Susan Douglass Taylor

Susan Douglas Taylor has been making music since she was old enough to climb on a piano bench. Recognizing her ability to play by ear, parents George and Clyde Douglass enrolled her in piano lessons at an early age. Her teacher was renowned composer Nelle McMaster Sprott, whose belief it was to encourage creativity and make learning fun. On Susan's eleventh birthday, her parents gave her a guitar, and older sister Lynne taught her some chords. At age seventeen, she discovered a love for the 5-string banjo, her father's favorite instrument.