Do you play a musical instrument.

[raymo]

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

[PaulSthcoast (Paul)]

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 (Chris)]

Originally Posted by 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

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 (Ray)]

Singing counts!

Originally Posted by 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.

[OneCosmos (Chris)]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[AstralTraveller (David)]

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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. 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 (Al)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Is yours strung with metal or nylon strings?

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 (Hans)]

Originally Posted by 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

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 (Dave)]

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

[Sunfish (Ray)]

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.

Originally Posted by 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

[Sunfish (Ray)]

Killer guitar.
Soulful stuff.

Originally Posted by DavidU

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

[Ausrock (Chris)]

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

[raymo]

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

[DavidU (Dave)]

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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 (Dave)]

Originally Posted by 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