....never comes out the way you thought it would. Judging by the manuscript scores of the great composers, not many can write it perfectly first time. 

Yes, it would be very daunting to have someone like Maglor teach you music! So easy to imagine that he never had to learn anything himself.

I am amused at the kazoo! You seem to have substituted a slightly more expected instrument, although his brother's reaction rather suggests the kazoo...