Friday, September 10, 2010

Me

They are some really cool thing about me that I bet no of you know!! One of them being that i am obsessed with learning the Russian Language! Why, because i want to move there after I retire! Russia is a cool place and many of my ancestors were from there!! I bet you also did not know that I play the French Horn! I have been first chair since my 6th  grade year!! But the cool thing about the French Horn is, 1 it's the hardest wind instrument to play, 2 it wasn't even created in France, and 3 Mozart wrote a lot of solos for the F.Horn. The reason for this being is that Mozart loved cheese, and there was a cheese maker right down the street from him. Now Mozart was kind of poor, and his friend the cheese maker played the Horn (as it was called in those days). Mozart struck a deal with this friend of his, he would trade cheese for music. Now this may sound silly to one today, but back then it was a big deal to be able to play an instrument, but to have one's own concerto, that was just unheard of. The cheese maker was also poor so he only had an E-flat slide for his instrument, due to this most of the pieces are in the key of E-flat!! This is cool to me because when I have to play a solo i can play a piece by a very famous composer!! Okay, so as you can see I am a huge Nerd!!!! B)  But I love it!!!!!

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