan 2025 OP

I never had a guitar-playing teacher. Ocelot II Jan 2025 #1

Same Here ProfessorGAC Jan 2025 #7

I recall a song about Minka. Don't know the name. Midnight Writer Jan 2025 #2

B-I-N-G-O dweller Jan 2025 #3

For some reason, our school music teachers never had guitars. surrealAmerican Jan 2025 #4

I remember him well he was actually our pe teacher FirstLight Jan 2025 #5

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Lunabell Jan 2025 #6

Nope. None of my music classes did this. sakabatou Jan 2025 #8