This may be TL;DR!
I play classical guitar. I started when I was six years old (on a baritone uke that had its four strings tuned like the top four on a guitar) because I was too small for a guitar. My first teacher had also been a kindergarten teacher so she was a good match. I learned chords, but from the very beginning I was taught to read standard notation using Alfred Method books. After a couple of years, my mom located a young man who was a classical guitar student at our local college, and I started taking lessons from him. I had lessons until I was 17 and moved from Florida to Arkansas - no teacher for me there.
Sometime around age 13 I thought I wanted to major in music. Because of this I started taking piano lessons as I knew I’d have to pass a piano proficiency exam. I was a pretty quick study, but it was still frustrating because I could read anything, but couldn’t play anything. And adding the bass clef thing later in life was challenging. I’d also never studied music theory which is something most piano teachers insist on. I took lessons for a couple of years and decided a music major wasn’t for me because I didn’t feel I could have the financial security I wanted. My band instrument (five years) was flute, and I played bassoon one year. The bass clef learning from the piano helped with that!
There have been times in my life that I played my guitar less frequently, but I have never stopped playing. In college, I played in on-campus coffee houses. I never really enjoyed live performance (nerves).
After ds was born, I knew I wanted him to play piano as a FIRST instrument. I do think it is the best instrument to learn first because it teaches reading in both clefs and includes theory from the get-go. He started at age four. He’s really quite good and has perfect pitch. A combo of natural talent and a strong work ethic. He, too, considered music as a major but also dismissed the idea by the time he was a junior in high school. He won the state piano competition his senior year. It’s his only instrument. Like me, he still plays (he’s 29). I think for both of us, it serves as a type of therapy.
Anyway, because I knew he’d have to do live performances through piano recitals, I wasn’t going to ask him to do anything I wouldn’t do myself, I started playing in church. I did that for many years - as a soloist, in a duet with both flute and cello, and even in a praise band (I do NOT sing). So, I became much more consistent in playing then.
I think one of the reasons I dislike live performing was because my mother always wanted me to play for people - to show me off. When ds started taking lessons, I told him I would probably ask him to play for people, but he always had the freedom to say, “No.” He never turned me down, and he is a natural performer.
An arranger/composer friend asked me to start a YouTube channel to post his works. I did that about fifteen years ago. During Covid I posted two pieces a week. I have over 300 videos on there. Since I never learned to like live performing (even though I did it), it’s a perfect way for me to share my music. I can do as many takes as I want to get something (while not perfect) that I can live with. Being classically trained means I can play most anything. I rarely play standard rep anymore. I have a modest number of subscribers, though one video, (“Nothing Else Matters,” by Metallica) has over 20,000 views (still modest by YT standards - ha ha). I’m also in a large Facebook group called Old Guitar Pickers.
Told ya’ - TL;DR 
Edit: I now play in the handbell choir at church.
