Do you play a musical instrument.

[xelasnave]

It can be in the past or right now.
Piano lessons when a kid or played guitar with mates in the garage.
I will start.
At 11 in a brass band playing a b flat baritone and could site read..had to as you would line up Saturday morning or special days like Anzac day and be handed little cardboard pieces with your music part..no rehearsal just play it.
Later the guitar and self taught which is why I am not that flash as it can take ages to work out the simplest of things..like the importance of scales.
Over the last five six or seven years taken to playing a fretless cigar box three string guitar..open tuned say E B
and E so its a power cord.. lots of fun and not at all easy to play notes to make a melody but I like the thing..

Never heard of cigar box guitars..there is a world of them out there...here is some old guy doing a unrehearsed test run to figure out how to up load a video to youtube.;)
https://youtu.be/ROOy5l2iiLA

Edit found the other one..
https://youtu.be/D4DejuN706Y

[JohnF]

The only musical instrument I can play is a CD player.
:rofl:

[sheeny]

Guitar, bass guitar, banjo mandolin.

[Stonius]

Self-taught on Guitar since age 12 or so. I'm still learning. Then I got a Synth at age 16 or so and got into composing. At film school I composed a musical for one of my classmates - he went on to direct 'Legally Blonde' for Miramax. Later I joined a parents band as a drummer at my kid's school at age, I dunno, 38?


I wouldn't say I'm a virtuoso on any of them, but I like noodling with sounds in the same way that some people like messing around with paint. It's just fun and there seem to be endless combinations.


Markus

[Hans Tucker]

Couldn't get past Grade 5 Recorder .. and Three Blind Mice.

[xelasnave]

Those things would put anyone off Hans. But we can help.. it's not to late to say go for a cigar box guitar you learn the basics in one easy lesson...but get a big amp so the neighbours will be jealous of your progress.
Alex

[xelasnave]

Banjo eh..I bow down before you they impress me no end..have you seen Steve Martin play? He surprised me.
Alex

[sheeny]

No, not banjo. The banjo mandolin has a banjo body but is tuned and played as a mondolin. i.e it has 4 pairs of strings.


Banjo playing is completely different! ...and as a guitar player, I don't know how they do it.


Al.

[Hans Tucker]

Billy Connolly was rather a master of the Banjo .. or though his modesty played this down.

https://youtu.be/sIXa1crC73c

[xelasnave]

I have owned two in that case and no chance of playing them..my Mother picked them up on one of her treasure hunts ... I dont know what became of them..maybe another thing lost in the fire.
Alex

[xelasnave]

Thank you Hans I had no idea.
Alex

[JohnF]

https://www.facebook.com/coverbandcentral/photos/a.321423671341565/1882266878590562/
:rofl:

[FlashDrive]

I play the ' Spoons ' when I'm at the table ....:lol:

[glend]

Started on Trombone, in primary school band but my arms were too short to reach the seventh slide position, they switched me to drums. Piano from 12yo (my mother was an excellent piano player and sight reader, so it was a given), guitar in high school. Been messing around with all of them since, but more seriously since I retired. My home studio has a drum kit, Casio Keyboard, various guitars (too many but they are all important to me), I also have a Midi keyboard attached to my DAW. A couple of good guitar amps, all the usual other gear.

Here is a question for the group: What do you wish you could play really well?
For me it's the Cello, love the tone. A fretless stringed instrument can be very difficult to play well. One day maybe.

https://youtu.be/1prweT95Mo0

[astro744]

Think banjo, think Deliverance but check out this Bach on Banjo..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rLyM4gCrn1k

I love musical instruments but am missing one thing to be able to play them; skill!

I have piano, violin, 3/4 guitar classic guitar from school days, wooden recorder from school days and Native American Flute (F# minor).

Would live to own oboe, cello, banjo, mandolin, tenor ukulele, better guitar, 12 string guitar, double bass and button accordion like Flaco Jimenez plays and Hammond B3/C3 organ with Leslie speaker. All way more expensive than my telescopes and I none would sound good in my hands but I’d have fun with them........... oh and a harp! (Not the big orchestra type), very therapeutic.

[raymo]

My son in law was pressured by his parents to learn the violin, and eventually became first violin in the W.A. youth orchestra. One day he put it down, and
never picked it up again, except to put it in the cupboard.
He now has about seven or eight high quality guitars which he messes around on, but has nowhere near the proficiency he had on the violin,
a bit sad.
raymo

[glend]

Well Raymo, at least he has a music theory background to help him with whatever he chooses. There are many different approaches people can take with guitars, from classical to metal etc. A Violin and Guitar have some similiarities: string instruments, a reliance on neck positioning, scale patterns, etc. I am pretty sure he is not just messing around.
My son was in his high school jazz band, first Alto Sax, and he too put it down when he went off to Uni. Now he is middle aged, with kids of his own, and he has picked it up again. Give your son-in-law some time.

[Sunfish]

I play several guitars ,an inside view of one is my avatar. I also inherited a piano which I pretend to play but really I am just banging away at chords.

[Outcast]

Two bass guitars & a bass ukelele that I can play okay(ish)... LOL

A Djembe (African Drum) which both my wife & my dog hate...

& I'm trying to teach myself piano (using a beginner's book)...

But.. I LOVE listening to music... & attempting to play along with the bass line or drums... sometimes in an okay fashion, sometimes not so much...

