Open Thread

[greenchestnuts]

Today's open thread is about musical instruments. Do you play any? Do you wish you played any? Did you know that the biggest woodwind instrument in the world is seven feet tall?

Comments

[shiyiya]

Yeah, I've looked at the criteria for dyscalculia a few times, and I have a fair number of the things there. I remember I had a really godawful time with the timed math tests in elementary school, too.

But yeah! Sightreading. Can't do it. If I write the letters of all the notes on the staff or memorize them, I can actually play piano reasonably well (I can - or could last time I tried - play the first portion of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor from memory), but I have to learn all music - whether for instrument or vocal - by rote. Which isn't that much of a hardship for me, really, as I'm primarily a singer (again, eight years of choir) and quite happy to listen to/sing things on infinite repeat until they're burned into my brain.