Do you play a musical instrument.

xelasnave · #1 26-07-2021, 09:23 AM

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 (John) · #2 26-07-2021, 09:29 AM

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

sheeny (Al) · #3 26-07-2021, 09:49 AM

Guitar, bass guitar, banjo mandolin.

Stonius (Markus) · #4 26-07-2021, 09:54 AM

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 (Hans) · #5 26-07-2021, 10:06 AM

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

xelasnave · #6 26-07-2021, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

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

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 · #7 26-07-2021, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by sheeny

Guitar, bass guitar, banjo mandolin.

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

sheeny (Al) · #8 26-07-2021, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

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

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 (Hans) · #9 26-07-2021, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by xelasnave

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

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

https://youtu.be/sIXa1crC73c

xelasnave · #10 26-07-2021, 12:30 PM

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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.

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 · #11 26-07-2021, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

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

https://youtu.be/sIXa1crC73c

Thank you Hans I had no idea.
Alex

JohnF (John) · #12 26-07-2021, 12:42 PM

https://www.facebook.com/coverbandce...2266878590562/

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #13 26-07-2021, 02:47 PM

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

glend (Glen) · #14 26-07-2021, 02:47 PM

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 · #15 26-07-2021, 06:02 PM

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 · #16 26-07-2021, 06:13 PM

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 (Glen) · #17 26-07-2021, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

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 (Ray) · #18 26-07-2021, 07:31 PM

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 (Carlton) · #19 26-07-2021, 07:55 PM

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 (Chris) · #20 26-07-2021, 08:00 PM

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