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-** This week I 'ave mostly been playing music ** 
  
-As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've rekindled my interest in playing musical instruments. I'm learning the Alto recorder and I've got my mandolin down off of its hanger.+As I mentioned in another post, I've rekindled my interest in playing musical instruments....  
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 +I'm learning the Alto recorder and I've got my mandolin down off of its hanger.
  
 I haven't (yet) exhumed my D/G melodeon from its case, hiding on top of the bookshelf, but that's only a matter of time, surely? I haven't (yet) exhumed my D/G melodeon from its case, hiding on top of the bookshelf, but that's only a matter of time, surely?
  
 I've dipped in and out of playing music all my life and **never** got to the stage where I feel I'm any good at it.  I've dipped in and out of playing music all my life and **never** got to the stage where I feel I'm any good at it. 
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 This isn't false modesty. I just haven't ever got past the "advanced-beginner-early-intermediate" stage, got to the point where I'm comfortable playing (in public/with an audience etc), to where I make few mistakes, where I can get through a tune if not artistically, then at least competently. This isn't false modesty. I just haven't ever got past the "advanced-beginner-early-intermediate" stage, got to the point where I'm comfortable playing (in public/with an audience etc), to where I make few mistakes, where I can get through a tune if not artistically, then at least competently.

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