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[breatheinthefog]

Before the end of the school year, Prospero Middle School is holding something called "grad" for everybody in my year. It's supposedly something to commemorate the fact that we're moving up into the high school after summer vacation. I'd normally consider this pointless, but it sounds interesting, so I'm doing it.

They have open auditions for musical performances and accompaniment at the ceremony.

*Kaoru pauses.*

Of the two people I would have asked about this before the mass vanishment, both are gone, and I only liked one anyway. As for my classmates, judging from the songs and chants they enjoy performing in the hallway for their own amusement, I'll get nothing useful from them. I have no interest in learning why there would be joy to the world if the school burned down, who this Barney individual is whom everybody wants to kill, or who declared beans to be the magical fruit.

Captives of Prospero. Tell me how to play an instrument.

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[everydayimshovelin]

[ Wow, what is she talking about for that last part? Yukiho doesn't quite get it, but nonetheless, she chimes in with a bright smile. ]

Oh! Congratulations on graduating! I can... teach you some basics in playing a piano, though I'm afraid I'm only a beginner too....

[breatheinthefog]

*Yukiho has never grown up with such playground classics as "Joy to the World, the School Burned Down"? Does she at least know "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"? D:*

You play the piano, then.

[everydayimshovelin]

[ Yukiho is too busy dancing and singing! ]

Ah... but I'm not graduating...

[breatheinthefog]

So?

[everydayimshovelin]

Umm... well... wouldn't the students graduating play at that ceremony?...

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[soulsborderline]

Playing an instrument isn't just something you can pick up in a week, idiot. It takes years of practice and training, like anything else worthwhile.

[breatheinthefog]

I've managed fine before.

[soulsborderline]

What do you mean, "managed fine before"?

[breatheinthefog]

Learning things quickly. It's simpler than most people think.

[soulsborderline]

Oh, so you think you're a prodigy too, huh?

Bet you can't learn violin in a week.

[truthsnomiracle]

Musical instruments take time and effort to learn, though the amount of each varies depending on the complexity of the instrument. Do you already know how to read sheet music?

[breatheinthefog]

I can.

*That's supposed to mean "I can learn inhumanly quickly", but feel free to have him take it as "I know how".*

[truthsnomiracle]

Very well. I know how to play both the piano and the flute, though I'm out of practice with the former.

[breatheinthefog]

The piano is common, isn't it?

[truthsnomiracle]

Indeed. Its sound is well-liked, it has a very wide range -- the full extent of which requires no particular skill to access -- and it can play several notes at once with only the player's handspan and reach as restrictions, making it an outstanding solo instrument. On the other hand, pianos are expensive even for musical instruments, lack in portability, and the best of them require a great deal of space.

[thanklesswork]

Ask Zia.

[breatheinthefog]

Right. She plays the guitar.

[thanklesswork]

Harp guitar.

[breatheinthefog]

There are types?

[thanklesswork]

Dunno. Never cared much for music growin' up.

[buildthatwall]

If you want to learn, Kaoru, I know how to play the guitar.

[breatheinthefog]

...That was her instrument.

[buildthatwall]

Your friend? She had a good instrument.

[breatheinthefog]

I don't know if she was my friend. She said she wanted to be.

[buildthatwall]

I think so. She sounds... like she wanted to be.