User blog comment:Linathan/Birthday Special: Q&A/Ask Linathan!/@comment-27508440-20150620184043/@comment-27508440-20150622031320

I've started playing the trumpet 3 1/2 years ago, the piano, about 6 1/2 years ago

I went to  2 competitions with my school band at Santa Cruz and at Disneyland.

The piano, eh, I went to several recitals.

Yet the adjudicators still comment that when I attempt to play softly in our songs, it is more like mezzo forte..