A Doorway to Learning
This is the opening of a blog post written by a principal, Jim Warnock, who keeps a blog called Principal Notes Thoughts About Education.
Two sixteenth notes followed by two eighth notes. The interval was a perfect fourth, though I didn’t know that at the time. What I did know, at twelve years old, was that I was hooked on that sound. I leaned over to my mother and said, “I want to play those.” I was pointing at the timpani, sometimes called kettledrums. That concert changed the course of my life.
It’s worth the read at A Doorway to Learning.