Gustavo Dudamel: You know, as a child you see this beautiful gold instrument, you know, in front of you that makes that beautiful and powerful sound. I was conquered by that. I wanted to play salsa like my father. You know? Classical music was, of course, the way to learn things, but I wanted to play in a salsa group like him. And yes, it’s still one of my favorite instruments. At that time, you know, Sistema was founded, it was maybe the second site of El Sistema created by Maestro Abreu was Barquisimeto because also he was from, he was studying in Barquisimeto music when he was, when he was a child. And of course, the Sistema was starting, we didn’t have many resources at that time, and we have only one trombone at home, and it was too big for me. It was impossible for me to play. And I try, you know, I wait. I study solfège for a long time. I study harmony. I study all of this theoretical musical things, you know. And then I was waiting, and I wanted to play an instrument. I was desperate. Because I knew it, the notes, I knew it, you know the technical things to build something, but you need to play an instrument. And of course, I was trying with the piano, but I wanted to play another instrument, and like, like the trombone. And I tried the trumpet for like three weeks or something like that. It didn’t work. And there was a violin and in the orchestra spanning, it’s funny, at the Sistema side, in Barquisimeto there were, there were more violins, so they gave me one violin, which I tried. And all my friends were playing violin, so it was, it was wonderful to be with them. And yeah, I changed to the violin because my arm was too short.