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I played the saxophone in junior high.

I played the piano for a long time, and still love to sit down at my parent's piano to play. My husband plays piano, guitar, bass... he'd really like to get a piano for the house.

I played the clarinet from 4th grade until high school. I was a band geek, but I loved it.

We have DH's Nana's piano in our living room right now, but the keys are all broken. We need to get someone to come out to fix it, because LO loves banging on anyone's piano who has one!

I played violin for many years. Competed a lot and taught violin for a while too. I really don’t play anymore, though I’ve been thinking about it more and about mentoring elementary school violinists through my workplace (long story short, our office partners with local schools for various subject matter mentoring, they bus the kids to our work weekly for tutoring).

We plan to start LO with piano lessons in the next year or so, which she is very excited about already. I think the piano is a great “starter” instrument – teaches you to read multiple clefs, etc. Then she’s welcome to branch out to whatever instrument she likes!

I played piano and cello.
We bought a piano in July and DD started lessons recently.

I also played violin and piano for 10+ years. I loved playing, so much. I stopped around 18-19 when it was too diffiult to keep up with when Istarted college. But if I could go back in time, I would have just continued with lessons. Now it's been so long since I've played that I barely remember the basics of violin. I do still play piano occasionally, and I will buy a piano whenever we actually get a house.

I've actually thought of going back to my violin teacher and doing lessons as a fun me time once I'm done with school!

I started with piano at age 7. I played trumpet from age 12 and through college. I played percussion in the high school orchestra and taught myself a little guitar in law school. DD and I had a parade around the family room with her on tambourine and me on trumpet just a few weeks ago! It's important to me that they both read music, and I will encourage some musical training as they grow.

I started singing at 4, and learned a number of instruments after that (flute, piano, guitar, drums, etc). My husband and I are both very into music and play together regularly by ourselves, with friends or at clubs so we have a ton of instruments around the house. It has been so much fun to expose LO to them and the music we love. At 11 months old she has clear musical preferences and her absolute favorite thing to do in the world is sit on our laps and play the piano. She doesn't bang on it, she thoughtfully chooses keys to press, which is hilarious. My husband will play some kind of jazz line with one hand and LO will freeform above it - so cute! My brother started piano lessons just after turning 3, (he's a professional pianist now) so we're considering doing something similar with LO if she is still loving making music at that age.

There's very little that is more stress relieving stress than banging on a drum set!

I play the piano and took lessons for about 12 years. We have a piano in our home, and LO at 6 months loves to play it. I played the flute at elementary/middle school for five years but my lung capacity is crap so I totally sucked at it!