I need to add to that story. We live in a small town in cowboy country. No music not even a movie theater. A tourist town. Healing sulfur springs and mountains. We are both city people. He assumed he could never even find a music teacher of course. Pot dispensaries everywhere. But nothing for creativity like writing groups or music . Our own interests.
However, the universe works in strange ways. So does God. Turns out our next door neighbor is a music teacher at middle school.
Turns out she has a side job giving private music lessons. And guess what she teaches. Yup. Alto sax. There's a lesson here somewhere.