which instruments do you play?

[andave_ya]

Just curious, do many of you play musical instruments? I know there are lots of music-lovers here.

[Schokokeks]

Hi Andya, nice idea for the poll.
I play the piano and the flute, but since there's no multiple-choice option, I selected the piano because I like it better. I haven't played my flute in ages, but my piano's still with me :).

[Niamh]

I used to sing in choirs alot years ago. Was also in the choir in college and we sang at the graduations etc.
was in the Dublin Secondary school girls choir who used to perform every year at the national concert hall in dublin.
good idea for a thread!

[TEND]

Wheres the accordion option? I also play harmonica, guitar, bass guitar, saxamuphone, banjo, mandolin, I've also attempted piano, bagpipes, and I have an ongoing battle to learn the spoons. :D
I've also played most of those in front of audiences, sadly enough.

[Stanislaw]

I do the guitar and the violin, and I would have chosen voice...but that would be an insult to all those who claim any relation to that art :D

@ Tend

Accordian and Banjo! Awesome! :thumbs_up

[andave_ya]

:eek2: WOW! All those instruments! Amazing!

Niamh and Schokokeks, thanks.

[JBI]

Drums, and I can play percussion instruments (primarily the timpani). Though, you didn't put those on the list.

[motherhubbard]

Well, you failed to list kazoo or nose so I can’t really participate

[Adolescent09]

I have always wanted to play the piano, especially after hearing the melodious and truly wonderful Stevey Wonder and Paul McCartney duet, Ebony and Ivory.

[Bakiryu]

I've always wanted to learn how to play the violin or the piano. Instead I just have to do with the guitar and the flute. But i love it anyway, specially when i get to play songs with my own lyrics.

[aeroport]

I played guitar for a few years, and was getting decent at it, and then I decided to do piano full-time in the hopes of entering the Conservatory - for which four years were insufficient preparation. I now only play occasionally when there is time.

[Aunty-lion]

I play guitar and sing in an alt-country duo from time to time. I also sing in a choir (we do Queen songs and the B52's).

[Nightshade]

so tone death its embarssing. :D

[andave_ya]

sorry for forgetting drums and timpani and percussion and banjo and accordion (did I miss any?) It's because I usually don't listen to music with those I forgot. Sorry!:blush:

[Pendragon]

Guitar, folk and bass being my specialities; keyboards sometimes very well, sometimes bad!, voice, lead to baritone, drums, mandolin. Can do the be-bop noises that drive people crazy sometimes when I'm in the mood. Favorite is my old guitar! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/GuitarMan.gif

[Pensive]

I sing songs, poems, dialogues, and anything. Well, they say dialogues are not to be sung, but I love making even their tones.

To learn how to play guitar is something I very much desire as well.

[Lote-Tree]

I own a Electronic Keyboard (no not a computer keyboard :-)), a classical guitar and a violin - all birthday presents to me to encourage my musical abilities...it has not helped much...though I love music very much...I play neither of the instruments well... :-(

[Madhuri]

To learn how to play guitar is something I very much desire as well.

Me too :nod:

I especially want to learn the song - Hotel California :D

[Pensive]

Me too :nod:

I especially want to learn the song - Hotel California :D

It's a wonderful song, I think the best song by Eagles that I have heard! I would like to learn its notes as well as of Fade to Black of Metallica. Oh, there are many more. Many of Pink Floyd. Some of Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I don't think I would be able to copy the music well, but sometimes messing up can also be fun. :p

[thevintagepiper]

I play the bagpipes, take classical voice lessons, and attempt to play guitar, just with tabs.

[kathycf]

I used to play the clarinet in junior high, and was also in the school chorus for four years.


I play the bagpipes, take classical voice lessons, and attempt to play guitar, just with tabs.
Hey Vintage, nice to see you! :)

[Debrasue]

I can *fiddle a little*, strum a little ukulele.....and a little sqeezebox action! But those are not on the list..neither is harmonica!