[OneCosmos]

I have played piano pretty much all my life. Here’s a link to a concert in Brisbane a few years ago. Needless to say I’m the pianist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HcsJcgVYUmE

Chris

[raymo]

It is getting a bit late Glen, he is pushing 60.
raymo

[PaulSthcoast]

Violin in my youth...
I enjoyed it very much....I still have a few.

Drums and percussion are my instruments of choice.

Does singing count ?

Faa la la la .....laaaaaaaaaaa........!!!!!


Paul.

[SB]

Hi Chris,
Impressive! It’s a complex piece.

Having always played guitar I decided it was about time to learn to read music and bought a keyboard and had some piano lessons five years ago. Having focussed on contemporary and hard rock I then discovered music I hadn’t really listened to before. Now addicted to piano I am working my way through Chopin Ballade No4. Hardly play my guitar now!

Chris SB

[Sunfish]

Singing counts!

[OneCosmos]

The Chopin F minor ballade is also complex. I have performed it a few times and may have a recording somewhere.

[AstralTraveller]

I think playing is a strong word for what I do to musical instruments. I like music but my talents, such as they are, are in different areas. I practice and I do improve but only very slowly. I've heard that it takes 10,000 hrs practice to become a virtuoso. I don't imagine that I'll ever get to 10,000 but even if I did the results would be unimpressive.

I started on bass guitar and may one day learn to strum chords on my guitar but my main instrument these days is the octave mandolin - me being too clumsy to manage a real mandolin.



Yes I know the instruments and I want one. The octave mando is too quiet at the folk sessions (should they ever recommence). I recall sitting next to a 12-string guitarist who said he couldn't hear me (neither could I) and that I needed more strings and a bigger sound box. I figure a drum skin and resonator ring would achieve the same effect. :evil: Is yours strung with metal or nylon strings? I seen both advertised but haven't heard either.

BTW I once heard a mandolin that soared over a room of 20+ instruments, including another 5-6 mandos. It was an early 1930's vintage Gibson when they were all hand made and tap tuned. Wonderful doesn't do it justice. I've heard $4-5000 hand made instruments that would struggle to stay with that Gibson. The fact that the owner could -really- play also helped.

[raymo]

I played the cornet in the Air Cadets silver band, but all that blowing was
too much hard work, so I switched to the harmonica which is half sucking:)
raymo

[sheeny]

Steel strings. An individual note sounds like a banjo, of course, but unless you're just strumming, a banjo and a mandolin are played quite differently.


Al.

[Hans Tucker]

For some odd reason I had a flash back to Trade Training days at WAGGA when the Sproggs had a band (Appie Band) .. band yeah right ... everyone played drums. Lets say they were far from being anything like the Top Secret Drum Corps from Basel, Switzerland.

https://youtu.be/YnCsyijUsQM

[raymo]

Chalk and cheese then; we had 130 players, and were the largest silver band
in the country, and were very good. We never all played at the same time,
about 90-100 was a usual assemblage, but no harmonicas.
raymo

[DavidU]

This is me on guitar many years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwusoKAeeI

[Sunfish]

My uncle took up jazz guitar when he retired at 60. He became quite good and read guitar music which is a challenge. Then he took up the harmonica and ended up playing chromatic harmonicas in his 70s. I think he was good at that also until he ran out of puff in his 90s.

[Sunfish]

Killer guitar.
Soulful stuff.

[Ausrock]

Been playing guitar since '62 but health issues (major circulation probs) have intervened over the last year or so. :( Playing my acoustics is too uncomfortable but I'm starting to faff around on a well set up electric.

Chris :cool2:

[raymo]

I so badly wanted to take up the violin when I was a child, but sadly it
hadn't been invented yet.:lol::lol:
raymo

[DavidU]

here is another one of me playing, this is a hendrix song.
at 4.22 I play the solo with my teeth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USqEUEbBeVk

[PeterM]

I've seen some of your vids before David and have great respect for your guitar talents. These 2 vids you have put up cement that even more. Bravo.

[PeterM]

I'm a "once was sort of guitarist" in a reasonably popular Sydney "Power Pop" band early 80s...I think this meant solos were out and chunky chords were in! From 79-82 I played 480 pub and club gigs all over Sydney, often as support for many of Oz's best at the time. Astro for me, came before a passion for guitar but then Astro returned with a vengeance and Supernova hunting became all consuming. I still have a Gibson Les Paul... in its case!

Have a laugh... the first was a song I wrote and we recorded at Phoenix Records... I think we sold most 1500 copies made. The second was an attempt at a Zoot cover of Eleanor Rigby. These are from Blacktown RSL 1981, we used to get 1500 punters at most club gigs and 50-300 at most pubs. Oh and this was recorded on a camera that was the size of 12inch LX200 ota!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXUTSySYEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nxGqZ0rZGI

[blindman]

Very good. I love Brahms.
Used to play classic guitar in orchestar overseas. Was going to music school at the same time attending high school.

[DavidU]

:thumbsup:

[Constant]

You're way too modest.... I loved your work then, as I do now. Your cover of ER per Zoot is and remains excellent. Well done.

[OneCosmos]

I used to tell people all I ever wanted to be was a concert pianist. I turned out to be a good enough pianist to work in IT:lol:

[xelasnave]

One of the wonderful things about this place is that everywhere you look you gaze at a brilliant person.
Alex