Making Music

I must share this really funny music story. Years ago when we had our music group and choir, we used to sing in church services and programs.We used to play the guitar, drums, bass,Indian instruments like the tabla, sitar, flute and harmonium.One of our friends (an absent minded psychology student)couldn't sing but just about managed to play the accordion.

S0 for one of our church programmes I asked him to accompany us with his old accordion and I would play the guitar.We practised two or three songs that we had to sing,and I told everybody the sequence we would sing them in.

When our time came we organized ourselves in front and began song number one.After a few seconds I noticed S was playing a completely different tune on his accordion oblivious to what the choir was singing.As discretely as possible I edged up to him and asked him to change to the song we were currently singing. "Oh really" he smiled and nodded his head clearly enjoying the music, but he could not switch to the correct music.He played the wrong song through out much to my chagrin, and nobody could do a thing about it.It seemed the singers drowned out the accordion because the audience appreciated our song.Thank goodness we were not performing on Indian Idol or something!