Do you play an instrument?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

I can knock out a tune on a mandolin, can play surf-style drums, can hammer ham-fistedly at the piano, and I'm supposedly a guitar player. What about you lot?

[HEyHEY]

1. Guitar, Harmonica, Pennywhistle sort of.

I am in the market for a Mandolin...was supposed to by one a long time ago but then the job situation came up.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. There's a couple of places in Calgary you can pick one up. n/t

[HEyHEY]

10. yeah and your Long and MCuade is home to my favourite

small band guitar player...Brent Cooper from Huevos Rancheros

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Ahh. Didn't know. My wife was at school with Chixdiggit.

You don't get more obscure that that.

[HEyHEY]

22. Yeah those two tour together alot too

[bif]

2. I play a mean radio

n/t

[PittPoliSci]

27. hahahaha!

that's hilarious! :-)

[Breezy du Nord]

3. Flute and my brother just bought a mandolin on ebay

Kinda like to learn that.

[BurtWorm]

4. Guitar.

And I noodle around on the keyboard.

[XNASA]

5. As long as you don't have to blow into it........

....I can play it.

[LuLu550]

6. used to play a passible folk rhythm guitar

but not in quite a long time. Mostly I just love to sing the blues (read "most underrated guitarist thread" That's me, wanting to BE Bonnie Raitt)

[Scott Lee]

8. Celtic Harp

The string kind - not the harmonica :)

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Piano, Guitar, Bass

I've been playing piano since 1961. After years of lessons and coaching (jazz) i decided to teach myself guitar when i was 20. (That was 27 years ago.)

I picked up the bass a couple of years ago, since somebody needed to play the darned thing. Since piano players already play bass (their left hand, no?) and i had guitar skills, it was pretty easy.

I'm an accomplished player on all three, but in terms of good, better, best, it would be guitar, bass, piano.
The Professor

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. As a kid I always wanted to be rhythm guitar, now I'm a decent bassist.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. Welcome To The Club

I'm actually much better on keyboards than anything else.

I know how to play some wind instruments, but poorly. I taught myself flute (i'm pretty good at that), sax (rotten) and trumpet (likewise). But, i didn't learn them to be proficient.

I learned the wind instruments (and violin) so that when i used a synthesizer to simulate those sounds, i would phrase like a player of that instrument. That way i wasn't playing piano or organ lines while doing a "sax" solo or a trumpet part. (Or a full brass section.)

I learned how the keys on the sax work so that i could develop the keyboard pattern that would simulate the sound of a sax player just running fingers down or up the keys in succession. It lent an authenticity to the synth sounds that i've always been proud of.

Lately i've been playing lots of guitar and my chops are pretty strong. On bass, i learn the parts on the piano and then just go to rehearsal and start playing what i hear in my head on my 5 string Jazz.

I originally did bass 'cuz someone had to. Now, i kinda like it.
The Professor

[Screaming Lord Byron]

55. Like forming a band at school

There's always 6000 guitar players, countless singers, a couple of drummers, but no-one ever wants to play bass.

[ProfessorGAC]

57. Ever See The Simpson's Episode?

It's the one where Homer gets a b-day gift of going to rock and roll camp.

When Elvis Costello asks what instrument everyone wants to play, they all want guitar. He says there's lots of other good instruments and everyone can't play guitar.

Then, he picks up a bass and says "Who wants to be the bass player?" Dead silence! Then they storm the booth and all take guitars!

Yeah. I definitely know the feeling.

Worst thing that can happen to a bass player? Going to a jam night, being the only bass player, and everyone there wants to play the blues! JUST KILL ME NOW!
The Professor

[Screaming Lord Byron]

59. Yeah! You know why Lou Barlow left Dinosaur Jr?

J Mascis wanted to pay him less because bassists only have four strings and don't play chords!

[theivoryqueen]

11. if by play you mean...

possess with the intent to use, then yes. I am pretty bad at violin and accordian, but that hasn't stopped me yet. I am looking forward to sucking at drums and the harp (upright).

[Blade]

13. I play the skin flute...

does that count? n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Only if you can transpose songs written for the bonaphone...

:evilgrin:

[XanaDUer]

15. Guitar.

eom.

