I started playing with a toy Emenee chord organ very young, around the age of 5, and began taking lessons at 9. I was very driven and practiced all the time (maybe because I was so bad at sports) and went through private teachers quickly. By the age of 14 I was playing professionally, both solo gigs (with an arranger organ - I even won my junior high school talent show with one!) and in local teen bands - one of which was very popular. My parents decided that since I was doing so well they would start my younger brother on guitar. He took lessons for three months before coming home one day and handing the guitar to my mother and saying "I quit". I picked up his guitar and have played ever since, mostly acoustic. I'm fairly proficient and have played guitar in many bands along with my keyboards, which have always been my primary instrument. Today I have an Ovation acoustic/electric and mostly play guitar for my own recordings and amusement.

BTW: noone else in my family is even remotely musical - something we've all puzzled over. It was lucky that my father and his mother decided to buy me that little chord organ when I was young.