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I myself play the piano, and am currently in the midst of my AMEB Eighth Grade studies. Next level is Associate Diploma.

Comes with perks like being able to play Bohemian Rhapsody for your high school choir. Interesting piece. :D

So who else here plays an instrument?

I learned a bit of trumpet, guitar and harmonica before I figured out that I didn't have the attention span to be a musician. I kind of miss the trumpet.

In Middle School and my first two years of High School I played the saxophone in band class. I think the last time I played it was a year or two ago, though.

I learned a bit of trumpet, guitar and harmonica before I figured out that I didn't have the attention span to be a musician. I kind of miss the trumpet.

Your wife doesn't :)

Saxamaphone.

Got to my associates degree and new that if I wanted to go any further I would have to seriously bust ass in a way I hadn't yet and at the time I was practically sleep walking through playwrighting and winning awards and scholarships so I jumped ship.

Right now I'm beginning to question the wisdom of that decision.


You know what's sad is when you have to make several attempts at spelling a word just so the spell checker can guess what the hell you were going for....(and no it wasn't saxamaphone, that's how Homer says Saxophone...)

I play the fiddle.

Guitar, saxophone and a little piano.

Yeah, the usual stuff. School band, etc.

Six and 12-string guitar, piano/keyboards, clarinet.

I've played viola for 9 years. Picked up a violin over Christmas, as well.

Yay, orch-dorks! ^^

Your wife doesn't :)

The trumpet was a lot like me: Loud, versatile and twisted. :)

The trumpet was a lot like me: Loud, versatile and twisted. :)
Wouldn't that be a French Horn?
Yes, yes ... LG and his "spit valve"
:eek:

Guitar but not very good.

Guitar, piano/synth, bass guitar, and drums. Currently trying to learn the pennywhistle, hammered dulcimer and bodhran. Yes, I know I'm an overacheiver. It's worked so far. :)

keyboards half assed self taught. french horn and mellophone for almost real (just never done anything comercial with any of it). other brass of course. recorder and pennywhistle. computer emulation of analog synth modules and look ma', i can play a sequencer, mixed down with audacity.

never could get my hands arround a fret board though. and seriously need a LOT more work and practice to actually do anything worth a dam with keyboards, but love synth's. (and therimins, or the idea of them anyone, though i've never had one of those to play with. maybe someday. right now all i've got is stuff that runs on the comp. long sad story what happened to other things. not all at once though. were talking about over the period of a lifetime.)

did play in a recorder consort once upon a time. and the french horn was mostly in high school ages ago. first horn second chair. second horn first chair. we had five of us. mellophone before that in grade school. that's what i began on.

i do have a 'tin ear', so i can't really pick up tonal sequences that way, only phrasing. but i can read chicken scratches just fine, and tune to a standard pitch by nulling the beat frequency just fine too.

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I myself play the piano, and am currently in the midst of my AMEB Eighth Grade studies. Next level is Associate Diploma.

Comes with perks like being able to play Bohemian Rhapsody for your high school choir. Interesting piece. :D

So who else here plays an instrument?

Wow, well done.
I was AMEB Grade... 4 - I think - for flute, but I quit.
I've done AMEB Level 2 - I think (I'm really not interested in grades, as you can see) - for contemporary singing.

I sing and play piano badly. I played flute for years, and I played Saxaphone for a year, but it was affecting my flute ombeshure. I used to have a drum kit, but I wasn't very good, and I have a guitar, but I can't play it.

I play bass guitar, bass viol (also known as stand-up bass, upright bass, double bass, etc.), trombone and guitar (the last I'm not that great at).

I play some instruments.

I myself play the piano, and am currently in the midst of my AMEB Eighth Grade studies. Next level is Associate Diploma.

Comes with perks like being able to play Bohemian Rhapsody for your high school choir. Interesting piece. :D

So who else here plays an instrument?

