On 11/3/2005 at 9:13 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
 I stopped playing the tuba 40 years ago.
My hearing is way too bad to subject anybody to listening to it. 
 I took up the tuba in 1997, being a nearsighted piano player since I was a
 kid.  My wife encouraged me to take up an instrument that I could be  more
 "sociable" with.
 I'm still nearsighted, but since then, I've also learned double bass and am
 setting my sights on learning viola this year.  Just another noise to
 torment the dogs...
 Are musically-minded people still as commonplace in the computer business
 as they once were? 
I took operatic singing lessons for thirteen years.  I'm a large-range
tenor.
Still sing sometimes.  Thinking about singing seriously for the first
time in a few years.
Peace...  Sridhar