Instruments

[Micky]

(Sorry to whoever started the last instruments thread, thought this place needed one)

So, what do you play?

Me:

Double Bass (1862, Farbe)
I try and play piano and guitar, but to not much success, I mostly use them for composing.

[itchy]

hey micky, you're so fine you're so fine you..... *shudders* i hate that song... so much!

anyway,

i play the alto saxomaphone, the pinano, i attempt to play bass guitar, i can kinda play the drums, and uh... well... that's about it... i think. yes. that is all.

:badger: :rawk: :nana: :nana: hurrah! look at the dancing aminals and such!

*shudders* kill the badgers!!! KILL THEM ALL!:twisted: :twisted:

redrum......

[KualaLumpur1997]

I am a mediocre classical/jazz guitarist (but I can play rock if need be), and I am self-taught on the piano. This doesn't mean I can play it - I don't know correct fingering or anything.

Do the following count as instruments? If so, I can sort of play them: kazoo, harmonica, vibraslap.

[Insig]

I've been playing bass guitar for about a year now. I can play rather well, but nothing too fancy. Just some of the White Stripes, Pink Floyd, Cream, and Led Zepplin. :weebl:

[KualaLumpur1997]

Pink Floyd are doubtlessly the greatest band ever. btw Insig, what's your favourite floyd album?

[InFusion]

I'm a drummer! Been playing for 3 years now..
I own an electric Roland kit, which is awesome!

fav drummers:
Mike Portnoy
Danny Carey
Martin Lopez
Jason Rullo
Vinnie Colaiuta
Dennis Chambers
and lots of others..

[Dirt_Monkey]

im a drummer me. been playing for about 6months though! gonna start lessons this year :)

oh yeah i can also do some stuff on the keyboard

[Smeagle]

I've been playing the French Horn for about 6 years :D

I used to play the piano as well but I gave up because I couldn't be arsed to play TWO instruments...

Far too much effort.

[Ferret Pie]

I play a cello and i lost my guitar book Waa
:mmmpie: :rawk:

[Beef Magic]

I strum a Guitar. I am ok at it. Rabid says i can play. I say i make a bad noise :)


I want a Banjo.

[Digga]

I play the guitar, i'm getting pretty good now if i say so myself, i can nearly play stuff.

Anyway, here's one for the drummers....what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians? A DRUMMER!

here's another less drum related joke but still drum related if you get what i mean...what has 7 arms and sucks? DEF LEPPARD!

[InFusion]

Originally posted by Digga
I play the guitar, i'm getting pretty good now if i say so myself, i can nearly play stuff.

Anyway, here's one for the drummers....what do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians? A DRUMMER!

here's another less drum related joke but still drum related if you get what i mean...what has 7 arms and sucks? DEF LEPPARD!

Like we've never heard those before.:rolleyes: ;)

[PieKaos]

Trumpet and cornet. Trumpets kick brass! We're proud of how we blow! Heh.

[itchy]

for all you people who want to laugh at me,

I HAVE AN ALTO SAXOPHONE TEST TOMORROW, PLUS A MATH TEST! GAH!!!!!!

AND I'M PROBABLY GOING TO DO NOT SO GOOD-LY ON EITHER OF THEM!! GAH!!!!

anyone know how to study for math in a jiffy, and remember it for a test???

[lemur]

guitar, metallica, cliche, meh

[dizzy]

i'm a girl, i've been playing guitar for 5 years and i am damn good. HA. girls CAN play guitar! big up tha 2 X chromosomes. aww, i should've been a lesbian, really.


i play the piano too, but not very well anymore, which is a shame. used to play the violin aaaaaages ago, but all that nonsense stopped after primary school.;)

[Spoo]

I play:

Electric Guitar
(Epiphone Les Paul Std with Gibson 57 Classic p/ups)

Accoustic Guitar
(Simon & Patrick SP6 Spruce)

Bass Guitar
(OLP Musicman)

Keyboard/Piano
(Yamaha PSR540)

Can also play a bit of Mandolin, Bazooki, Dulcimer.

