JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for September 09, 2015

Just wait until they start taking up the piano!

Can you play the tune “chopsticks” on the piano using chopsticks?

As Bruce Leroy demonstrated, the true test of chopstick mastery is popcorn.

“Just wait until you see what they do with Jello.”

My family were the only non-Chinese using chopsticks in a Chinese restaurant in Aachen, Germany during re-unification.

LambergerThe main problem is that the clicking on the keys is often louder than the piano, and distracting anyway. I have done it, which may be why my main instrument is trombone.

I learned to use chopsticks eating at sushi places with the grandkids, but my hands quickly unlearned it, when not practicing a lot.

Teaching kids to use chopsticks isn’t so hard.… cleaning up after themselves, well …