Levels of Education

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

As an aside without straying too far from the OP, maybe we can name off our musical attributes as well?

I play guitar, mandolin, banjo (five string long neck), uilleann pipes, pennywhistle and bodhran (for those who don't know, uilleann pipes are Irish bagpipes and the bodhran is a frame drum which looks like an oversized tambourine without the cymblets). I play at piano, hammered dulcimer and Celtic harp.

I started music very young, got a low D pennywhistle for Christmas when I was about five. At seven, my godfather gave me a banjo and taught me some chord progressions. I picked up the other instruments along the way. I had my first professional gig at 13 - as I recall, I was paid £2 and a plate of colcannon.

I was HUGELY fortunate to have come from a very musical family in a part of the world known for music.

Boru