What instrument(s) do you know how to play.

[Longgrain]

Since I can't play any, and have no talent for music.

Tell me what you've got.

[xultar]

1. Flute, Cello, Bagpipes. NO KIDDING n/t

[Quakerfriend]

12. Bagpipes, eh? Very cool.

One of my fondest childhood memories is of our neighbor (16 year-old Ricky Shilling) walking up and down the sidewalk every Sunday morning playing the bagpipes in full Scottish dress!

[xultar]

27. I played for my high school. Highland High...I loved the full dress

uniforms. Some of my best experience with music.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

54. When I die, can you play my funeral?

[xultar]

94. Sure,, that is an honored somber request. Let's hope it is +80 years

down the road

[Longgrain]

14. As a Kinder-gardener, we we forced to play the "Recorder"

a long plastic flute, and give an ear splintering recital to our parents.

That pretty much set the stage for my music career after that.

[MuseRider]

19. Recorder is

a very old and very cool instrument but I agree, little kiddies and recorders can be pretty bad.

[xultar]

28. YUP! I had the same experience in pre-k and k. That is what made

me wanna get into music in the first place.

[liberalhistorian]

33. Lucky you, playing the cello!

I love that instrument. I play the flute, too. I've never liked the bagpipes, though. Ever hear P.D.Q. Bach's "Concerto for Bagpipes and Banjo?" It's one of the most hilariously awful pieces of music I've ever heard, like all of their stuff.

[goodboy]

65. there's always room for CELLO! HAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHA

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

58. Hey! I play pipes too!

And sax, clarinet, flute, oboe, guitar, bass (poorly), & keyboards (poorly).

[Sabriel]

2. Trumpet, badly

I mean really, really badly. There's a reason I was a third trumpet all those years ago in high school.

[Left Is Write]

3. I can play piano, but only as far as four years of lessons got me.

[Longgrain]

I've never had any lessons, but I know the the scales

that's about as far as I've gotten too.

[Amaya]

4. I collect vintage drums

my ex taught me how to play.

[Quakerfriend]

5. flute and piano here.

[Welsh_Princess]

6. Clarinet, Sax, and Piano

But I haven't played in long while.

[Lannes]

10. Guitar not very well.Work with music creation software mostly

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. I used to play guitar.

I had a very ornate Washburn Malibu(with Abalone inlay) that Washburn gave me. It was stolen. Along with many other valuable things and family heirlooms.

I don't play now. Don't have a guitar.

[gollygee]

8. I played the flute in high school marching band

That's it, and not that well.

[JanMichael]

9. I played the French Horn and trumpet up until I was 17.

Now at 37 I have lost those skills, bummer. Although guitar or piano would've been easier to keep up.

[Zuni]

11. My main insturment is bass

but I can play guitar, piano, drums and harmonica

[nytemare]

13. Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contra Bass Clarinet, Alto Clarinet,

Soprano clarinet. Clarinet, clarinet, clarinet. It has been about 5 years since I have played, but I had the distinct honor of playing the clarinet and bass clarinet for our High School production of "Bye Bye Birdie" with none other than Wayne Brady in the lead role! Great guy.

I had mush mouth for about a month after that, though. Switching instruments that quick is hard on the lippies.

[johnnie]

15. Mainly guitar

I can play bass enough to get me by. I also have and play (half-assed) piano, harmonica, mandolin, banjo and Dobro. I have a few other musical odd-ball things around that I play around with.


On edit: I forgot about drums. I have a set here and play them a bit.

[SOteric]

16. Are you telling me you can't play the tamborine?!

I don't believe it.

I play piano and melodic percussion (bells, vibes, glockenspiel, etc), percussion, flute and piccolo.

[Longgrain]

22. Who me? I'm actually quite fluid in the tambourine.

In fact, it's my favorite instrument--slapping the skins against my waist.

In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come following you...

:7

[NC_Nurse]

17. My voice

and a little bad guitar.
My husband and I were in a band for several years in the '90's. He's the musician....guitar, bass, piano, drums...disgusting. I just don't have the patience. I love to sing though.

Wish we had time these days.
Seems we're too busy trying to pay the bills and get kids raised......

[MuseRider]

18. Had to learn all of the

usual band and orchestra instruments to get my degree. Learn one and the others just sort of come. Some not so good some pretty good. Other than that I can play the dulcimer.

[Abelman]

20. Guitar, trumpet

learning harmonica, want to learn ukulele, banjo, and mandolin. Can also play a little alto sax and piano.

[Squeech]

21. Guitar

and guitar-related program activities, chiefly bass and mandolin.

Also piano and keyboard things, and marimba, but not so well.

