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#1

Musical instruments

How many musical instruments do you play at the moment?

Here are some of the instruments *I* play...

1. Bass
2. Drums
3. Guitar
4. Harmonica
5. Organ
6. Piano
7. Synthesizer

I had a lot of free time as a child.
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#2

re: Musical instruments

I play clarinet. Would you believe I have been playing for 42 years! A Benny Goodman I'm not.
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#3

re: Musical instruments

Yay for clarinetists! You, me, Jaily, we're everywhere!

Clarinet,
Recorder,
Harmonica (used to, not very well any more)

Starting Saxophone and re-starting Piano in the comiong year.
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our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
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#4

re: Musical instruments

Just piano for me.

Totally self-taught so not amazing by any means, but I enjoy myself.
#5

re: Musical instruments

Kazoo (me and the rest of world)
French Horn
and I can bang out a tune or two on the piano
and violin.

Actually i can figure out almost any instrument and play a simple tune on it in a few minutes, but those are the only ones that I can say I really play.

Updated On: 5/7/07 at 06:15 PM

#6

re: Musical instruments

At the moment? None, as I am on here (hahaaa.... I crack myself up).

-I am first and foremost a vocalist. That is what my degree is in.
-I am also a decent pianist (been playing since I was 7). I would have majored in piano....but I'm lazy.
-I had to learn guitar in college. I am passable.
-I have played the clarinet for 15 years.
-I am proficient on flute and saxophone.
-And can make music-like sounds on the violin and trumpet and can fake my way through a percussion score (I had to take technique classes in all the instrument families in college).

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#7

re: Musical instruments

Yay! Colleen adds to our ever-strong clarinet club. Never realized there were so many of us out there.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.


Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller
#8

re: Musical instruments

What I play at the moment:
- Piano (this is my best instrument)
- Guitar

What I can play excluding the above:
- violin
-flute
-piccolo
- many other string instruments similar to the violin

Really, put me in front of anything and I can pick something up.
#9

re: Musical instruments

I can play piano, and have been playing forever

but, I am trying to learn guitar right now, and I played clarinet during middle school (but would be absolutely pitiful if i tryed now)
#10

re: Musical instruments

Voice and piano.
But I played trombone for two years in elementary school, good times.
I've always wanted to learn the violin but didn't because I only have so many hours in a day.
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#11

re: Musical instruments

bass and guitar

for bass i have a squier bronco bass (short-scale electric) and an SB-31 (31 inch scale accoustic/electric)
for 6-string guitar i have a squier mini strat (electric) a baby alvarez (accoustic) and a very old guitar that my dad used to play when he was little.
for 12-string guitar i have an ovation (accoustic/electric)

it's too bad no one takes female musicians seriously around here though.
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#12

re: Musical instruments

Add one more to the growing list of the clarinet club! :)

-clarinet (9 years; quitting this fall, though, as I'm going to college and have no desire to continue the instrument)
-piano (10 years)
-harpsichord (6 years)
-fife (self-taught; 1 year)
#13

re: Musical instruments

No clarinet here, but...
didgeridoo
trumpet
guitar
piano
and I've been messing with bass (an ashbory) and violin
#14

re: Musical instruments

Double major, clarinet & English horn/oboe, the Juilliard School, class of '00...also studied flute, bassoon/contrabassoon, violin/viola, and 'cello. I also play the saxophone, and can passably negotiate a piano.
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#15

re: Musical instruments

-Clarinet's my primary instrument.
-Sax, mainly bari
-Oboe
#16

re: Musical instruments

flute and piccolo... and i can manage a piano decently... haven't played it in years, but i can still manage.
#17

re: Musical instruments

- flute (and piccolo)
- clarinet (also bass clarinet)
- alto and tenor sax
- piano (ehh, I'm not great. I taught myself and only took a few months of lessons a while ago)
- I can play a very tiny bit of trumpet
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#18

re: Musical instruments

- Voice
- Piano
- Guitar
- Cello
- Violin
#19

re: Musical instruments

in roughly descending order of proficiency:

voice
bass guitar
drumset/percussion
melodica
washboard
slide whistle
bowed psaltery
upright bass
piano
five-string guitar

In junior high school, I played cello and oboe, but have touched neither of them since. I suspect I could pick them up again if I had to.

I have never played clarinet.
#20

re: Musical instruments

I'm a voice major at school, so along with voice, we are forced to learn the piano. I am not that good, but I like playing. I also played the viola for about 9 year. Also I've taken class brass, so can play a little trombone. But I'd say I'm most proficient at voice, piano and viola.
#21

re: Musical instruments

piano
glockenspiel
trombone
my voice
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#22

re: Musical instruments

Trumpet, primarily. I haven't played in a long time, but it was the love of my life for many years, and I miss it a lot. I can play the rest of the cornet family (flugelhorn, etc.) and a little, little bit of French horn and Euphonium.
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#23

re: Musical instruments

Viola...since 5th grade.
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#24

re: Musical instruments

My primary instrument is alto sax
Picked up soprano sax last fall along with bassoon (love them both)
Piano

Hoping to learn baritone, french horn, cello, oboe, and percussion someday.
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#25

re: Musical instruments

I play 17 musical instruments, some kids played outside...I played with large stringed instruments.

My main focus, in addition to voice, was (a shock!) the clarinet.

I am also proficient (an understatement) in:

flute
sax
bassoon
oboe
trumpet
trombone
cello
violin
mandolin
harp (my ex fiancee taught me)
piano
piccolo
tuba
french horn
coronet
harmonica
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