1957 Drumpad, third grade, 1e&a 2e&a
1958 French horn
1964 Folk music, jug band, blues, etc.. guitar, bass, washboard, jug, kazoo, with Jerome Lipetzky
1966 High school marching band, french horn and baritone, with Mr. Schwarkov
1970 SDSU concert band, french horn and double bass, with Mr. Ross
1973 Buchla Box with Peter Middleton
1975 UCSD Center for Music Experiment with Mary Louise Blankenburg, Kenneth Gaburo, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, Warren Burt
1977 City Folk with Bill and Maria; Wayne Foster Music, bass guitar
1980 Inland Empire post punk rock (Freaks Amor) with Ricardo Acevedo
1995 Folk and Bluegrass with Valley Bluegrass Boys, Kay bass.
2003 Accordion and Vibraphone solo experimentation
2006 Discovered chris mann: www.theuse.info
2009 Shook hands with Laurie Anderson
2015 Kids music teacher, guitar, harmonica
2021 Watched "Sisters With Transistors" on Metrograph
Currently listening avidly to dj Phillippe at Modulisme Radio electro-acoustic modular synthesis et al..