[speaker001:] Why don't you tell me about your choir.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing].
[speaker002:] Okay, well, we, uh, are a group of, uh, musicians that just kind of have, you know, formed out of a desire to sing and many of the people in the group are very professional in the sense that they, or just real talented I should say.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Lot of them are former music teachers or currently teaching. Uh, others have, there's one gal that's in the, uh, Plano Community Orchestra. Uh, [lipsmack] just, you know, different backgrounds. It's been really kind of interesting.
[speaker001:] Great.
[speaker002:] So,
[speaker001:] Uh, I play the piano
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] and, uh, I have a four year old who, who has started to play the piano. He does that, uh, musically, listens and then he can play, which is kind of interesting.
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker001:] I think it's because he's always heard music in our home all the, since he was a baby.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Uh, [lipsmack] my husband and my other son, who's eleven just got through singing in a musical here, in, in the community at Music Man.
[speaker002:] Oh, they did?
[speaker001:] Yeah, and that's
[speaker002:] How did,
[speaker001:] lots of fun.
[speaker002:] How did they get involved in that?
[speaker001:] Uh, basically they read in the newspaper that there were open auditions. It was the Plano Repertory Theatre.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And so they went and tried out and my husband played Harold Hill from the Music Man and my son played one of the children in a band.
[speaker002:] Oh, how fun.
[speaker001:] So, yeah, it was really fun, and, uh, my son plays the clarinet in his band at school, and my daughter takes piano lessons, too.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] But, uh, we just really like music. It's a, I, I especially like it as an outlet when the T V goes off, we [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Um, uh-huh, um.
[speaker001:] get the T V off and just have some nice quiet music.
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah, that's nice. You say have your four year old taking lessons already?
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And, uh, who do you have her, or him, take it from?
[speaker001:] Uh, I have him take from a friend of mine who teaches Suzuki.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Which is an auditory type learning experience. You listen to the music and then learn to play it by lear-, by hearing the intervals and things like that.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I teach, uh, [lipsmack] like what is traditionally taught, you know, you look at the note on the page and you play what's on the piano, but he can't learn like that. He's a delayed child. He's only about, I guess he's about two and a half in his real understanding of things.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, uh, so when my friend played something on the piano and he played it, uh, with his right hand, we went, wow
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] we better have him do s-, do something.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] You know, educationally.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So that was really fun.
[speaker002:] Well, because my,
[speaker001:] My husband and I love to go to the musicals downtown, though.
[speaker002:] Pardon me?
[speaker001:] So, my husband and I love to go to the musicals when they come into town
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] into Dallas.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. Well, I have an eight and a half year old daughter who's taking piano lessons and started out at the age of just turning five
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] because she wanted, you know, she just seemed to enjoy it so much and now my, my four year old, four and a half year old daughter is, is trying to imitate her older sister and wanting to play and she actually does some very nice chording just naturally. She just,
[speaker001:] Oh, I think that's great.
[speaker002:] So I wasn't sure when to start her. I didn't want to push her too early, either, but, uh, kind of had a mixed feelings about that scene.
[speaker001:] That's really hard I think, because, especially if you start them and then they get pretty good and then they get close, ten, you know, eleven or something, they go, I don't want to do this anymore and you're like
[speaker002:] Uh-huh [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] God, I really want [LAUGHTER] you to do it.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] You know.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So sometimes it's hard to, to know exactly when, but, I don't know, if she acts like she wants to or says she wants to maybe you could have her take some for a while and see how she likes it.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, I think she'd like to, I just don't know if it's really, knowing from what my daughter has gone through, she's, she learned a lot and, of course, it was something she had to keep relearning if she ever got away from it.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] It was something easily forgotten. So, uh, I don't know if she's any farther ahead than those kids who started when they were eight or, or should I say seven. I mean, she's not a gifted pianist in the sense that she's going to excel just naturally. She does have to really work at it, but, uh, so,
[speaker001:] That's like me.
[speaker002:] Yeah, but, so I'm kind of, you know, just playing with it, but at this point we're going to kind of wait, I think just more for the financial reasons of it anyway but,
[speaker001:] Well, it can get expensive
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] that's for sure.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I, my friend is, is very generous in, in letting us have my children, uh, do the Suzuki method
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] without paying a lot out.
[speaker002:] Oh, that's good.
[speaker001:] Yeah, so it's been good for our family.
[speaker002:] Well, as a piano teacher, do you have any feelings for kids who come from a Suzuki method, have you had any former Suzuki students?
[speaker001:] I don't have any Suzuki students. Uh,
[speaker002:] I was wondering how,
[speaker001:] Something happening to me at Christmas time that, that verified to me that I will al-,