xylophone (Photo credit: Cheryl Harvey)
Then, last night, I dreamt of the alphabet cards I had when I was in nursery school. They were thick cards each having a letter of the alphabet, a word that started with the letter of the alphabet, and a very colorful illustration of the particular word. For the letter X, the word was xylophone. And, come to think of it, I had a toy xylophone! There it is! My "X" word... Xylophone! Oh what a relief... :)
I had this small, teeny toy xylophone that had 8 colorful metal plates which I could play using two skinny wooden sticks. It was about a foot high (it had thick wires to make it stand) and I used to treat it like it was the most wonderful piece of art.
I was never really good at playing musical instruments but I had learned some simple things on the piano which I managed to translate onto my toy xylophone. Suffice it to say that it drove everyone in the house crazy hearing me play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" day in and day out. But... I have to admit that I could play it pretty well!
After a few months, I managed to learn to play the first few notes of "Yesterday" but, sadly, my talents never went beyond that.