How did it all started?

I learn music from an early age but for quite a long time I was not planning to become a musician. When I was at the beggining of elementary school I started to study the recorder. After two years of recorder studies when my parents asked me what would I want to study my dream was to become a bassoonist. I think now that the main reason for that was that the Hungarian National Television's night outro for the children's section, the famous TV Maci or TV Teddy in English had a music where the bassoon was the most important instrument. I embed here the video of it:

Somehow at the end I've ended up playing the clarinet. I don't exactly remember why but someone, my parents or some teacher at the music school, told me that it's not possible at such a young age to play the bassoon because it's too big. This was of course a lie, because there are little bassoons for children but I was not aware of those little bassoons at that time so I've started to play the clarinet. Altough in my dreams I am still a bassoonist sometimes, the clarinet was not at all a bad choice. It was also my choice, the second option after the bassoon. If you'd ask, dear reader, why I wanted to study so much a wind instrument there is also an explanation for that: because I was asthmatic as a child and the doctors advised us that it would maybe have a good effect on my lungs to study a woodwind instrument. Luckily the asthma has disappeared, no one knows if it was because of the clarinet, but anyway I've ended up playing it. Here is a picture of me playing the clarinet:

The clarinet was such a good choice that I've played it for 9 years. My first teacher was not a really kind one, but the second one I really liked. He has taken us to eat ice cream before the summer vacation every year. For some time I was also considering to go to the conservatory to study clarinet. (In Hungary conservatories are professional high schools specialized in music, not higher education insitutes.) So, these were my first steps in the world of classical music!