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TI: So we're going to start the second half of the interview. So we're back with Eiko and Yoshiko. Before we go to the war, I was trying to get a sense, here you had all these kids, and were there any kind of activities like music that the two of you did growing up? So Yoshiko, was there like any music that you did?

YN: Yes, we took piano lessons.

TI: So explain that, so you had piano lessons. At the house, did you have a piano?

YN: Yes. Our father purchased a piano, so both of us went to town every Saturday to take lessons. He paid seven dollars, wasn't it seven dollars for both of us?

EN: He paid monthly.

YN: Monthly, huh?

TI: And so the two of you would... well, so I know where your, the house is. Going to town is a pretty...

YN: It was the house before that, Victorian.

TI: But still, it's a pretty far walk to town. And so you guys would walk to town to take piano lessons. And was it just the two of you or did anyone else...

YN: Just the two of us.

TI: And then you would come home, and did you play for the family, the two of you?

EN: [Laughs] That's what the problem was.

YN: We were spoiled.

EN: Yeah. Before we'd go for our lessons, we really struggled hard to practice, both of us.

YN: I guess we weren't a musician, true musician. She was really good, Eiko.

TI: So Eiko was a better piano player?

EN: No. I took lessons in camp again. But once you get married, you have no time for that. [Laughs]

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