Happy Birthday Leslie.

We hope you have a wonderful day.  In honor of your love of music we are sending you pictures of the musical instruments that have been introduced to us here in Africa .   We think you would be proud of our music students.  Rand has been very eager to drive me out to Walukaba for the class I teach every Sat.  Now if I could just get him to play the keyboard too.

This "Thumb board" has keys played like it was a piano.  The sound is a bit cheap as it is a tourist item, quite African.  The main african instrument is a bongo drum.  We hear them every morning and once in a while all night.  They play them very musically.  I didn't think to take a picture of one.  You might guess why.

Demonstration on how to make music with this African instrument.  We haven't seen many instruments till today a man being driven somewhere had a guitar.  The guitar was flying down the road with no case.  I didn't have a camera to get the picture.

This is another cheap sounding instrument that reminds us of a harp.  We didn't get it's name

We started our music lesson out on the porch of the Walukia chapel last Sat because no one had the key.   Eunice and Luke are the students.  Eunice has been to every lesson.  She is loving learning and teaching others.  Luke will be leaving on a mission soon to Gana.  He has a natural talent and his mother wants him to teach her.

Here we are inside finally.  Luke was amazing with his first lesson.  His fingers could move separately from each other which is not the case with other beginners

Eunice has a key board that I have leant her to take home.  She sees that the other students get some time to practice too.  She is advancing quickly and loves every new thing she learns.