Do You Play Instrument(s)?

The title says it all :3


Ya'll play any instruments? If so, is it more then one? What Instrument family? :)

i played saxophone from 6th grade (~10 years old) up until my junior year of college, so about 12 years playing? i was pretty damn good, too. jazz was my passion; big bands and combos. in high school our jazz band won quite a few competitions for a few years in a row (yes it's a thing). in college, even when i changed my major from music to art, i was still asked to play in my uni's jazz band.

being a music major - especially playing jazz - means you dabble in other instruments: piano, guitar, flute and clarinet; i was never that great at these tho lol.

I played clarinet.

I can play the recorder (flute) but I'm not that good. It was taught to me when I was like five years old.
I can also play the violin. It has been around 15 years since I started playing the violin and I think I'm decent at it. But I never play concerts and I panic every time someone other than my teacher listens to me. That's why I never want to play the first violin! I prefer to play for myself. That's when it sounds like the violin is actually singing and/or crying (just like it should). At the moment I'm playing Tschaikovsky's "Souvenir d'un lieu cher".

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I play the piano and violin. I am classically trained for piano, but unfortunately not for violin, though I know classical pieces. Everyone in this province is obsessed with fiddle instead of violin. It's the same instrument, just different styles and techniques. Fiddle is easier than classical violin, etc. It's like they think that unless you live in the city or are part of the orchestra, no one can play classical violin. It's somewhat funny, although my teacher discontinued lessons because of it (she felt she was inadequate to teach me classical, as she is solid fiddle).
I've known the piano for seven (or eight?) years, the violin for five and a half.
The piano is in the percussion family, the violin the orchestral stringed family.
If I chose another instrument, I think it would be the double base (which is in the same family as the violin, but it's much larger, shaped differently, and much deeper) though they are so bloody expensive. I love deep instruments (can't you tell? I've chosen the violin for it lol).
If you want to be technical, I can play the ukulele, guitar (somewhat), the organ (I can figure it out; the pumping is a bit to get used to), and the recorder. The ukulele is essentially a violin you hold like a guitar and pick rather than play with a bow (though we pick sometimes, too), so it's not particularly different. We learned the ukelele and recorder in elementary school, but that was a few years ago now.
Once you know an instrument, you can pretty much figure out similar instruments.

I only whistle but rather amazingly :)


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I'm teaching myself the piano.

I wish I would have had more interest as a kid, its so much harder to start from scratch as an adult. I could play the recorder really well as a child, but that's long ago ;)

I love to listen to Piano music, though, esp. sad pieces ;) Finally decided to buy a nice Roland digital piano and a couple really good books and DVD's.

I'm NOT cheating with those stick on letters, either, LOL.

It is difficult, sigh. And the strength in my little fingers is pathetic, LOL. But I'm muddling along. Don't get me wrong, still a TOTAL beginner, still !!

I played Drums. Haven't had a set in years.. Had a cool band for about 5 years and played all Cover tunes, Tesla, Motley Crew, Guns n Roses, Pantara and Megadeth.


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Accordions are a woodwind instrument right? I also played trombone for a while.

I played clarinet for about 3 years in middle school, but lost interest after spending a year with a real dunderhead of a band teacher. Since then I've played guitar on-and-off for about... 7-ish years? I haven't pulled my guitars out since I moved, and I really need to.

I learned to play piano when I was about five sitting on my Grama's lap (she'd work the sustain pedal). That's when I learned to love the black keys (much more friendly to tiny hands!) She taught me to play from the heart and to listen to when the music demanded that silence be heard. To this day, I still use moments of silence as a means of emphasis when I play. I learned guitar when I was about twelve and the bass guitar when I was about sixteen, then the flute when I was in my thirties. I pretty much play everything by ear though I took a number of music theory classes in college. lol

I've played in many bands over the years as either a singing bass player or a singing guitarist/keys player. I'm presently in two bands working as a singing bass player -- three if you count the worship group I play contemporary Christian music in on Sundays. :-)

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Started playing guitar when i was around 10.

Guitar, for 17 years. :gj:

...and Ive worked as a fill-in guitar tech for a few pretty well known bands in the past.

I took 10 years of classical piano before becoming a guitarist. I play with a few bands on and off on the side. I mainly play guitar these days but i'm competent on the bass, drums, ukelele, madolin, and banjo!

This one time, at band camp...

No, unfortunately I don't have a musical bone in my body. I was always an athlete growing up and by the time I was 10 I was playing hockey exclusively. I was skating or playing dek-hockey every day, often more than once a day. The only days I took off were Thanksgiving day and Christmas day.

In my next life I would much rather have a musical skill set. I no longer play hockey and I live every day in pain from years of beating my body up. Music I could play forever.... Plus, chicks dig a guy with a guitar. :gj: