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Does anyone play a musical instrument?

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My mom required me to take two years of piano lessons. Then, she said, I can pick any instrument I wanted to play after that.

I picked drums! After two years of wigging my fingers to scales and rudimentary songs, I was ready to beat the living shit out of everything, and I was the Drum Major in school and I made the entire band march to my tune.

I was in a rock band and I should have stuck with it because we could have been the next Scorpions. But I had to sell my set in college and, well, I got a wild hair a few years ago and got this Simmons electric set which is awesome because I can play at 2am and there are like a hundred different drum sets and like a thousand sounds and they all sound fantastic.

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So anyone else play an instrument?
 
I started playing piano when I was 4 years old. Never got good at it. Then, in summer school I tried a bass saxophone. Then in the 5th grade I took up the Sousaphone/tuba. I played that through high school.

For years after that, I played the stereo.

Now I play the Native American flute and I have a collection of concert quality flutes in various keys.
 
I played all the sax in high school - soprano/alto/tenor/bari - still own my alto and goof around now and again. Couple years of trumpet but not enough for decent proficiency. Not too shabby as a Rockband drummer
 
Piano for me as a lad. 5-9 or ten. I liked it but wanted to play pop music. You know Born Free and Moon River stuff. Mom forced classical. I revolted.

Had the pleasure of watching Martin play his flute some years ago. Video unfortunately is too large to load. He plays good!!
 
Owned a Baldwin studio grand for many years. I could play it like a little kid plays a toy harmonica. Wife, who can play, would close the door when I started banging on the keys.

Music is like painting/drawing for me. I can discern an appropriate brush stroke, just can't produce one.
 
I wish I could play. I have a couple of basses and did play in a band for a while. I have a ukelele, a mandolin, and an acoustic guitar. But my germanic fingers preclude any fantasies of becoming an accomplished musician. Sometimes, I like to pick up an instrument and strum it, just so I can wonder at the vibration, the echo, and the mystery that makes a stringed instrument.
 
Not anymore but I was a band nerd all through elementary school to high school. Trumpet, baritone, piano.
 
I can't play the radio.

Friend gave me a guitar once. I dabbled with it, but could never make it do anything. Several years later I realized you're supposed to press on the strings BETWEEN the frets.

Oh.

So, yea, musical instruments. Not my gift.
 
I have an Antigua Winds Alto Saxaphone (AS520BC - Black nickel-plated body with gold-plated keys). Its basically a computer copy of a Selmer Paris Super Action 80 Series II pro alto

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I played violin and then the clarinet and some saxophone all through middle/highschool. I really wanted to be playing the trombone, and asked for the trombone but the music store dude said here sweetie, you can play the clarinet :|

I loved playing in the symphony, and I miss being part of that kind of production. I learned just a little too late about the Punk Rock Orchestra from a few decades ago, which would have been a blast. My kid played my clarinet for a year and then the trumpet (beautifully!) for a bit, so I got to mess around with it, and we still have it from his school because the instrument tally got all messed up during covid, so basically I’ve stolen a trumpet. Now I have a ukulele that I try to play and I think I should really focus on it because it makes me happy.
 
Lucytriple said:
I played violin and then the clarinet and some saxophone all through middle/highschool. I really wanted to be playing the trombone, and asked for the trombone but the music store dude said here sweetie, you can play the clarinet :|

I loved playing in the symphony, and I miss being part of that kind of production. I learned just a little too late about the Punk Rock Orchestra from a few decades ago, which would have been a blast. My kid played my clarinet for a year and then the trumpet (beautifully!) for a bit, so I got to mess around with it, and we still have it from his school because the instrument tally got all messed up during covid, so basically I’ve stolen a trumpet. Now I have a ukulele that I try to play and I think I should really focus on it because it makes me happy.
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I might have a stolen trumpet too. I bought it from the kid down the street for twenty dollars. It's a Yamaha!
 
I still own two Yamaha acoustic guitars that I quit playing when carpal tunnel made playing impossible. After surgery on my hands, I let playing go due to lack of calluseses on finger tips, and lack of old man finger dexterity. Actually, I never played guitar, I played with it.:)
 
I play a pretty mean kazoo.

On a more serious note, my grandparents set up guitar lessons for me when I was a kid, but I broke my wrist and never went back.
In college I started taking piano, but got a role in a musical and had to quit.

So, my instrument became my voice.
 
Scrap said:
When I was a young teenager, I badly wanted to play guitar.

After some recent hand surgery and needing hand therapy, I've taken acoustic guitar lessons and achieved my goal of playing guitar badly.
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Craig Chaquico was given a guitar by his doctor when he was a kid. It was supposed to help with his recovery from a bad car crash. He ended up, at the age of 15, as the lead guitarist for the Jefferson Starship and later he had his own solo career. Check out his solo albums if you’ve never heard of his work. Acoustic Highway and Acoustic Planet are his first two solo albums.
 
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