Dec. 12, 2011

Family Singing

My mother and father were very musically inclined. Dad loved to sing and mom loved to hear him sing. He had also played for several years in a family band that traveled all around Duchesne County for Saturday night dances where they would play for them. Dad had a saxaphone and played that in the band. I don’t remember hearing him play it during my youth very much but did end up playing it myself during my upper school years. It was a fun instrument and I ended up with it and still have it to this day. I took a breather form it and played the trumpet during my Junior year then went back to the sax for my senior year. Mom played the piano although she didn’t play it a lot. She did however try to get each of us to play it. She failed with me. However she succeeded with Leesa and thus Leesa, or Alma, would play for us on Sunday nights as we sang together as a family. We always tried to get dad to sing the Mighty Deep or No Man is an Island since they had such beautiful base parts and he could sing them even when the lowest note was way down on the scale.  We sang hymns for the most part and always seemed to have a fun time doing it. It was part of our Family home Evenings. I learned to sing alto from the help of Alma during those times and later to sing base and some tenor as well.