[YoYo Ninja Girl]

Originally posted by dizzy
i'm a girl, i've been playing guitar for 5 years and i am damn good.

Me too :D I've been playing bass that long but I'm self-taught and have only gotten into it fairly recently so probably not as good as you :( I thief my brother's electric guitar and am ok at that, I want my own but have no money. I also learnt piano and flute for ages but it wasn't so fun :)

[Stevotheclown]

I play a crafter bass guitar and a yahama C40 acoustic. Getting a new acoustic soon.

[dizzy]

Originally posted by YoYo Ninja Girl
Me too :D I've been playing bass that long but I'm self-taught and have only gotten into it fairly recently so probably not as good as you :( I thief my brother's electric guitar and am ok at that, I want my own but have no money. I also learnt piano and flute for ages but it wasn't so fun :)

crikey i can't play bass for tits! haha, it's only the six stringers for me i'm afraid.

It's a shame we don't all live in one big weeblnbob house. We'd make one hell of a band.

[wyrd_fish]

Originally posted by dizzy
i should've been a lesbian, really.

never too late to change

PS i can play twinkle twinkle little star and smoke on the water on a bass

[dizzy]

Originally posted by wyrd_fish
never too late to change

but i don't fancy girls. that's the catch you see.

[Micky]

Originally posted by dizzy
crikey i can't play bass for tits! haha, it's only the six stringers for me i'm afraid.

This is what confuses me about a six string/bass guitar crossover (as opposed to double bass, which is a whole different kettle of fish), a bass guitar is just the bottom four strings of a six stringer down an octave or two - surely if you can play guitar you can play bass guitar too? [/wouldn't know, being a trained classical bassist initially]

[Beef Magic]

I think that because Guitar is a more frontal sound than the bass, it's takes a bit of getting used to.

The Bass really has to play in time with the drums and has to keep rythem, while the guitarist can go fret wanking.

[Spoo]

Originally posted by Micky
This is what confuses me about a six string/bass guitar crossover (as opposed to double bass, which is a whole different kettle of fish), a bass guitar is just the bottom four strings of a six stringer down an octave or two - surely if you can play guitar you can play bass guitar too? [/wouldn't know, being a trained classical bassist initially]


Physically and technique wise guitarists can manage on bass. Its the role that the instrument takes within the band thats the problem. Its probably like the difference between your Double Bass and say a flute. The two instruemnts perform completley different roles. Because an electric bass just looks like a big guitar with four stings (1 octave bellow btw) a lot of guitarists asume they can 'play' it. Often a guitarist doesnt grasp the subtlties of the bass.

[Stevotheclown]

Playing guitar before bass gives you a slight advantage because your used to moving your hand freely around on the neck and using the different fingers to play!

[dizzy]

it's difficult for me to play the bass simply because it's too damn big. Nothing to do with what strings they are / keeping in time and all that nonsense.

Guitars have smaller frets and thinner strings, thus it is easier for a little-handed person like me to play it.:p

[freddiestarfish]

i play trumpet
i can play a bit on the french horn and piano as well.

i have a bach stradavarius Bb trumpet
a silly yamaha cornet for brass bands
and a henri selmer french original A/Bb piccolo 4 valve trumpet


--
bloody expensive too

[Scribbly]

I just bought a guitar! It is sooo fckn cool.. it cost me 300 euro's... it rocks! :rawk: :cool:

[MrPete]

Classically trained pianist (8-octave Kemble upright, in white :D), though moved into keyboards ages ago (5 octave Midi/Creative Live soundcard combo)
Can also play basic guitar, bass and drums. AND also a trombonist (Bb Con Director). Once played with an Americana punk band, which was fun \o/

Playing about with rhythms at the mo on a djembe, so hoping to increase my drumming abilities shortly.

Oh yeah, I can sing a little too, though I dont often advertise that fact.

