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I didn't watch the show but did read the comments while it was on.  One thing that stuck out was.....for a family that claims to dislike media attention, they sure seemed to like the media attention.  :my_confused:

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8 hours ago, Drala said:

Every Dugger child over 18 spoke on camera about Joshgate during the Jill & Jessa special last night.  I'm wondering which Duggers were against going on the show and speaking out, as some of the tabloids reported.  It would have to be JB and Michelle.

Well there are other Duggars-- Amy and her mother, perhaps. But I just think this was one of those things the tabloids make up out of rumors and casual comments.  I doubt very much that JB and Michelle would have refused to appear, much less that they would say something derogatory about the kids appearing on the show for money.

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8 hours ago, OnceUponATime said:

or Amy (i didn't see the show, but none of the recaps mention her)

i've just been assuming it's amy, since she seems to have no problem talking to the media about the duggars. i've also been assuming she wasn't invited to be on the show, was upset, and made up this story about how she didn't want to be on it anyway to save face. 

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I understand now why Josiah's relationship did not last. I get the sense that it really did shake up everyone's faith when it came to Josh being the idea person that everyone wanted to mimic. But, in hindsight there were signs that something was amiss. Who would have thought it would be porn since they barely watch tv?!?

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On December 14, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Jeebusismycopilot said:

Or my poor parents who were stuck with 2 kids playing bagpipes, 1 tenor drum, trombone, oboe, 2 violins and a cello and the saddest sound of all... the first year french horn player. (Sounds like a dying moose - and that's if you are playing WELL)  

Beginning players on any instrument can be painful to hear and everyone is entitled to her own opinion. :content: But on behalf on horn players everywhere--:playful2:!!

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6 minutes ago, WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? said:

Beginning players on any instrument can be painful to hear and everyone is entitled to her own opinion. :content: But on behalf on horn players everywhere--:playful2:!!

Oh they were all horrible. I take ownership of the bagpipes, trombone, violin and french horn. I quit that one because it was brutal. I was pretty good with most instruments, but I could never get a decent sound from the french horn. It really just sounded like a wounded animal whenever I tried to play. 

I still play the bagpipes in a pipe band (and trust me, if they aren't tuned properly, or acclimatized to their surroundings (think cold Santa Claus Parade weather) they sound nasty - and many people will tell you they sound that way even if they are played well. Violin gets pulled out occasionally when I feel like proving I still know how, and the trombone gets used a few times a year playing in a brass ensemble that we threw together one night at a drunken reunion of our university ensemble.  

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@Jeebusismycopilot, I think my mom refused to let my sister learn violin because she didn't think she could stand hearing a beginning violinist. I guess she found a beginning flautist less painful. Maybe she had earplugs by the time I started the horn!

I enjoyed the year I played trombone, but I never put in enough effort to get good. Two of my siblings have learned to play a bagpipe chanter, but neither of them could afford the money or time to graduate to a set of pipes. Love me some bagpipes, but you're so right about tuning. I'm glad our local pipe band stopped marching in the winter parade.

It will be a few years before my oldest will get a chance to play recorder, or in band. I wonder how I'll do as the mom of a beginner. :my_biggrin:

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An experienced, good player playing a recorder is a joy to hear. A child blowing a toy recorder as hard as she can shrill is capable of   breaking one's eardrums and spirit. 

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We played the recorder when I was in elementary school. The fourth graders put on an entire recorder Christmas recital. And this was in Idaho in the mid-2000s, where the schools weren't necessarily known for their fantastic extracurricular education opportunities. I managed to luck out of that one by being one of the few in the class with past musical experience (I played the piano), so they let me keep rhythm on a "drum" (a turned-over bucket). 

Also, I attempted to learn the French horn when I was in high school. I was terrible and I hated the way it made my hand smell. I prefer huge and cumbersome instruments like the tuba and cello, apparently. But my cousin switched from flute to French horn when she got to high school, and she's fantastic at it. She was in All-state band all four years with the French horn. 

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The kids here all learn recorder in third to fourth grade, in part because they can choose a "real" instrument in fourth.  The music program here is really very active-  large orchestras and bands at all levels, and when they built the new middle school a few years back they included a really nice performance hall. 

Both my sons decided on flute, which was a problem in that I could only help them with a stringed instrument.  No idea what to do with a flute- you blow on it and press buttons, but beyond that it's a mystery to me.

#2 son gave up after a year since he never really got over the initial learning curve, but #1 son has become quite good.  Now that he's in ninth grade, he's also begun to realize that being the only guy who plays the flute in the band is a great thing.

