At the age of 5.5, as he attended first grade, Matti began taking flute lessons and then mandolin, but once he had heard Samuel Gogol playing the Harmonica, he insisted on his parents getting him his own, having been convinced of his ability to play the Harmonica himself. "I've been a bad student in school, I was odd, but a truth telling odd. I used to love laziness and everything about it made me feel good. My parents were always told: "He has the ability but not the will" and I told them that it was true