Hi techy, I said I didn't read music, but if I remember the recorder/ tonnette thing, they had eight holes, one for each note. the music was written to the eight note scale, so to that extent, I guess I did learn to read music to a small degree. At least that was the basics anyway. Didn't get into the octave thing. That would have complicated matters ( eight notes to each octave ). Then when you throw in Chords such as with the piano, that really gets complicated ( not so bad with the guitar ). The organ has those things built in so you can use a single key to play a chord. Ah, I think that's enough for the music appreciation thing. coastie65

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