I play the harmonica, alto sax, clarinet, and flute. Dan Kimel At 02:59 PM 3/31/2000 EST, you wrote: >I didn't grow up close to the rest of our family's Kimmels, but I do play the >piano and always loved it--made up lots of my own tunes, etc. (in my more >grandiose moments I call it composing) and thought I was the only one. Then >I was given some sheet music Daddy's Aunt Rose Kimmel Kauffman had had >published. Her songs tended to be highly patriotic (belligerent?) marches >written around WW 1 about how we must beat the Kaiser and the Huns. So I >thought there were two of us. Then I went to a Kimmel reunion where they >handed out songbooks of hymns and ditties composed by Aunt Anna Kimmel >Sanders and by her brother, Uncle Ray Kimmel. And I heard stories about >evenings around the piano with everybody singing.... So now I figure it's >part of being a Kimmel. (Of course, it seems to have missed my >siblings--they paint and sculpt and draw.) > >Jan T > >