Hey, me too. I'm awful at the piano now, though, because I haven't really played properly for six months.

I also attempt to play the guitar and fail.

BBb bass (That's a tuba to most of you!)

I've played the piano for as long as I can remember, and the flute since about 8 years old. I've had various careers, mostly in the finance industry (although I had an interesting stint in environmental health - I'll NEVER eat kebab) but always thought I'd keep music as a hobby rather than a job. However, I'm now considering training as a music therapist. Does anybody have any experience in that field?

Piano.
My best achievement was Beethoven's Piano Sonata n.21 .

I'm learning to play the desk

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tapping.png

Flute and Bassoon for me!
No "band camp" jokes, please... that movie ruined high school for me! Hence the switching to Bassoon... which coincidentally looks alot like a bedpost. Yeah....

Freakin' cool instrument though.

I play the piano. And I love it!

At the moment, I play the tuba and the piano. I've also tried the flute and the viola. I sing all vocal parts from tenor II to soprano I (but, if I'm singing soprano, I hope you were really desperate -- it's not pretty). I'd like to learn how to play classical guitar.

Never formally studied piano (actually started with music theory and composition before going on to play), but I can make it through most of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 101, as the most recent example. Have also attempted the violin and the cello, both of which I gave up because I couldn't be bothered to practice; and a career as a flautist was nipped in the bud when, despite repeated efforts, I couldn't make any noise come out of the darn thing.

My house also contains a harmonica and a snare drum with broken snares; and when I was younger, my family had an acoustic guitar, but nobody ever played it and so it was sold.

Does giving taxi service to the family violist count? My youngest son is genuinely gifted. :p

I play piano, but I suck at it. My hubby played clarinet through college. My other boys play kazoo. ;)

Flute, sax, bass and piano to a reasonable standard. Plenty of other instruments to a crappy standard :p

I'm more of a theory geek than a performer though.

To a fairly low self-taught standard I can play guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, fiddle (though haven't played it for a long time so pretty rusty) and I am currently learning the tenor banjo and piano.

Piano, oboe and voice.

Bass, borh guitar and upright.

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I sing (very well), play the piano (passably), and used to play the flute (very badly). :)

I played clarinet a while ago. Best of my music class. I'm determined to buy one soon...as soon as I have money.

i play classical guitar and a bit of blues.

I'm currently getting a minor in clarinet performance. :)

I also play tuba (technically just sousaphone) in my school's marching and pep bands. We just got back from our conference's basketball championships.. oh my God so much playing.

I'm attempting to teach myself guitar, too, but that sounds awful at the moment.

Flute, somewhere between grade 4 and grade 6 (RCM), violin, grade 4 (but I haven't played it for almost 2 years), and voice.

Violin, a thoroughly enjoyable instrument to play... but only if you can play it well (I used to be able to)

Ever since my senior year of high school ended last summer, its just been sitting in my closet, gathering dust and getting out of tune. I think I've played it for a total of an hour since last June, and I'm way rusty. Can't shift easily to 5th position anymore. (sigh)

I used to play cello.

I sing badly on occasion, does that count?

i haven't played my guitar in about 9 months. i'm going to play.

I can whistle really good and I can play a little bit didjeridoo (or however you spell that, it's a tube of wood from australia). Anyway, I wish I could play a more impressive instrument.

i can make the sound of a didjeridoo by mumbling (can't think of better word to describe it) through a cardboard tube. never tried it properly though. with my lungs and lack of coordination i doubt i could master that mad breathing trick you need to do.

Guitar (just over a year of playing, I'm getting pretty good), piano (I started playing when I was nine... all in all, I'd say eight months of piano practice has come out of those years), percussion (making beats on any and all surfaces, in synch with my feet --- I very much want to play the drums), and vocals.

My Stratocaster is currently in the shop, awaiting pickup. I've been playing my acoustic in its absence, though said acoustic is so dreadfully bad that even experienced steel string players have trouble with it.