Undergraduate / Short answer for common app about music [9]

I'm really struggling to get this short answer part of the common app done. Here's what I've come up with so far...

Music is universal; it speaks to everyone in a different sense, influencing them in a completely original way. Playing music gives power of expression, relieves stress, teaches simple engineering technique, and how to work with other people.

Learning to play guitar as well as I have with no formal instruction is one of my proudest accomplishments. The freedom of expression, sense of accomplishment I get after perfecting an intricate song and the positive reactions of listeners all bring about an incomparable feeling. In the past five years I have played with many musicians that further enhanced both their skills and mine by playing together. Guitar has taught me basic engineering because they need to be fixed from time to time. Whether it's broken strings, loose knobs, broken inputs, or something else, by some process I had to figure out how to fix it if I wanted to keep playing.

That's around 149 words, just under the maximum requirement. Feedback please!?!?

...I'm kind of stuck there, any ideas?