Broadway World
by Elliot Lanes Jan. 6, 2020
Had you been playing any other instruments before you chose the piano?
I started the piano as soon as my hands were big enough to stretch across the keys (at about 6 years old). I studied the organ seriously in middle school and high school, and I think that it is an amazing instrument. Truly the "king of instruments" as Mozart called it. You can learn a lot about orchestration and instrumentation from working with the organ because the families of pipes have such different timbres and registers, and the possibilities of sound that can be created are so vast. I also played the steel drum, which is a wonderful instrument. You can have an entire orchestra of steel drums of various sizes and ranges, and can even play classical repertoire on them. I would love to play steel drums again!
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