Byline: Howard Blumenthal United Feature Syndicate
In 1961, Miss Bartel, my fourth-grade teacher at P.S. 113, told me to learn to play the flute. I was not an especially patient student. Since four days of what I considered to be hard practice yielded not a single decent note, I did what I had to do. I threw the flute out the school bus window.
The flute incident turned me off to playing an instrument for years. In time, I became intrigued with the piano, and if I'm alone with a piano in the room, I'll try to pick out a few notes. I suspect that my latent desire to play is the reason why I have been so intrigued with a new product from Yamaha, a very portable music sequencer, synthesizer and drum machine.
Before I explain the product, let's get a few terms …
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