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The Young Person’s Guide to the (Smartphone) Orchestra
By KIT EATON
Published: August 15, 2012
When I was a toddler, my parents introduced me to music-making through a cheap plastic recorder. Later came a secondhand violin and the tireless efforts of my school’s choir teacher. It was all fun, even if I found it so hard to learn violin the “traditional” way. All I could produce for ages was a horrid squeaking.
I’ve nevertheless loved music ever since, and happily my two children seem to have inherited the same passion. Nowadays there’s a technological trick for getting them to play music, one that gives them the different sounds that an orchestra of instruments can make: smartphones and tablets.