When I started learning horn at the young age of 50, I had a terrible time with it. My wife, who has 7 years of University and 15 years of piano and theory all in music just sailed along helping me. Now I get it. Took several years. Makes it tricky if I want to sing and play along at times, due to the fact I often like, say the key of A, so I end up playing in 5 sharps. At the outset that was out of the question, but I'm almost there, no key shakes me too badly. I don't like it much to be handed bass clef and told to add 3 flats, I just pass the music to my wife over 2 chairs and she writes the treble clef equivalents for the piece which for her takes like 2 minutes a page. Pees me off to no end that I can't do that...but now that the next birthday is the 60th I'm thinking about learning the sexaphone just fer fun.

John Conley
Musica est vita