And I've been known to play pennywhistle, and percussion.

[Longgrain]

24. Hey Squeech. Actually, it was our discussion earlier today,

About poly-talent, that inspired me to post this.

:hi:

[Squeech]

50. In that case

let me blather some about the character of the various instruments. I once picked up a book somewhere about choosing an instrument for your kid, which of course is wasted on me since I never reproduced, but the ideas in it are interesting. One of the key concepts is how well you relate to being part of the crowd. Music, like dance and theatre, and unlike painting and writing, is a performance art-- you're doing it in front of other people and/or in the company of other people (unless you're a sociopathic loner like Muslimgauze). But there are degrees of this amongst the instruments: violins tend to get clustered into sections (unless they recast the instrument as a fiddle), whereas there's not much call for pianists to congregate. The piano, the acoustic guitar (folk or classical), and the bagpipes are the best known instruments for which there's a substantial body of solo performance; practically everything else assumes that you're going to work with an ensemble. (Unless you took up the cello just so you could play Bach's sonatas or something.)

There are personality traits associated with various instruments. Trumpets are all about bravura and showing off, basses are all about stability and infrastructure. Athletic (or hyperactive) kids might relate to drums, whereas well behaved and/or sedentary kids might be happy with the oboe, which is all about control and finesse (not to mention the delicate craft of carving the reeds).

Anyway, I took up the guitar because it was the folk literature of our day. (I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and started haranguing my parents that I wanted to play that music; they got me a guitar for my birthday.) Growing up in those fabulous '60s was a great time to learn the guitar, because the craft of what got played on the radio was growing at roughly the same rate I was: when the Byrds were hot, I could do that; when Jethro Tull was the great new thing, I learned to do that. I was also fortunate to have friends with similar skills and interests to play in garage bands with, so we all taught each other and critiqued each other. Often I lost the argument about who had to suffer the two string penalty and play the bass, and most of the time now I indentify as a bassist. There are days when the bass just responds perfectly to what I want it to do (not often), and when that happens it makes me very happy. Jaco Pastorius used to talk about making his bass sing, and if I look upward and squint I can kinda see the possibility of doing it myself someday-- if I could shed all my other obligations and just practice 12 hours a day.

I taught myself piano at a time when most of my favorite music had elaborate keyboard parts (Procol Harum, Traffic, Tull etc.), and I was also starting to think about maybe writing my own music some day and considering that the piano was the composer's laboratory bench. (I have a picture hanging up in my study at home, of Stravinsky at his piano.) I was never really rigorous about practicing, though. At the beginning of the '80s I joined this band (which I forevermore referred to as "the stupid band") as keyboard player-- I bought a Fender Rhodes electric piano, a MicroMoog synthesizer, and the world's cheesiest Japanese combo organ-- and managed to baffle 'em with bullshit about half the time, but I was largely out of my depth.

I got the marimba (a ricketty eighty year old instrument with only two octaves) from a friend who was an improvising bass player, who needed to accumulate some cash in a hurry and buy a car. I'd always been mildly fascinated with mallet percussion, and even more so after exposure to the music of a guy named Harry Partch, who you all should check out. Partch had the idea that a musical concert should involve as many of the arts as possible-- the musicians should wear interesting costumes, move in dancerly ways, declaim poetry, maybe interact in dramatic ways, etc. And he built his own instruments, a whole orchestra's worth, mostly unlike conventional instrumentation, and the majority of them were percussion. So I thought his notions were really valuable, and the idea of the marimba or xylophone, where you enjoy the physicality of drumming but you don't have to give up notes, was really compelling. But again, I don't practice consistently, so my technique is laughable.

Lately I've been thinking about getting a band together just to play '60s rock, and I want to play guitar, not bass, in this band-- so I've been practicing the guitar trying to get my old chops back.

[name not needed]

23. bass

[RamblingRose]

25. Flute & piccolo - Go Chiefs!!!!

In high school the people in the band were referred to as band geeks. In college they were the big time partiers!

[FuzzySlippers]

26. Flute and recorder.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Piano

I'm thinking about learning to play the guitar now. It'd be alot easier to fit in my car. :D

[goodboy]

70. Hello my fellow penis..er...pianist. (nt)

[GOPisEvil]

73. Put your piano on a trailer!

We'll tow ya around town! Hold on for sharp curves though! :o

[Chemical Bill]

30. I play a mean stereo...

and I own a guitar (well, 3). I know some chords and amuse myself. What I really love is to sing!

Bill

[evlbstrd]

31. Spoons!

[liberalhistorian]

96. OMG!

LOL, I forgot all about that "spoons" craze when I was little! Those were funny, and even funnier when you think about it now.