[corarose]

16. Flute, Piccolo & Bass Guitar

:kick:

[RandomKoolzip]

17. Drums, Bass, and Guitar.

My dad was a bassit and always had instruments lying around the house. I learned Drums first, so that we could become a father-son rythym section, then he taught me bass, and I learned guitar in my teens. Right now, in the band I'm in, I'm a bass player.

[Cooley Hurd]

18. Guitar, KB's and harmonica...

...although I'm by no means a virtuoso on any of them. Thank God for multitrack recording and dubbing (to correct all those mistakes I make!)

[VelmaD]

20. Several

I started playing the piano when I was too little to remember. I started formal lessons as soon as I could read. Played seriously all the way through college - originally went to college on a piano scholarship.

I took up clarinet in 6th grade then switched to percussion in high school. PLayed percussion in college band as well. I also know how to play flute and saxophone and know the fingerings for trumpet but can't play it very well - can't do the lip buzz thing. :shrug:

[ZoCrowes]

21. Yes

I am a good guitarist
Decent bassist
Novice keyboard player guy
Horrendous drummer

[Padraig18]

23. Piano and the penny whistle.

:hi:

[DemoTex]

24. Oboe and bass violin.

My chops are shot and my axe is long-gone.

[Sentath]

25. Clarinet

once upon an time.

i could pick it back up if i had a good enough reason. i actually like vocal music better. easier for me.

[MissMillie]

50. me too, as well as

saxaphone, flute, bass and alto clarinet....

I used to be pretty good, once upon a time.

[PittPoliSci]

26. I'm a surf-style guitarist.

I love playing surf guitar, its probably my favorite. I'm also a half-assed bass player and a really shitty drummer. I played piano a while ago, but not good at all at it.

[zx22778a]

28. I spent almost my entire teenage years

trying to play the guitar. I have exactly NO musical talent. I can't tell if I'm in tune or not. Tin ear. I took music all through high school, really enjoyed it, but I'm still after almost forty years of trying, I'm a really lousy guitar player.

Even so, once a year or so, I get out the old Gibson SG and the Traynor amp (45 watts of wildly distorting vacuum tubes) and torture the wife and kids with a really horrible rendition of old Ugly Ducklings tunes.

[ComerPerro]

29. Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Harmonica

Want to learn banjo and drums.

[guitar man]

30. Electric Guitar

Is my main instrument. I also blow a decent blues harp. I can play passable bass and doodle with the Hammond Organ a bit.

[LastKnight]

31. Violin and Guitar

and i could find my way around a mandolin and bass guitar if i absolutley had to, in a life and death situation only though.

started violin in school 8 years ago. picked up guitar last spring, i like the guitar more though, not as stuffy, im the only metalhead in the orchestra too... kinda odd i hang out with all the 'good' kids who listen to classical music and crap like that.

-LK

[jpgray]

32. Guitar, Cello, Piano, Mandolin, Banjo, Baritone, etc. etc.

:D

[LanternWaste]

33. One heavily rockin' Bass Clarinetist here.

One heavily rockin' Bass Clarinetist here.

Just kiddin'. Not that I don't play, but that Bass Clarinet's rock...

[thebigidea]

34. anything that makes a noise. keyboard/guitars/tape recorder/mouth/toys/etc

[AlFrankenFan]

35. A variety of instruments

-Violin
-Tenor saxophone
-Baritone saxophone
-Accostic guitar
-Piano

There's still more instruments I'd really like to try, like the flute and viola and the alto sax.

[SOteric]

36. Flute, piccolo, keyboards, percussion and melodic percussion.

[FDRrocks]

37. Drums of all types

and very amatuerish guitar (and therefore, decent bass :)).

Drumming is my main love though.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

38. Guitar, KB, bass

mostly do chord melodies and jazz now for fun and occasional gigs, but was in a punk band in the 80's with every color of hair to go with it and a blues band in the 90's.

[alwynsw]

39. Sax (mostly alto & soprano), flute and clarinet

Used to make my living with 'em. Even dodged Viet Nam by getting into the Air Force Band. That was a definite plus; although the suckers sent us there TDY for a morale tour.

[JM]

63. Cool...I play the same although

add tenor sax (my main instrument), bari sax, and learning guitar.

