Please tolerate another granddaughter post:

[bloke]

During the shutdown, her dad taught himself and became a master at this video overdubbing, which has become a thing.

He made it clear to me that he taught her nothing about any of this, and she figured it all out on her own. All he gave her was access to the program and to the computer.

As a reminder, she's 15:

https://www.facebook.com/karen.houghton ... 577379398/

[sdloveless]

Intolerable!

Actually, that's just fantastic. Seeing a young person really try to get good at something, and then get good at something else that helps demonstrate the first thing, is absolutely wonderful.

[bloke]

She gets a lot of help and encouragement from experts.

[tubatodd]

Amazing skill!

[Schlitzz]

Can we have ANOTHER A for the violas?!

[Three Valves]

How anyone can get that range out of those things is beyond me!

[iiipopes]

Fantastic! We've all come along way since I used to use two portable cassette tape players, one owned by my folks and one owned by my uncle, to practice overdubbing in the mid-70's!

[LeMark]

my daughter had been playing for about 6 months when she made this

[Mary Ann]

Cool -- I guess she likes jazzy stuff. Funny the two things I noted -- she is not very big, based on how big the horn looks, and, heh, if she ever takes up tuba you're going to have to find a way to get that leadpipe angle the way she has it for horn --- angling down, which I am (hmm) pretty familiar with.
She is way too talented to do that for a living (would get bored, I think) and I hope she finds something as creative to make money with so she can continue to have that kind of fun with music.

[bloke]

Cool -- I guess she likes jazzy stuff. Funny the two things I noted -- she is not very big, based on how big the horn looks, and, heh, if she ever takes up tuba you're going to have to find a way to get that leadpipe angle the way she has it for horn --- angling down, which I am (hmm) pretty familiar with.
She is way too talented to do that for a living (would get bored, I think) and I hope she finds something as creative to make money with so she can continue to have that kind of fun with music.

The camera angle may be throwing things off a bit. She's not as tall as a typical male American, but she's taller than her 12th grade sister at this point and she may be taller than her mom and dad. I don't know if she's 5'8" at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up being 5'10" by the time she's in her twenties. When her dad got us a roll of comp tickets in the balcony and we all went to the Pittsburgh Thanksgiving weekend concert together (which is their Austrian music director's version of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Eve concert - featuring a whole bunch of Johann Strauss mixed in with eclectic classical short works - this time, including the Tomasi saxophone concerto, speaking of eclectic) she got all dressed up and wore heels, and - with heels - she was quite tall.

As far as talents plural, she's scary smart. Again, her brother and sister are regular smart, and they'll do fine, but she's just crazy smart. She reads hundreds of books every year (not just fiction) and - again - is taking 12th grade classes at this point and will probably be taking college level classes next year in science, math, and such. I think I already mentioned this stuff, so I'm going to cut it off here. She needs to get into some field that will really challenge her, and I just don't think horn playing will do that for very long. Last week, her grandmother (who zoom teaches her from Texas) put out a recording (fb) of this granddaughter playing the solo from Scheherazade with the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony. That orchestra sounds like a professional orchestra, and she sounded like a seasoned player playing that solo. I guess you noticed that her father really isn't her primary teacher. I think it's a good idea for parents do not be their own children's primary private music lesson instructors, and the grandmother thing - here - is a good idea. The grandmother probably teaches about 80 students a week, and it's probably the busiest teacher in Dallas-Fort Worth, as well as teaching the most promising young students in that area.