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I'm glad to see so much traffic on this forum. It's hard to keep up. I didn't watch, but read Buzzard's and other reviews. Seems like a snooze fest interspersed with fake tears. 

:tw_dissapointed_relieved: :bedtime:

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15 hours ago, felinefundie said:

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Also, I attempted to learn the French horn when I was in high school. I was terrible and I hated the way it made my hand smell. I prefer huge and cumbersome instruments like the tuba and cello, apparently... snip

you're my musical twin! i played cello and tuba all through middle and high school, and started cello at 4. Rock on base clef!! that is all. 

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I did the recorder thing in elementary school, too, then played (for a very brief time) the trombone & piano. I wish I'd stuck w/the piano & hadn't been a brat about not practicing. I have picked up the ukulele & guitar, but I haven't done anything w/them as of yet. I need discipline. :P

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5 hours ago, InThePrayerCloset said:

you're my musical twin! i played cello and tuba all through middle and high school, and started cello at 4. Rock on base clef!! that is all. 

Bass clef instruments are awesome! Another cellist here! Played.through college and off and on since with community orchestras. :)

Also played clarient through high school but didn't keep that up. Wish I had done bass clarient instead, my son plays that now and like it so much more than the regular  clarient! 

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7 hours ago, InThePrayerCloset said:

you're my musical twin! i played cello and tuba all through middle and high school, and started cello at 4. Rock on base clef!! that is all. 

Hey, that's awesome!! The funny thing is, I actually started playing the cello when I was eleven because I thought I needed to become more familiar with the bass clef. Now, I'm practically useless at the treble clef and I can read bass clef in my sleep. So, I mean, it did work. Haha. 

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My mum taught me basic piano, (right hand only) and I self taught some chords for keyboards. I am not very good though and only know a handful of chords.

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All this discussion about recorders, and not ONE person mentioned the flutaphone?!?

Please tell me I am not the only one who started her musical "journey" using one of these gems:

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Alright, I want to be part of the instrument club, too haha 

I, too, was forced to had the honor of learning the recorder in grade 4 (I believe). I ditched it the second I could and picked up guitar and drums (my mother adored me for that one). While I did not enjoy the recorder (even though I was actually decent at it), I have to say it did come with the convenient side effect of learning to read music. So in the end I really appreciated that. Back then all I cared about was hockey and snowboarding though and so the recorder was definitely the most uncool thing I could have gotten stuck with...I offered to learn the triangle instead but apparently that was a silly idea. 

 

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6 hours ago, LadyCrow1313 said:

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 I need discipline. :P

Gahh! That line plus your avatar of Tim Curry in full "Rocky Horror Picture Show" makeup!

:laughing-lettersrofl: :laughing-rolling:

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2 hours ago, SpoonfulOSugar said:

All this discussion about recorders, and not ONE person mentioned the flutaphone?!?

Please tell me I am not the only one who started her musical "journey" using one of these gems:

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I learned the flutophone in fifth grade. It was lots of fun. Years later I played around with the alto recorder on my own (and with some friends who did guitar and drums) because of the flutophone.

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In Touch posted this about an hour ago.

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/jim-bob-michelle-duggar-baby-adoption-80955

My personal favorite highlight

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The source adds they’re open to anything, explaining, “Michelle says she doesn’t care if they adopt a boy or a girl, or what ethnicity the child is. She says she just wants to help a child’s life.”

I'm not saying that adoption isn't a good thing, because I firmly believe that if you have the means and you aren't a messed up person, you should absolutely do it if you feel pulled towards that way of expanding your family. What I am saying is that I don't think Jim Bob and Michelle would be good parents to anymore children, either through some miracle where J'chelle got pregnant or through adoption. They aren't even good parents to the ones they already have.

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It wouldn't really be them raising the child anyway - it would be Joy-Anna, Jinger and Jana. I wonder how THEY feel about adopting.

 

Sometimes I wonder what Michelle would do if the 3 oldest girls all found husbands (or had them found by Jim-Bob) in 2016, and moved out. Leave & cleave as they like to say... It makes for interesting speculation, although I'd feel sorry for the sub-par education they'd get.

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I sometimes hope that Jana has been talking to a guy who may not be Boob approved but because he fears that he may never get her married off to anyone, he'll allow it eventually. I'd really love for Jana to find a "worldly" guy (any of them really) but I just always get the feeling that under that controlled well-spoken Jana is a really cool girl who likes to laugh and have fun (without her sister kids sometimes). I could definitely see her wanting to travel the world (not as a missionary). I don't know...maybe I'm just making it all up but that's how I see her in my head.

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