Hi Beth,

Such a nice thread here, makes me smile. I believe my mom's side had the music genes. My grandma played a little bit of claw hammer banjo. My mother and my uncle and aunts played guitar and sang harmonies together, and my mom taught everyone of her children (6 of us) the few chords she knew. Each of us grew into different degrees of playing, but all by ear. My brother played 5 string and guitar, and some of my sisters just play guitar, but some play a number of different stringed instruments.
My dad loved to play bluegrass 8 tracks lol, so we were introduced at young ages.

He could never play anything, and everytime he got us to play for company, he would make the same statement. "All of my children play, and I can barely play the radio," lol.

Anyway, thanks for the thread and the stories,

Letha

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