What musical instrument do you play?

[ChiefHappyButt]

Even if not proficient, what musical instrument causes you joy to play?

[Bertha Venation]

1. guitarist of 28 years

:hi:

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. Drums for 9 years

...

[asthmaticeog]

3. Guitar n/t

[Postman]

4. Bluegrass Banjo

n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. Violin

and I am stuggling with acoustic guitar (I have nerve damage in my strumming hand)

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Uesd to play the Alto Sax.

gave it up after high school. Was never any good at it.

[ChiefHappyButt]

9. that's because the others

were jealous!

Never give up! Joy is joy!

[BlueJazz]

37. Was a Professional Jazz Musician for many years

...Sax....also play "at" piano....chords and vamping ok....don't solo very well....Monk, I'm not!

[oxymoron]

7. piano...

jazz piano.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Sax for 30 years.

I even have a degree in it.

Guitar for 8 years, although I consider my self "nearly adequate" on it.

Bagpipes for 10 years.

Also play flute, clarinet, oboe, bass, harmonica, and tuba. Yes, TUBA.

[ChiefHappyButt]

15. if your're scheduled to play somewhere, sometime

let me know!

[Blue-Jay]

19. I play in Ohio, mostly.

Haven't had a weekend off since NYE.

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. Guitar, mandolin, harmonica.................

keyboards, drums. Oh yeah, vocals

[Papa]

11. Guitar, about 20 years

Sometimes tis very frustrating. I also like tinkering around on the piano.

[Ladyhawk]

12. I'm a fairly accomplished vocalist.

I know "real" instrumentalists often don't consider voice a real instrument, but I do. :)

[ChiefHappyButt]

16. Of course it is

take a look at the history of music!
You have something that makes people hypnotized as much as any other instrument!

[Vitruvius]

23. Classical musicians consider the human voice to be an instrument,

and opera singers refer to their "instrument".

[Ladyhawk]

41. I'm classically-trained.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Like we used to say in orchestra: there are musicians,

and then there are those who sing.

:spank:

[Ladyhawk]

43. It actually requires many years to become a decent,

classically-trained vocalist.

I admit that instrumentalists probably read music a lot better than I do...although I do OK.

One problem we have that usually isn't applicable to instrumentalists: the voice can get sick! Right now my vocal cords are swollen because I talked all the way to and from a concert, plus practiced for several hours, plus sang in a concert.

Today in voice class I couldn't deal with my Brahms piece. It was like I was trying to command a foreign piece of meat. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

47. Yes, I realize that, that's why I had the spank icon there

I'm also a singer, though not actullay trained, not significantly, any way. I know how hard it is to sing well.

It was a tongue-in-cheek joke, one of those wonderful musicianly teasing semi-offensive jokes that's just meantin fun, like, "What did the tympani player get on his IQ test? Drool." or "How are a viola and a trampoline similar? No one cares when you jump on them." or "What's the definition of a gentleman? Someone who knows how to play the accordian and doesn't."

[Interrobang]

35. Voice is my primary instrument, too.

I also have an ongoing argument with a musician friend of mine as to whether I play the guitar -- I'm on the con side, he's on the pro. (My view is that *he* can play; I just fool around.)

I also play computer -- MIDI synth software, and I'm a fairly good arranger, if I may say so myself!

[Paul Hood]

13. Guitar, more finger picking than strumming these days. n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Harmonica!!!

:hi:

[ChiefHappyButt]

17. I have five harmonicas

and play them every chance I get! It's a great sound - soulful!

[furrylitldevil]

18. guitar for 5 years now

Shoot, has it been that long since I started? Memories...

[SOteric]

20. Flute, piccolo, percussion and melodic percussion

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Perhaps a Partch and Xenakkis fan?

[trogdor]

21. air guitar

n/c

[Blue-Jay]

22. Air Guitar?

Wyld Stallions RULE!

[Xandor]

24. Guitar, 40 years

Fingerstyle these days -- mostly Celtic stuff. Used to play blues & rock on Strats and Pauls.

[GumboYaYa]

25. Trumpet....

but I don't play enough these days to have the strength to play the way I like to play. Trumpet takes amazing lip and abdomen strength to play well.

[ms_splash]

26. penny whistle

also french horn from when i was a kid, although I'm pretty rusty, i'm sure.

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. Violin and handbells, but mostly now I sing and compose

in terms of getting my musical jollies. Haven't played the violin in a couple years, which is really sad, I know, but I've been doing other artistic things instead.

[EV1Ltimm]

30. viola

and guitar... although people seem more impressed when i break out mozart's eine kleine nachtmusick than slayer's angel of death

[TrogL]

31. Pipe Organ, piano

[LincolnMcGrath]

32. Ondes Martenot.

[rtassi]

33. Piano/guitar

mostly honky tonk/rock 40 years now ( I also play the accordian)

[mitchum]

34. theremin, piano, guitar, steel, harp,

[jayfish]

36. Drums For About 15 Years But I Love Rhythm Guitar. -NT-

Jay

[AlFrankenFan]

38. Lots

-Tenor saxophone
-Baritone saxophone
-Accoustic guitar
-Violin
-Piano
-Flute
-That little recorder thing

[tigereye]

39. drums in a post-punk band for many years

piano actually had lessons
guitar
bass

[Red State Rebel]

40. Violin, bassoon, piano

[LastKnight]

42. violin, Guitar,

can find my way around a bass and mandolin if my life depended on it, but only if

-LK

[jpgray]

44. All strings, guitar, piano, drums. Some crappy baritone skills. :-) (nt)

[leftofthedial]

45. piano

other keys

guitar

sing

[chefgirl]

46. Piano

Hated it when I was a kid and had to go to the convent for my lessons, though.

-chef-

[ChoralScholar]

48. Part of the package

I had to learn most all band and orchestral while working on my music degree.

Primarily, though, I am a vocalist. I feel your pain with the vocal fatigue, LadyHawk. I'm hoping my voice holds out until I get some health insurance and get my cords looked at. (I'm pretty sure I have a vocal nodule)

[greendog]

49. Acoustic Guitar

n/t

[Beaker]

50. I played string bass in jr. high...

but it was mostly because I was tall, and in advanced math & english...they offered me the "opportunity" to join the orchestra, and get lessons in the bass from the jr. high orchestra conductor.
i said yes.
later on in life, I figured out what the why behind it really was- the part about them needing another tall person to hold up the fiddle. Due to a birth defect, I have a deformed right hand- the middle finger ain't all there- mostly just a stub, the other three fingers are all shorter than they should be, the knuckle closest to the tip of each finger is fused, and the last two fingers cannot work independently of each other- if one of them moves, the other does the same
all in all, not the ideal condition for playing pizzicato...so i got frustrated, the instructor got frustrated...it just wasn't fun, and is just another log on the fire when it comes to my experiences with public education

[VOX]

51. Guitar, blues harp, drums, ukulele, empty Sparkletts bottles...

Used to play clarinet, too, but I am lacking an axe in that department -- mercifully.

[Mick Knox]

52. Drums ratta tat tat

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

53. I have played the Clarinet for 14 years now .

[Bake]

54. Banjo, guitar (30 yrs), bass, mandolin, fiddle, dobro

Bake

[Whitacre D_WI]

55. Guitar, bass guitar, drums, organ, bhodran, sitar, flutophone...

...and many more.

With varying degrees of success.