I played cello in my high school orchestra.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.