[Beir_Gee]

I've played cornet for about 8 years, I play
the piano/organ now and then and I pretty
much suck. I also play the harmonica and
acoustic guitar, and tomorrow I will hopefully
buy a bass guitar:)

[Rhaeniel]

Played recorder when I was very little, was also in the school choir and having keyboard lessons (only had a few of them though).
Gave up the recorder and took up flute instead, still singing in school choir and fiddling with keyboard and piano stuff a bit. Reached grade 2 with flute.
Sold my flute to buy a drum kit :D had singing lessons, plus still singing in school choir. Had a few months of drum lessons but left cos the teacher was a perv =/ Plus I only had free lessons while I was doing GCSE music - I finished GCSE's a few months after I started drumming lessons. I also fiddled around a bit with guitar, but my knowledge of them is VERY basic. Although I can read most types of music tablature (sp?)
Don't think I missed anything...
Oh! I once tried to play a Saxophone >.< those things take so much breath just to get one clear note!

[Zin]

I used to play the drums, and i weren't too bad at it. Played them for about a year and a half and was getting pretty niffty with them, but i seemed to get bored off them. I now have a bad habbit of druming on stuff when i'm bored.

[Cheeky Prophet]

I've played clarinet for um.. a little over 5 years now.. I'm first chair in school, and my director says I'm the concert master, hehe.

I actually wanted to give it up this year to do video editing and stuff, but my director refused to let me quit..

Oh yeah and when I was in 7th grade (second year playing) my band was 6th best in the state of Texas.. (<- my favoritest accomplishment)

Oh yeah, I play a bit of oboe too.. not very well though

[kuala_lumpur]

I have fingers on many instruments.

I play drums. I have a Pacific Kit in my basement.
Sitting next to that kit are my B.C. Rich Bronze Series electric guitar and my acoustic classical guitar.
I also have a piano in my living room.
I don't own one, but I play a pretty mean bass as well.

:rawk:

I sing pretty damn well too, if I do say so myself. And I do. :weebl_lo:

-Me-

[virgin_charity]

i play guitar, piano, clarinet... the last two are a little embarrasing so feel free to mock me.:nana:

[KualaLumpur1997]

Embarassing? There's nothing wrong with either. I play piano, and in January I'm starting the Oboe (a distant cousin of the Clarinet)

[kuala_lumpur]

So I'm a dork.

[Sickness]

I play drums... been playing for nearly a year now... I love-eds my drums *hugs drums* :D I used to sing for a band too... and then I sort of lost interest... maybe I'll start again soon...

[Rhaeven]

My main instrument is bass guitar, but I can play the guitar too. And the piano and drums a little.

Here's another joke: How do you park in those disabled spaces without getting fined? Put some drumsticks in your car window! LOLOLOLOLLLll!!!!11

[Old Chap]

trumpet ere!

[Shpox]

I played heap of crap. Recently ditched everything this year... all my instruments. Now im focusing on trumpet, keyboard ? and sax. bah... i dont know .. :o

[Hugh]

I play the bassoon. Sabrina the teenage witch says it's a sexy instrument. True.

[KualaLumpur1997]

I found a bassoon the other day. Literally. I was hunting around the musical instrument store cupboard in school, and found a large case which looked like it hadn't been touched for some decades. I opened it up, assembled the bassoon therein, (which had a functioning reed, to my surprise), and blew a rather clear F. Then one of my friends who, along with me, has a less-than-healthy interest in double-reeded wind instruments, yelled, " A bassoon!!!!!!". The next day he booked lessons on it, and bought himself a nice new reed for about £12. Then he ordered me to learn the Cor-Anglais, which is what I intend to do.

PS It is my lifelong dream to get grade 1 on every existing orchestral instrument. So far I have... zero. (I have grade 4 on classical Spanish guitar and grade 5 theory, but such things do not matter).

PPS Hugh, I meet very few competent bassoonists anywhere, the aforementioned friend who is currently taking lessons is crap at it - for some reason I feel the need to ask this question, but can you play a decending blues scale from the top C quickly on your instrument?

[leper]

I play the triangle u wouldn't think it but it b a hard instrument to master :weebl:

[jimeh]

Ive played the violin for aroun 8 years...

