What instruments do you play?

[Freakshow]

Real ones. Spoons don't count. Sorry.

I play guitar and piano.

[gutter]

Have played the sax. Can play the drums.

[Insidian]

I play guitar, bass, and the piano(somewhat):guitar:

[magnus]

mastery of the four major saxes. novice work on flute and clarinet, something that brasswinds often have to learn for doubling in the pit. Luckily never needed it. very basic knowledge of the piano.
Can play guitar and bass, though my slap bass work isn't what it should be. Can hold down basic rock beats on drums, have marched quads and snare in the past. Played vibraphone and can tune tympani.
Started to learn bagpipes in HS when it was suggested I learn, but lost interest. Didn't really get any time to understand the techniques on trumpet or violin but could get clear tone and go up four basic scales on each. Played with an upright bass once but that got snatched from me pretty quickly.

[Freakshow]

Oh, I can play the trumpet as well.

I can get around on a bass. I guess most people that play guitar can. I suck on the drums. If singing counts, that's my strongest. Then guitar.

[magnus]

yeah, bass is just interval work, for those that are the least bit mathematically inclined. I want to work on bass as I go along, I've always had a better feel for it than guitar, but I'll always make my living on the horn so it may never be a situation anyway. Then again I want to start messing with pedal board outputs soon.

[mathmajors]

Guitar, going on half my life now.

Played trumpet through college, haven't seen it but once or twice since.

[SandMan]

Damn, you boys are just one or two people away from forming a TBR Band.... :drums:

[lex]

no fair! how 'bout a saw?

[magnus]

Originally posted by SandMan
Damn, you boys are just one or two people away from forming a TBR Band.... :drums:

Actually I have a gig scheduled in two weeks with a new band that's formed partially of people from my other board. They're kinda new, but all experienced, and they just picked up a chick singer. Because they're still bringing in different drummers, they figured they'd have me come and jam.

[Kakia69]

use to play clarinet pretty well, but never really enjoyed it. Think the whole being in a high school band and having to play for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd chair just took out the fun for me.

Also, play the piano.

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by Kakia69
use to play clarinet pretty well, but never really enjoyed it. Think the whole being in a high school band and having to play for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd chair just took out the fun for me.

Also, play the piano.

I started out playing piano, for 4 years.

Had to sit at the end of the line in band, huh?:(

[magnus]

I always played a unique instrument in HS so I just roamed where I wanted. Never had to try out for nothing, never really even bothered practicing the given music.

[Chip]

1. Name your instrument
2. Give a description
3. What's your experience
4. Do you have a band?
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1. Drums
2. 7 pc Rogers XP8 maple kit -white (Brass Dynasonic snare, stainless piccolo snare)
3x14 piccolo
5 1/2 snare
12x9 tom
13x10 tom
16x15 floor tom
16x16 floor tom
22x16 kick
cymbals - All Zildjian
8" A splash
10" A splash
12" mini china
14" A Custom Crash
14" K thin crash
16" A medium crash
18" A medium crash
20" K Custom medium ride
14" K Mastersound hi hats
DW 5000 double pedal and hi hat stand

3. Started playing at 25. Yep, that's right...25. Going on 10 years now.

4. Sometimes band named Swamp Chicken - we play greasy funk/rock with an edge. Bass player thinks he's Les Claypool; Guitar player #1 thinks he's Stevie Ray Vaughan; Guitar player #2 thinks he's Jerry G; sax player thinks he's Skerik

Will post a pic of my babies tomorrow.

[mathmajors]

Hondo H-28HS guitar, don't know how old. At least 18 years old, 'cause that's how long ago I got it.

Martin D-3532 split back, 1987.

Takamine G335 12-string, don't know how old

Been playing since I got the Hondo back in '84. No band, but I've done my share of weddings and the like. My father, mother, and I formed a folk trio for a while.

Somewhere upstairs I got a Strad trumpet I used to play in college. Got no chops now.

