Short update, more to come later
Alice has made a sound for the firt time. It was produced by Gemma, who seems impressed with my purchase; she allocated half of today's voice lesson to clarinet, and I ended up producing sounds out of Alice myself. Not many, not consistently, but a start.

Interestingly we did nothing but warmups designed to help with tuning in the voice part of the lesson, and these seemed rather useful. Some kind of aural tests will happen next week, apparently.

Later today, I shall start writing 'Alice's diary', which is rather exaggerating the personification of her but there we go.