Airmen of Note, as I recall?

Later,
JM

[nickgutierrez]

40. Drums

I'm an ok drummer, until it gets to the point where I have to use both of my feet to do something besides marching.

[kayleybeth]

41. I can play

guitar a little. And piano a little. My hubby can play anything with strings. He's self-taught and very, very good.

[David Zephyr]

42. Guitar.

n/t

[Snow]

43. Did you realize when you started this thread that there's

a number of classical musicians here who actually get paid for it? Maybe some non-classical types as well, but I knew about the classical folks. I play around with harmonica, but mostly I sing. Low bass. Very low bass. I'm an oktavist. I sing in symphonic choruses, and usually don't get to use my full range, although I've been asked to join a group singing Rachmaninoff's Vespers next spring, which will push my low range, but not quite all the way. It's a wonderful piece of music, by the way - you should look up a performance if you've never heard it.

[elperromagico]

46. What's the lowest note in your range? n/t

[Snow]

47. For public consumption, a solid A,

but I have a G, and maybe a step or two below that - it's really difficult to match pitches down there. Get a lot of fry tone, too. I think the lowest note in the Vespers is a b-flat, which I can handle with ease most of the time.

[ProfessorGAC]

61. Is That A Below Low C?

Just wondering. I can still hit some pretty high notes for a 47 year old, but i lost my low end before the high.

There's lots of notes on a guitar that are too low for me to hit with my voice. I'm down to about 2.25 octaves, without falsetto. Used to be closer to a solid 3, close to 4 with the falsetto.

But the low notes, i can't do.
The Professor

[Snow]

64. Yup. Off the bass staff - over 2 octaves below middle C

It's fun. You can be felt but not heard. Do strange things to windows. Affect regional seismographs. A really fun piece for low basses is Mahler's 2nd, the Resurrection Symphony. The fun kinda comes to a screeching halt, though, almost at the end, when the same basses who were rumbling low b-flats are expected to sing f-naturals above middle C, at full throat. Oooof!

[elperromagico]

65. My lowest note is E above low C,

and if I include my countertenor range, I can make it up to an E-flat above high C (the freak notes, I call them). But I've never been called upon to do that in a professional setting.

[Snow]

66. Actually, I have used those freak notes professionally -

a symphonic chorus I was in was performing something, I don't remember what, and the tenors were struggling with - not quite power or volume, but, I can't quite find the word - they weren't coming across, anyway. The basses weren't singing at the point, so I turned to the tenor next to me (this was during rehearsal) and said "I'd offer to help, but I'd be using my falsetto". SO he replies, "Waddya think we're doing? Jump right in!" So I did, and that was the way we performed it, too.

[elperromagico]

44. Guitar, bass, drums, piano, trombone, harmonica, ukulele,

et cetera ad infinitum.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

45. Clarinet right here !

I have played the clarinet for 13 years now . I have always played the keyboard and pianos by ear since I was a kid .

[grannylib]

48. piano and flute

[omshanti]

49. I play the Vina

it's a South Indian version of the Sitar

[Monte Carlo]

51. I can play bass guitar... sorta.

I can play pre-determined riffs and whatnot okay, but I'm still learning all of the music behind the frettings. I'm trying to work on my chops and licks.

[slackdude]

52. I play some bass

If you want to hear some samples of my old bands, check out http://www.jasonbuckley.com/aud.html

[Red State Rebel]

53. Violin, Piano and Bassoon

[Mr. McD]

56. Bagpipe

Also guitar.

[Briarius]

58. Tuba here!

but I've also played bass(upright concert and regular) and the bagpipes just a little

[Character Assassin]

60. Anything with strings, keyboard and bagpipes.

[Ellen Forradalom]

62. Little bit of banjo and ukulele

that's all

[UrbScotty]

67. Trumpet and baritone (a.k.a. euphonium) are mine.

I can play a little bit on a piano/keyboard/organ.

[VOX]

68. Blues harp and guitar...

Can play bottleneck pretty well -- prefer to do so on an acoustic as the strings are higher off the fingerboard, and it creates a more country-blues, old-timey sound.

Like to play blues harp amplified, for a Chicago sound. (Used to play professionally.)