[magnus]

Originally posted by Chip
1. Name your instrument
2. Give a description
3. What's your experience
4. Do you have a band?


1. Sax - most well versed in baritone, best tone on tenor, most flexible on soprano. Don't particularly like much that I do on alto.

2.
*1919 Buescher silver plate baritone sax
Mouthpiece assortment - 3* Otto Link "Master Link" (hand reworked by Bob Carpenter of Seattle, gold plated), Runyon Custom (in blue, reworked by Jon Van Wie of New York), Lawton BB* .120 handmade sterling silver.

1968 Buffet Super Dynaction tenor with Berg Larsen .120/1/M

1972 King Zephyr Alto, Runyon Custom or Meyer 5* (reworked by Jon Van Wie, NY)

1969 Weltklang silver plate soprano sax, Yamaha C* mouthpiece

3. Baroque experience for five years, starting in high school and resuming briefly a few months ago
Jazz experience of roughly a year, off and on work
Funk experience for seven years with local, regional, touring bands
concert experience for eleven years

4. one funk band, one rock band, a baroque ensemble on seemingly permanent leave.

My boy played a DW set, in the purple/gold scale flake, now he plays Pork Pie. Real tight.

[Chip]

Here's my babies:

[Chip]

And another:

[Chip]

and this one:
(notice the 2nd floor tom - there's an air tube sticking out of the side. When you blow in the tube, you change the pitch of the drum a'la Stanton Moore from Galactic)

[Chip]

Last one:

[lex]

am not a musician. but i do own a baldwin upright...who wants to be a baby grand when she grows up! :mushy:

[mathmajors]

:bump:

Here's one, pluto, but not the one I'm thinking about.

[mathmajors]

:bump:

For pluto.

[plutosgirl]

Thanks!:D

[plutosgirl]

Thanks!:D

[lex]

oh yeah, i can play the piano. also guitar, but i am not good at either.

i play for myself mainly. :)

[jazzbluescat]

Damn, plutogirl. Do something! :rolleyes:

[magnus]

yeah, add to it, and if you can't, go pick something up :D

[plutosgirl]

Ahh, I just asked math if he knew of the members on the board who play instruments and if anyone ever got together and jammed. I have/play an ovation guitar, don't know the model number on it, but it's a glen campbell series ( please tell no one) acoustic. I'm not very good, just play for me and friends when they play and like all types of music excluding opera ... ok is that what you wanted? :D sorry....

[magnus]

no worries, and yeah, that's cool. Doesn't matter if you just noodle, that you try is worth something. Even my father's going to learn how to play guitar at 53 years old, and good for him.

[jazzbluescat]

I love to play. But, I tend to shy away from guitar players, per se.

;)

[mathmajors]

This is a bump and a merge.

I added an Alhambra Spanish guitar that my mom gave me as her parting gift to me.

[jazzbluescat]

primarily tenor sax & flute
some other things, if I gotta

[magnus]

I've thought about picking up the flute. But I don't spend enough time on sax anymore. And then there's guitar.

Which, speaking of -
Tokai Star, running through Boss pedals - BD2 Blues Driver, PS2 Phase Shifter/Chorus, Vox wah, and Washburn tube amp. Yeah, the guitar's funny looking, but it's a damn load cheaper than a Rickenbacker or Gibson 335.

[RSgal]

I played the violin for 11 or so years taking private lessons and playing in school. I haven't touched it in about 4 years though. Needs new strings and I'm too damn lazy to buy them.

[Nytdreamer]

kazoo... it's all about the kazoo :cool:

[Coops Greatest Fan]

I played the violin from 4th grade until 8th grade. I think I was pretty good at it, but there weren't many others in the school district who played. Most went on to play in band which you could start in 5th grade (which I did as well) and played the trumpet through high school. Fresh/Soph/Sr years only in the marching band, but did the whole year my Junior year. The trumpet I played was the same one my mom played when she was in high school. It finally gave out when I was playing it my sophomore year. Wouldn't play a note, so I ended up getting a new one that had previously been a rental.

