I am tone deaf

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One of my psychiatrists (one I work with, not one I go to) decided to learn to play piano.

He has never had a music lesson in his life.

He is very enthusiastic about this because it is romantic for him ... He wishes to be able to play hymns on the piano for his wife, just as her father did for her mother.

He has at this point gotten sidetracked over music theory, which he finds fascinating. I don't know if he will get back to the point of playing the $1,000 digital piano he bought.

He does that. He's into impulse purchases.

Anyway, it's never to late to learn to play a musical instrument, but you have to figure out if you have throughout your life been indifferent to playing music, or if your "tone deafness" is real.

If you are truly tone deaf and rhythmless, no amount of lessons will get you to play an instrument, but I would be more than happy to just take an equivalent amount of money from you and issue you a nice certificate.

Start with something less expensive than the piano in the above example.

Like maybe harmonica, recorder, or something in a nice percussion instrument.

I can actually very heartily recommend Native American Flute, for which you don't have to learn to read music, and can pretty much get a good result from by blowing in one end and waggling your fingers around the other.