When I was in high school, I decided I wanted to be in the school band. Not being especially musical, I chose to play drums. The day came for band practice, and I was given a kettle drum and some sticks, put in the 'Drum Room' and told to practice, which I did, all by myself for a couple of hours. My tenure with the school band lasted through three days of this. Today's instruction in music, according to this article, is somewhat more inspiring. "Students in the high school and the junior high work with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) connections, which are in essence keyboards hooked up to computers... Music technology expert David Mash of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, calls it a 'musical word processor.'" Yeah, my kind of instrument.
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