NGU Music Teacher Wins New Instrument Contest What new instruments will we see in music stores next?
One could certainly be the creation of a North Greenville Uni- versity adjunct professor who recently made it into the ranks of today’s most innovative instrument makers.
Keith Groover, who teaches guitar in NGU’s Cline School of Music, has been playing instruments of all shapes and sizes since he was five.
“I started out on the piano when I was really little and then switched over to the trombone in elementary school. I started playing guitar when I was in ninth grade and then things like the electric bass and the upright bass and the French horn — kind of a lot of random instruments. Te banjo, the accordion, that kind of thing,” he trails off, as if there’s more he could list.
But Groover says his family didn’t have “a ton of money” when he was growing up. And, as anyone who’s signed their kids up for music lessons can tell you, new instruments easily run into the thousands. So, as he took interest in one instrument after the next, he would either have to find a cheap rental or, more often, borrow an instrument from a friend.
By the time he was in high school, Groover had a pile of these borrowed instruments. In fact, one day, when his parents were showing their house, one of the potential buyers asked, pointing at the pile, “Do you have a family band?”
“My parents said, ‘No, it’s just our teenage son playing all these instru- ments,’” Groover laughs.
No one was surprised when he decided to study music composition at the University of South Carolina and then pursue a career as a music director and teacher.
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