[fishingfrog]

I play this
http://www.selmer.com/woodwind/parissx/images/M52.jpg


and this too

http://www.selmer.com/woodwind/parissx/images/M55AF.jpg

[jimeh]

Ooo sparkly.

[Pixel]

i drum....

there are lots of drummers here :)

my influential drummer is dj ken..
ive sat on his knee :D

[Schism]

I used to play piano and violin

but now i play the guitar and bass

i also sing...as in take lessons and such...does that count?>

[Beef Magic]

I wouldn't mind learning to play drums. They sound jolly and fun.

But at the moment, I'm playing a Squire Strat into a Peavey 65 Watt amp. For effects, I use a Boss PW-10 V-Wah pedal.

[Justin Sane]

I'm playing a Fender Squire P-Bass into a columbus 20 watt amp.

Thats pretty much it.

[leeroy]

im a drummer ive got a lovely pearl export double base kit, too many cymbols to list, and a massive influence to me is danny carrey the greatest drummer in the world.

ive been playing 6 years

[fishingfrog]

Originally posted by JimTheJim
Ooo sparkly.

I get that a lot ;)

[Death]

Originally posted by leeroy
im a drummer ive got a lovely pearl export double base kit, too many cymbols to list, and a massive influence to me is danny carrey the greatest drummer in the world.

ive been playing 6 years

eh???

I play guitar, badly but i still enjoy it. I aspire to play Sultans of Swing all the way through then I can put it down. until then ill just keep playin'

[Shave]

i play a Tanglewood Nevada Left Hander. Yep, i'm one of the few awkward people who play this way round, but there has to be someone to take over from where Kurt Cobain left off. Tim Armstrong is also an ace left-hand playing guitarist (he was the guitarist from Rancid and the Transplants)

[Beef Magic]

Surely you mean "is the guitarist for Rancid and The Transplants"...

To my knowledge they haven't split up.

I just put some new batterys in my PW-10 V-Wah.

Mmmm, noise :)

[LiveOLP]

i play guitar and my biggest influence is tom morello

[Shave]

Originally posted by Beef Magic
Surely you mean "is the guitarist for Rancid and The Transplants"...

To my knowledge they haven't split up.

Sorry, poor choice of language.

[joedude]

i play:

electric guitar: squier bullet which is really bad and cheap cos' i'm poor but i'm good so it sounds half decent and i have a zoom 606 multi-effects pedal and a squier SP-10 amp which is only 10 watts so when i turned up the volume once it blew up and i had to rewire it.

acoustic guitars: an Admira 3/4 size and some yamaha tiny 1/4 size thingy.

and i play the bass and drumkit as well.

oh yes, the BEST INSTRUMENT EVER (sarcastically) the descant and treble recorder!

woo hoo!

R.I.Punk Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone
all the joe's are dieng, nooooooo!

[Death]

tom morello is also a big influence for me and I consider him my favourite guitarist, but he doesn't need me to tell him, he has stacks of awards to do that.

[kamikaze]

Trumpet and attempt the quads and snare

[Tommuz]

I've been playing classical guitar for 10 years now and just got an electric guitar a couple of months back for me bday. Led Zep rule.

[Playbus]

I've played drums for 12 years.

I'm a member of an active band.

We rock.

[Smartie Popper!]

Piano and guitar..Self-taught so I'm not too good..

I can play the penny whistle! :p

[eleanor]

Piano and bassoon.

[eleanor]

A photo of me playing with an orchestra I was in in 2000... I'd have blurred out the other faces, but I can't be arsed, and I doubt anyone in the photo would care seeing as it was three years ago!

[thekatt]

*hides her face* i play viola.. i dont really like it, but i still play it... im gonna learn guitar or drums sometime... and of course i sing, but im not that great...

[KualaLumpur1997]

A viola player? Can you explain something to me..? Why do viola players use the Alto Clef? It doesn't seem necessary - the treble clef is so much more natural to read.

[Micky]

Originally posted by KualaLumpur1997
A viola player? Can you explain something to me..? Why do viola players use the Alto Clef? It doesn't seem necessary - the treble clef is so much more natural to read.

