My ears are bleeding.

[Bouncy Ball]

My child is practicing the recorder. Apparently it's some kind of funky jazz piece she is making up on the fly. Then there's the tortuous "Hot Cross Buns" which apparently must be played (but only partially!) 672 times in a row.

My ears, my ears.

[Fenris]

1. Plastic tool of Satan!

I remember having to play "Hot Cross Buns." I remember thinking, "Gee, do I suck or is the recorder simply a hunk of crap?"

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Both?

:shrug:

Is it possible to play well on the recorder?

On a side note, I made up a little anti-bush ditty on her junior sized acoustic guitar the other day. It was fun.

[tigereye]

7. kids at my son's school play songs on the recorder

at the music and art festival. We're one of those "recorder-playing" schools. And it actually sounds pretty good.

[gizmo1979]

3. Eggcellent! What did you do to torture

your parents? Hah revenge!

[Bouncy Ball]

11. Nothing, I swear!!!

[gizmo1979]

14. Sure I know your kind!

Perky right?all the darn time.

[stellanoir]

4. My kid was doing that

last term. He kept on practising a Christmas carol well into January. I kept on telling him he could do the intro to "Stairway to Heaven." He kept on saying, "No Stairway, mommie," a la Wayne's World. Was really silly but totally exasperating.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Wow...no more "Go tell Aunt Rhodie the Old Gray Goose it Dead"?

We played this adnauseum when I was a nine year old.

It could be worse, my daughter tells me for her it was "Good Christian Men Rejoice". Damn. I should have sent her down to Pinellas with her recorder. ;)

[MissB]

6. Move on to piano

It is much better.

I finally had to put my foot down on the Christmas songs last week. Wugh.

[Deja Q]

8. Those things teach homosexuality, you know.

They're shaped like holey phalluses.





:hide:

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Ruh-roh.

But my kid is a girl. Does it make a girl want to be lesbian?

[jdots]

9. Bouncy, i just shipped her a huge set of drums

you'll love it !

[Bouncy Ball]

13. We're moving, UPS will never find us!

[Lisa]

15. you beat me to it! I'll have to go to Plan B ...

... this box of ukuleles for her and her closest 20 friends.


(I'm being nice! I didn't send the violins!)

[Bouncy Ball]

16. She plays the violin, too! And she's a beginner!

She's still on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

I'm homicidal.

[no name no slogan]

10. Just pray to Allah she doesn't join the Baroque Music Ensemble in college

Otherwise, you could be in for a VERY LONG ORDEAL...

:P

[AlCzervik]

17. that was the first song i learned on a recorder too!

thats hilarious!

[bloom]

18. those were the days...

:)