Post from detroitblog

The little girl struggles to hold the heavy clarinet in her hands. Amira Chambers, all of 5 years old, sits inside the cold air of the Metro Music store, with her winter coat still on, and blows out one unsteady note after another as she learns her new instrument. Her teacher, wearing a knit hat and winter coat, points to a sheet of music and instructs her note by note. “F,” he says. She blows F. “F again,” he says. She d ...