I wish I had stuck with the violin because I really enjoyed playing it. It's been 19 years since I picked it up, but everytime I see someone playing one, I think back to my playing days.

[hasbeen99]

I got no rhythm whatsoever. I can't even sing and clap at the same time. :(

Y'all musicians are cool! :xyzthumbs

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by hasbeen99
I got no rhythm whatsoever. I can't even sing and clap at the same time. :(


I'm not sure if it's all natural ability, but it helps to have parents or a family who are musically inclined. My mom played flute and sang, my dad plays guitar and sings, so they put me in piano lessons, church choirs, concert and marching bands, etc.

[Meow]

I can play the radio, the tape deck and the CD player. I used to be able to do turn tables too. :D

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by Meow
I can play the radio, the tape deck and the CD player. I used to be able to do turn tables too. :D

That's how I started and how I've ended up, too.:)

[jazzbluescat]

Originally posted by hasbeen99
I got no rhythm whatsoever. I can't even sing and clap at the same time. :(

Y'all musicians are cool! :xyzthumbs

I can damnwellguaranteeya that it is 90% hard work and desire, and 10%(or less)talent...matter of fact, I don't know what talent is. Everybody's got rhythm IMHO; figuring out how to make it intelligible, so to speak, is the work.
Nothing cool about it; tho, I 'preciate it.
Now, computers..that's cool. Dragging a little icon across the screen and putting it in another place, along with all the info it represents. Man! That's pure magic!

[magnus]

Yeah. Well, to me, part of talent is the mental part - making it challenging (so as to not be bored), but still appealing, so others will want to appreciate it, and creative. That's where I find Trane and Parker and Diz and Monk and ... so on to have been incredibly talented - they were all excellent musicians but it's what they made and what they did within it that is awe inspiring to me. For instance, Giant Steps is probably Trane's most challenging physical work, but it's good for just what it is. The modes, and then his spiritual work, mean something. Dizzy had bad tone unmuted, and Miles Davis was, to me, an average trumpet player. He flubbed a lot of notes that you won't hear the average college undergrad flub. But his body of music still stands up to most anything.

I play a mean see-and-say. hey you guitar geeks...what do you play? What's your setup? Do any of you actually play an electric instrument, even if it's an acoustic with pickups? Pedals? amp? I'm becoming more of a gearhead than a musician as a guitar player, but luckily it's not my main instrument. The see and say, then the sax, then the kazoo, then the guitar.

[El Bastardo]

See here:

Drums (http://www.thisboardrocks.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31717)

[lushboobs]

Piano and keyboards.

[Turbo]

Piano, guitar, and clarinet, in that order.

[Flyjax]

Trap drums, snare drum, percussion, tympani and bassoon.

[CalaLily]

I took piano lessons for 8 years and went to a fine arts high school. I don't play anymore, it's difficult with kids. One of these days I hope to get into it again.

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by CalaLily
I took piano lessons for 8 years and went to a fine arts high school. I don't play anymore, it's difficult with kids. One of these days I hope to get into it again.

8 years is great! If either of my kids want to play piano, I might have to take lessons again, too.

[jazzbluescat]

I was threatened into piano lessons and practicing for 'bout 6 years when I was a kid. My mother(rip) was a nazi in this area.:D
I thank her for it now. IMHO anyone going into music should have their roots, so to speak, in piano[rather that another, albeit popular, instument].

[mathmajors]

Originally posted by jazzredcat
IMHO anyone going into music should have their roots, so to speak, in piano[rather that another, albeit popular, instument].

Worked for me. Took 4 years of piano before I started having to read music in youth choirs and bands. Made site reading easier.

[Flyjax]

Originally posted by jazzredcat
IMHO anyone going into music should have their roots, so to speak, in piano[rather that another, albeit popular, instument].

I agree with that too.

I read bass clef really well, but struggle with treble clef.