[liberalhistorian]

32. I've played the piano for 35 years

and the flute for nearly thirty years. I tried the guitar in high school, but didn't really like it. I'd also love to learn to play the cello and the clarinet some day.

The clarinet was what I really wanted to play beginning in 5th grade band, but I couldn't blow the reed at all, so they stuck me with the flute, which I could make a sound out of. I was pissed at first, but grew to really love the flute. And it's fun to be able to play the piano, too. My son now plays the piano, drums, and guitar.

[goodboy]

78. Sweet! What kind of piano do you have? (nt)

[liberalhistorian]

97. Just a regular upright, unfortunately.

I've always wanted a grand or baby grand, but there's no way in hell I could ever afford one. The one I have now cost more than enough.

[goodboy]

98. what make is it? If you're looking for a used grand I could try and

find one for you.

[RPM]

34. the radio

Also windows media player.

I got skillz

[BiggJawn]

35. Flute, Sax, Clarinet, Recorder, Whistle, Fife, semi-automatic...

...telegraph key...
and that last one has been the most difficult to play well.

Wish I still had my axes. Reagan-nomics got the Flute and Sax, and depression has pretty much killed any desire to keep up with the others...

Should have never sold that Buescher Low-Pitch. Man, that was a PHAT horn!

[last_texas_dem]

36. Percussion instruments, in various degrees

I can play snare and bass drums, timpani, cymbals, and xylophone/marimba/vibes. I'm very slow at the last ones, though. Also, even though I can play all of the parts of one I have never mastered playing a drumset altogether. And I haven't played any of these much for about four years so I'm not too hot at any of them!

[bobthedrummer]

37. I've got a Tama Rockstar kit with a 20" Paiste Dry Crisp ride, a 16"

Zildjian Custom A crash and 13" Paiste Sound Formula hihats.
A basic drum kit. I'm Bob, the drummer. I'm married to Charron, the bass player. Regardless of whoever else is with us, we are The Books Banned. People have told us we play "music to get pregnant to".
O8)

[leftofthedial]

38. guitar

piano

most keyboards

bass

all sorts of hand drums and percussion (I suck with sticks).

It's not just a job. It's a storage shed.

I'm a singer.

:shrug:

[specimenfred1984]

39. Electric Bass

Which means I'm much, much cooler than you! Now if I just worked at a music store, I could act cooler when you walked in.

[name not needed]

82. Not if you use a pick

:D

[enigmatic]

40. guitar, bass, harmonica, dulcimer

trying to learn piano, but I'm plodding along..

[sakabatou]

41. Trumpet, Piano, Recorder, taiko drums, (shell) trumpet, shofar

[arwalden]

42. One Of These

[arwalden]

43. And These

[Redstone]

62. Ouch! Just looking at the Jew's harp makes my

fillings hurt.

Redstone

[Bouncy Ball]

91. Yeah, my brother had one when we were kids and we chipped

more of our damn teeth trying to play that thing.

Didn't Charlie Brown play it?

[LifeDuringWartime]

44. i know a few

electric bass
clarinet
guitar (sort of)
piano (sort of)

[marzipanni]

45. I can play a lousy musical saw

Like you, I have no talent for music, but I was taught the proper basics on how to play the saw from a very accomplished player (you heard him playing opening and closing title theme music in the movie 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'). Occasionally I pull out my cello bow and let loose with some wicked sounds that actually make me feel real good, mostly when I'm home alone....

[deadparrot]

46. Flute and pennywhistle (tinwhistle).

I took the accordion for a short time when I was little, but I sucked.

[Redstone]

47. Banjo, mandolin, autoharp, dulcimer, and guitar.

Redstone

[Robeson]

48. Guitar, electric bass, and some percussion instruments.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. Violin, a little piano, bowed psaltry, and long ago, the trombone

:nopity:

[VelmaD]

51. Piano, clarinet, flute, percussion...

I started with piano when I was so little I don't even remember. I was a serious pianist for many years and originally was able to go to college on a piano scholarship.

I took up clarinet in 6th grade when I started band. Learned to play flute from my best friend in the 8th grade. And had always played around a bit with percussion but took it up seriously in 10th grade and was good enough to get into both the Sea World of Texas band in high school and the "Goin' Band From Raiderland" at Texas Tech...not an easy feat.

[luvLLB]

52. bass and guitar

[jswordy]

53. French horn, E-flat horn, trumpet, coronet

i played all those at one time in my life.

FULL DISCLOSURE: It has been years, tho.

[sexybomber]

55. Seven, in fact.

Four pretty well (clarinet, tenor sax, guitar, bass)
Two not so well (piano, drums)
One very badly (flute)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

56. Trombone, Baritone, Guitar

...and I'm starting to fool around with the Mandolin just for kicks.