Only if you start with the treble - I'm a bass player, so my natural reading goes bass then tenor then treble then alto.

mmmmmm confuzzling :)

[eleanor]

I read bass and tenor with bassoon. Learning bassoon helped my bass clef playing on piano actually, which was nice. Tenor is nice and easy once learned. Alto clef for violas = fewer ledger lines, same reason tenor is used by trombones, cellos, double basses, bassoons.

[freddiestarfish]

i started off with piano, so i can read bass and treble clef well.
i gave up the piano, to continue with the trumpet, but being able to read bass claf is usefull, especially when you get given a french horn randomly (they use both)

[Seraph]

I play Bass Guitar... which i LOVE playing (My main instrument),
I play Acoustic Guitar...

I can also play on my Drum Machine, but i dont enjoy it as much as Bass...

Im a Bass girl :rolleyes:

[Cherokee Red]

My main one is the acoustic guitar - got a jim deacon electro.
I play bass aswell, can do a bit of the drums and keyboard and I sing.
But i only like my voice when tou can't really hear it!

[Johnny Barger]

could some one explin to me why u started another thread or was this one here before mine¿

[freddiestarfish]

this thread was started 16-09-2003

[Johnny Barger]

oh well u beat mine sorry didnt no this one existed

[SillyHatsOnly]

Originally posted by eleanor
Piano and bassoon.

YOU PLAY THE BASSOON! I love you. sounds sooo cool.


At Idyllwild my friend opened his bassoon case and one of the dancers went "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING???"

appropriate response. lol.




Oh. I play clarinet mostly, i have an alto and tenor sax. it doesnt count that i sing in my band too, does it? :-( no.

[malcolio]

I play the keyboard, and I'm quite good at it too. :)

[Dude_mon]

Drums
:weebl: look at him go:weebl:

[Beef Magic]

I have some good riffs lined up.

REAL riffs.

None of that fake riff stuff.

[OveraverageJoe]

I play gutiar:).

Have been playing for bout 6 monthes, am ok.

I want this guitar, i am going to pester my parents into getting it for me.

[Tommuz]

I play guitar and I want a Gibson Les Paul but its either that or a round the world trip. I think i know which one i'll go for though.

Btw, I would also like the guitar below :D

[joedude]

yuk, nasty guitar, NASTY!
poo faced man!

[Tommuz]

Thats a quality made guitar, ESP custom. They do brilliant guitars. Alright i would like a Gibson Les Paul more, and its only a quater of the price of that ESP, but i still wouldn't mind having that guitar just as a trophy guitar really.

[OveraverageJoe]

It would be a waste of money because it will cost at least £10,000.

Oh well if you have the cash go for it :).

[drew146]

I play trombone, guitar, a little alto sax, and im staring to learn bass bone.


PS: I am in one of the best high school bands in northern california, we're goin to canada this year fo a big marching festival, YAAAA GO EHS BAND!!!

[Tommuz]

Originally posted by OveraverageJoe
It would be a waste of money because it will cost at least £10,000.

Oh well if you have the cash go for it :).

£8000 actually :p technically i can afford it but i need money for uni :(

[joedude]

tommuz: Thats a quality made guitar, ESP custom. They do brilliant guitars. Alright i would like a Gibson Les Paul more, and its only a quater of the price of that ESP, but i still wouldn't mind having that guitar just as a trophy guitar really

ooh, fancy.

saddo

PUNK! DUDE!

[Tommuz]

what the fuck are you going on about?

[OveraverageJoe]

Don't listen to him he is clearly an idiot.

[Tommuz]

Thats what I thought.

[joedude]

shut you fuck heads!
all i meant is that guitar is a pile of, erm.
SHIT!

[Wickedweezer]

played the Bass for 6 years now!!!!!!!! WHAHAHAHA and played the drums for 2!!!

[Wickedweezer]

the electric bass that is

[nutnoodle]

I play mostly percussion (drums, vibraphone, triangle :p) etc...

Also play a bit of piano (not too good at it though)

Got my own drumkit last week. woooooooo :D

[PlasticVicar]

Electric Guitar
Electric Bass (though not very good)