[Aunty-lion]

Guitar, folk and bass being my specialities; keyboards sometimes very well, sometimes bad!, voice, lead to baritone, drums, mandolin. Can do the be-bop noises that drive people crazy sometimes when I'm in the mood. Favorite is my old guitar! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/GuitarMan.gif

Oh! I play lotsa folk music on my guitar too! And mandolin? Wow, I wish I could play the mandolin. A man after my own heart....

[CountingSheep]

I'd love to learn the banjo, but I can't get my hands on one. I can play the guitar, bari and alto sax, clarinet, and, I'm learning the trumpet at the moment.

[Idril]

I'd love to learn the banjo, but I can't get my hands on one.

My dad plays the banjo, among other things. When he was working as a Chaplin at a nursing home, there wasn't always an organist available so he would use his banjo. You haven't lived if you haven't heard the Lutheran Book Of Worship liturgy and hymns accompanied by a banjo. :lol: If my siblings and I were ever there on those days we would spend most of the service giggling, we were full grown adults at that point, with families of our own but there's just something so ridiculous yet awesome about singing the Doxology with a banjo. :rolleyes: :p

I come from a very musical family, we all played instruments and we all sing. I played piano and flute in high school but I've lost the ability to play either now...now I just sing.

[CountingSheep]

Is it possible to play sad music on a banjo?

[Idril]

No not really, which is one of the reasons why some of the more solemn hymns and songs of praise made us giggle so much.

[CountingSheep]

Hahaha I bet. Thats why I'd like to learn it. I think it's virtually impossible.

[Sancho]

A Funeral Dirge on a banjo would border on the absurd, but a good banjo player can nail the blues.

You know, a 5-string banjo is real easy to play. It's generally tuned in open G and fretting with the left hand involves only 4 strings - most of the time.

Give it a try! It's fun! I bought my 1st banjo at a pawn shop in South Carolina for 25 bucks, and I've probably had more fun with that instrument than any other I've owned.

[Idril]

The Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets has some really interesting banjo work on it. The song Don't Drink the Water has a very sinister sounding banjo in it and Spoon has an almost mournful banjo solo, the first time I heard it I thought it was a mandolin but it's a banjo being played by someone who is very, very good.

[CountingSheep]

The Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets has some really interesting banjo work on it. The song Don't Drink the Water has a very sinister sounding banjo in it and Spoon has an almost mournful banjo solo, the first time I heard it I thought it was a mandolin but it's a banjo being played by someone who is very, very good.

I love Don't Drink The Water! I didn't even think of that song.

[kiz_paws]

What a great thread!

I play piano, mostly Chopin, as he is my total passion. I am also adept with Ragtime music, there is just something about a Joplin tune, woot!

I also can play guitar (so-so), a decent harmonica, and I can carry a tune. I was a substitute organist one summer at our church, and that was quite an adventure, as one keyboard is not the same as another.... (quite contraire to what was assured to me...). Those bass pedals were impossible for me to thump around with, what with four levels of keyboards in front of me.... sheesh! :crash:

[ennison]

Am piob mor.

[Redzeppelin]

The Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets has some really interesting banjo work on it. The song Don't Drink the Water has a very sinister sounding banjo in it and Spoon has an almost mournful banjo solo, the first time I heard it I thought it was a mandolin but it's a banjo being played by someone who is very, very good.

That's Bela Fleck (spelling?) playing those awesome licks in "Water" (he tucks in a few scale lines from either a Gypsy or Harmonic minor scale that gives it that kind of menacing feel).

I've played the guitar (electric and acoustic) for 20+ years - generally rock 'n roll. If music paid as consistently as teaching I'd do it instead (but the people you have to hang out with in the world of rock are generally more scary than high school students, so teaching it will have to be...)

[kiz_paws]

If music paid as consistently as teaching I'd do it instead (but the people you have to hang out with in the world of rock are generally more scary than high school students, so teaching it will have to be...)
Ha-ha, I hear ya, Red! :)

[applepie]

Nothing at the moment, but I used to play trumpet and I was pretty good. I hope one day to find the time to pick it up again.