[Andy_Stephenson]

57. Juice Harp

[Misunderestimator]

59. Piano, trumpet, guitar...in order of best to worst

also in order of years played... 37, 10, 1

[lukasahero]

60. Most of them except woodwinds

Never could produce a decent sound out of a clarinet but I can play, to one degree or another, all the stringed instruments (cello, violin, guitar, banjo, bass, and marginally the viola), percussion (piano, timpani, kit, vibraphone, etc), horns (trumpet (badly), tuba, trombone (actually got pretty good at this) and french horn (really badly)). Oh yeah, and I can sing too.

I studied music in college and it was a pre-requisite to take a class to learn to play most of the instruments. We even had to do performances on them so you took it seriously.

[AllegroRondo]

61. Bassoon, Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute

also learned enough piano to pass music theory class

and I'm teaching myself classical guitar.

[ceile]

85. Bassoon-me too!

Don't meet too many (well, any) bassoon players.:hi:

[AllegroRondo]

86. Cool!!!

Nice to meet ya!

What kind of bassoon do you have?
I have an old Kohlert made in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) in the 1920s. I refinished it myself a couple years ago. Its so old it doesnt even have a high D key, and the whisper key was added on later. But the upper register just SINGS.

[terrya]

63. There's a special kind of flute I can play.

:-)

[wideopen]

71. Do you practice often?

It takes a lot practice to becum proficient you know.

[goodboy]

64. I'm a professional Pianist, I also play EVERY percussion instrument

known to man.

Steel Pans, bongos, congas, timbale, roto-toms, trap set, brake drums, marimba, xylophone, etc.

I play enough guitar to get laughed at also.

[chickenscratching]

67. no shit

i had no idea you were a fellow percussionist and piano player!
from one percussionist to another :toast:

[goodboy]

69. here's the piano I have at home right now:

<>

[chickenscratching]

72. nice!

arent electric nice? after playing an upright for awhile i thought I could never work with something that i plugged into the wall.
but recently, since i've moved into an apartment I got an electric grand and i was suprised by how impressed i was.
how long have you been playing for?

[goodboy]

75. I've been playing for 20 years now. What kind of electric grand did you

get?

[chickenscratching]

76. yamaha

[goodboy]

77. no shit. What model is it the CVP 700, 900 or CLP175?

[Misunderestimator]

81. Hi goodboy

I haven't yet visited a showroom around here, but I'm keeping you in mind.

I'm limited to piano as my percussion instrument, but I did play some sort of triple drum thingy in marching band for a few months, when I had work on my teeth and couldn't play my trumpet. I prefer the connection of the body to the instrument... the sticks just set me too far apart from it... same reason I never really liked string instruments that require a bow... love them, just don't love playing them.

[bertha katzenengel]

66. guitar (30 years), banjo, violin, and can pick things out on a keyboard

[DS1]

68. Guitar, poorly. Never had the patience to work through the part

where you go from good play-along dude to good-play on your own dude.

I still play with myself, however.

[ArkDem]

74. Someone once asked me if I wanted to play the piccillo.

I said no.

[micrometer_50]

79. When I was much younger

I played all brass except french horn.
My favorite was the Tuba:




Me, 1967

[goodboy]

80. I chipped my tooth on a jaw harp once...(nt)

[billyskank]

83. Clarinet and piano.

[RandomKoolzip]

84. Guitar, bass, drums, a little keyboards, a little violin (hee hee).

[Mutley]

87. I took Clarinet lessons for a few years in high school

I never did very well, and probably wouldn't be able to play a single note now.

on edit: proofreading is your friend.

[bunkerbuster1]

88. Guitar, sax, piano

in that order, and none too well.

[ghostsofgiants]

89. I play bass

I've been meaning to learn guitar as well, which shouldn't be too hard since I know the basics already, but I'm just too lazy. I'd also kill to know piano and cello.

[Bouncy Ball]

90. I took violin (Suzuki method) for seven years

(from 9 to 16) and I was self-taught on the piano. The parents put it in my room, because they had nowhere else to put it and when I was bored, which was a lot, I'd teach myself how to play. My mother knew how to play and I had watched her my whole life, I knew how to read music and I knew where middle C was, so I went from there.

Nowdays, I can strum a bit on an acoustic guitar.

[entanglement]

92. Well, I can blow my own trumpet when the

occasion calls for it, but otherwise I'm no good :P

[LT TX]

93. Clarinet

For 7 years in school

[Blue_In_AK]

95. I've been playing flute for almost 50 years...

...and I'm damn good, too (and modest).