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This barber shopper was introduced to three
months of piano lessons at the tender age of five. Not to be discouraged
his parents tried another three months of lessons at the age of eight,
which confirmed that, a budding Mozart was not in the works.
Nevertheless, a love of music was instilled Dave, which resurfaced in
high school as he joined the high school's a cappella chorus.
Not until college post graduate work, on a teacher's credential, did
he actually get his first taste of barber shopping (as a tenor). A
highlight of that year's experience included singing barbershop songs
around a campfire during a chapter sponsored campout near Chico,
California. Singing in the San Francisco Spectacular with four hundred
barber shoppers on stage and singing the tenor part in the after glow of
that show, with a championship group featured in the show were other
outstanding highs.
During the next three decades some piano key plunking continued, but
no formal singing until the last decade. Off and on during the 1990's
Dave sang with his town's local singing group that had a pianist to
accompany them. In 1999, a new member to that group reintroduced this
come-back singer to barber shopping in the neighboring town of
Burlingame as a baritone. He found that the baritone part is
challenging, great fun, and very much akin to singing
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