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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 26, 2026 [SPOILER]

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Thanks Lollipop. I had a few years of piano lessons (classical, not popular) as a young boy, and I feel as though I should know the detail that you corrected. Gosh, that was well over 50 years ago, and I haven't touched a piano in over twenty years (but I can still read music notation) and that is certainly my loss (although probably not to the rest of the world). I have a nephew who is a concert violinist, and his preferances are pretty much the same as yours.

Bruce, my dad was an amateur musician who played piano, violin, and viola. Throughout his life, when he was home there was classical music playing. I took piano lessons from age 5 through first year university age 17, taking piano and theory exams starting age 10 and later with university-level music and performance courses as part of my arts curriculum. Classical music was omnipresent in my life; it was partly a pain in my butt but also partly a treasured connection with my dad that I didn't have to share with my mother and younger sister, though I didn't connect *those* dots until many years later. When I was 14, on the recommendation of my piano teacher who had found a second-hand Steinway grand piano, my father bought it for me. But during that first year in university, I met the boyfriend who became my husband, and I was a teen who wanted to *finally* be able to grow my fingernails, so after that year I stopped taking lessons. Just as well; at that same age, 17, I was taught how to reconcile accounts receivable at my summer office job, and right away I said it felt like being paid to do crossword puzzles. So after second year arts I switched out and eventually became a CPA. Go figure. I'm grateful for both: that the profession that made me happy found me when I was 17, and also that classical music has been quite literally my lifelong love.

Meanwhile, in the midst of all this introductory disclosure, Kristen got the right answer!! Way to go. I think you got this one in record time (pun not intended). I submitted the puzzle, took a shower, came out of the shower, and there was your post.

the direction of the notes bugged me, too, but they seemed to fit the space better so I allowed it ^_^

if we can't allow artistic license in an artistic interpretation of an art, then when? ;P

right? It could also be a mirror image! ;)

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