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A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Grove moved to Lafayette as a child. Her father, Troy, a singer, and mom, Annelle, now 92, were East Bay social workers. Grove began playing piano at 6, then added flute, guitar, glee-club singing and dance."My parents decided to Ferrari GMT Automatic FF-9 everything at the wall and see what stuck," she said. "I might have focused more on piano and singing if I hadn't been derailed by hand bells."
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At 45, Grove decided to try Mills College again. This time, she was better-prepared. She showed up with two bells and declared: "I want to major in this.""An admissions official kind of scratched his head and said, 'Well, we have a gamelan ensemble,' " Girard-Perregaux Ferrari Collection GP-6 said. " 'You can try that.' "She did. While working and ringing, she completed her degree in five years. Her groups -- she helped found Berkeley's Sonos Handbell Ensemble in 1990 and started Velocity as a sextet in 2001 -- have played with Bay Area orchestras and choruses
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