A Piece of Humble Pie, served to whom?

2T is very musically inclined.

He started playing an instrument while in the 5th grade.  He decided on the flute.  DSH and I tried to talk him out of it, because the flute is a "girl" instrument.  2T disagreed, and so we rented a flute. I think the fact that his grandmother played the flute had a great influence on his choice.  He wanted his grandma to be proud of him.  He took flute lessons for 3 years, and became quite good at it.  He was in the 8th grade band while he was in 7th grade, and was 1st chair in the Junior High Honor band as an 8th grader.

That all changed when he got into High School.  Suddenly the flute was a "girl" instrument.  He didn't want to play it anymore, and we had just paid it off!  Such is life.   2T came home from band with stories of the "band teacher" wanting 2T to play the oboe. I am sure the band teacher did put a bug in 2T's ear, but it sure didn't have to work in very far.  DSH and I tried to talk him our of it, but 2T disagreed, so we rented an oboe.  He took oboe lessons for that year, and at the end of the year, he went to a state high school solo competition.  DSH and I told him to go and have fun, and not to expect to place.  We told him that he would see other oboists that have been playing a lot longer than he had.  We told him to watch and learn from the experience.

He was gone for two days, and had a blast.  He went with some of his best friends in the band.  He played Georg Philipp Telemann's Sonata in A Minor, movements  2 and 4. He played it well.  He played it so well that he was awarded 2nd place in the state of Idaho, as a Freshman at the age of 14.