Robert Seale, MD

Instructor of Guitar, Baritone Ukulele

MD Washington University

A graduate of Washington University School of Medicine, Robert Seale, MD, or "Dr. Bob" to his younger audience, is a board-certified Emergency Medicine specialist, having spent the bulk of his medical career here in Seattle as the head of his downtown emergency physician group. However, music, specifically the guitar, has been part of his life since his teenage years. 

From his student days as a tour boat pilot in Glacier Park and later as a National Park Ranger, he entertained passengers and hotel guests with his playing and singing, earning money for his college and medical school years. He performed in musical venues in St Louis and Portland during his medical training before settling in Seattle. He is honored to have been asked to perform at the St Louis Gateway Arch before Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, gave her first public speech the year after the death of her husband. 

Dr Seale's singing and playing style derives from the early folk-rock-blues musicians, and is especially skilled at leading students toward a finger-picking style of guitar, well suited to both accompanying vocal performances or development of classical guitar skills. He also teaches starter lessons on the baritone ukulele which can be a simpler instrument to master - but has the advantage of chord structure that translates straight to the guitar. 

Bob, a native Northwesterner, and his wife Audrey, travel extensively when the spirit moves them. Weekly lessons may be interrupted occasionally due to out of town commitments, however extra material can be provided to make those gaps in lessons productive. 

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