WHERE did you start playing guitar or another instrument

I was a drummer from a very early age.  I was also a huge Beatles fan.  It didn't take me very long to realize that all the girls loved Paul, John, and George and thought that Ringo was goofy.  It became apparent that I would eventually have to switch instruments, so I started messing around with my brother's Fender Stratocaster at about ten.

I had a natural ability for rhythm guitar right off the bat, but I never really developed any kind of "soloing" ability.  Basically, I learned three or four chords and jammed on them over and over again, watching myself in the mirror as I mimicked John, Paul, and George.  Ultimately, I became a professional drummer and always envied the guitar players in all my bands. 

In 1996, at age 34, I packed in the drums and became a regular 9-5 worker.  Ten years later, the bug hit me to make music again.  Having followed George Harrison's interest in the ukulele - and subsequently having found out that most of my rock and roll idols had been avid ukulele fans for most of their careers, I decided to give this instrument a shot.  I bought a $50 Johnson uke on Amazon and became instantly hooked.

Today, I still have my feel for rhythm and I've mastered about 12-13 chords that work really well together, but I still can't find my way around the frets and strings to solo or embellish my chord changes.  If I were to join a band, I would definitely be the John Lennon guy and not the George Harrison guy.  Still, I'm having more fun than I would ever have imagined and the uke has enriched my life (and the life of my family) beyond words.

PS:  I ended up married for 28 years to a very beautiful woman anyway, even though she met me when I was just a drummer!

Tuba- In 8th grade, my age 13, at a band tryout, the first low note I tooted rattled the windows behind me. Gotta love that kind of power in an acoustic instrument.
Trumpet-At a Benedictine monestery at age 16 - studying to be a priest, I found a fine Olds Ambassador trumpet under a pile of costumes in a dramatics hall. Tuba fingerings worked and I fell in love with the sound. The monks let me play in in a 9-trumpet choir with a huge pipe organ. Cool!
Guitar - Age 22, my new wife got her first job and with her first paycheck, bought me a $50 Harmony
guitar instead of a radio she badly wanted (yes, that's one of many reasons I'm still married to her). I took two lessons from our local music store, then came home and started learning songs off 45 RPM records. Three months later I was playing in a country band in a sleazy bar for tips only.
Trombone - I was the leader of a jazz/rock bar band in the late 60's.I found a Bb Getzen valve trombone in a pawn shop for $50. The fingerings were the same as trumpet and the sound was one octave lower. I found a way to hold the bone and trumpet together and go from one to the other playing with no gap in the music. I bought a Conn slide trombone with a proper stand when the drummer jumped down off his riser and stomped my old Getzen flat where it lay on the floor.
The Conn slide bone had a better sound and the slide effects were almost sexy.
Got back into tuba in 1991 when I found one in a Siberian music store for 10,000 rubles ($10 U.S.)
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