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“MUSIC IS THE KEY” – by Des Kelly While everything else is going on around us, the only thing to help with sanity around the Globe is MUSIC. There is ALWAYS some music playing around, SOMEWHERE. My Mum, bless her soul, was musically minded. She won prizes for singing, while still in School, and was determined to pass on her talents to her eldest Son, me. Very early on, also at School, she wanted me to learn to play piano, which I did try. My piano teacher was a Roman Catholic Nun, and she did try her best, but being a little rebel, right from the start, I was not too wrapped in sitting there playing ‘scales’ day after  boring day. I wanted to play the ukulele, and Mum did have one in a cupboard at home. I never did learn the ‘theory’ of music,which I always later regretted,but my ...