piperjoe wrote:
I've a whole list of instruments that I'm putting off until my next incarnation.
I think that for an instrumentalist, especially a beginner, there are often two competing drives that need to be balanced out.
One is the drive to try a bunch of different instruments in order to discover the one (or ones) that really suit you. Like other relationships, your relationship to your instrument is a mysterious romance. And with some instruments, you know from almost the moment you pick it up that you were just meant to play it. And if you never try it, you'll never know. Others are more like arranged marriages that you may grow into over time with patience and effort.
The other drive is to become really good with your chosen partner. And for that, flitting about from instrument to instrument can definitely be counterproductive. You need a kind of monogamy, or at least serial monogamy. I know people who go through a cycle of trying one, giving up, trying another, giving up ... And they end up as a mediocre jack of all and master of none.
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