Music Therapy Clinician: Supporting reflective clinical practice Volume 1 | Page 30

there in terms of folks needing transportation and needing to make sure someone was paid and all kinds of stuff…it would have been way too complicated. So I guess that kind of gets into some of the challenges, and I wonder, and I realize I’m not saying this fully, but I’m wondering if you guys faced any challenges in terms of, I guess, I don’t know…just…challenges. Should I ask one person at a time, so we don’t get all jumbled. Go ahead. Roia: Christine, I’m going to pause you, because you’re breaking up again, and I wonder…I don’t know if you have to move closer to a wall or…or something, but I was just hoping that you’d be able to say what you have to say so that we can hear you better, because we want to hear you! Christine: don’t mind, Angela. Sure. You’re breaking up a little bit too, so I don’t know what it is about the quality of the connection, because I’m basically hovering over the phone. But it’s a little better now. Roia: Alright. Roia: Hm. I am sitting still. Well, Christine: I can start, if you Angela: Sure. let’s see. Keep going, I’ll see if I can find something on here that will help us. Christine: I think one of the Christine: challenges…we were sort of a stand-alone creative arts therapy organization, and so we sort of represented a music school - you know, there was art, music and movement therapy available at the site, but it was built with music and dance in mind, so the physical space wasn’t really a problem. And we, of course, I think, had…we were very fortunate to have enough support to sort of develop some of the things that we needed. Like, we needed to purchase a good quality piano that could travel, because, as you know, the quality of your performance [garbled] the piano accompaniment really depended on the quality of the piano. And if we’re going to travel and perform in other community locations, we didn’t want to be dependent on that…or leave that to chance, so we purchased a, I think, a really nice keyboard. Roia: Christine… Christine: Yes… 28 | P a g e Do I need to repeat anything that I already said? Roia: I’m pretty sure I heard something about you wanted to find a good quality piano to make sure that you guys Y]X[]B