Don’t stop the music for our children who need it

I READ with much sadness about the demise of music lessons, both private and as part of the school curriculum (“Swansong for child music lessons”, March 12).

My first private piano lesson was at the age of six in 1949. It cost my mother one shilling and sixpence which she could ill afford, since my father was killed in the Second World War and money was scarce.

My mother then bought me a reconditioned piano of my own which I still have 69 years later. It became my second main subject at university, the other being RE. I taught both of these at secondary school for 44 years until retirement.

What a shame these two key subjects are being watered down and nudged out of existence.

Dorothy White, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffs