I think I may live to regret this but...

We are having a bit of a crisis at church with a distinct shortfall of musicians—a typical problem I am sure. Alex had a spark of inspiration and thought some time ago that she should begin to learn an instrument in order to help out at the odd occasion when there were no able-bodied, card-carrying musicians around. What did she do? By beginning with (as any sensible former questionnaire-writing-for-a living-person would do) a list of appropriate and helpful musical instruments. These are the findings:

Requirements: portability, easy to learn, able to provide solid sound for congregational accompaniment.

Results (in order of helpfulness)
1. Piano (forced to learn it as a child, not going there again)
2. Guitar
3. Trumpet and assorted brass
4. Recorder (are you kidding? Being a Christian person is persecution enough)
5. Flute (see point 1)
6. Violin
7. Melodeon
8. Drums
...
89. Tuba (already tried and failed)
107. Bagpipes (already tried and failed-Part II)
...
327. Ukulele
328. Tenor Ukulele

So which one did A decided upon? Check out her other blog site (purely experimental of course) for photos and a very poor first uke recording.
http://smockdog.typepad.com/smockdog/

Rock of Ages will never be the same again (and nor will Middle England)