music instruments

[Jezebel]

What instruments can you already play, and which do you want to learn? Which instrument is your favorite to play and/or listen to?

[Star Cannon]

I play a cello. I can play a bass guitar but I'm not an expert. I don't really have a desire to play another instrument but if I had to choose it would be a drum or clarinet, maybe.
But my favorite is the cello.

Star Cannon

[flan2dave]

It's been a while, but I'm sure I can still play the violin. I've thought perhaps I could learn to play the piano sometime.

[Birdsnest]

I improvise & write songs on the piano. (Half-assed, INTP fun creative style, sometimes it sounds decent, sometimes it sounds like I'm exploring, which I am, I like to be spontaneous and improvise!).
I can sort of play little bits of flute, and immitate Mission impossible.
Harmonica - a few blues riffs
Tiny bit of guitar, not much. Ode to Joy, a few chords, and a cowboy song called "Happy Trails".

[HackerX]

I play guitar atm... and I've also been known to play clarinet

[Salad]

age 7: started taking piano lessons
age 9: joined a handbell choir
age 10: started playing alto sax
age 11: stopped taking piano lessons
age 13: started playing bass guitar, took lessons for a year, also took up tenor sax
age 15: bari sax
age 17: my brother got a guitar, i played it more than he did
age 18: graduated high school, stopped playing all instruments in formal settings

i still play every now and then. i want to learn piano better. i want to learn violin. handbell choir kicked ass. so did bari sax. i have a very strong background in theory.

[Odyssey]

*votes piano*

Maybe I'll learn the viola in college... But violins are too small for my hands. (Piano players might understand if I mention my 10-white-key reach.)

~Odyssey

[Johnny]

I play the piano, guitar, bass guitar, all valve-operated brass instruments, voice, and doublebass. My first childhood memories are of taking out the pots from the bottom kitchen cabinet and beating on them to make music.

Besides playing the doublebass now and singing in (yet another) pop band, I'm learning the concertina a little. Along with all the fun I'm having, my current musical goal is to win an audition with my local symphony and support them as a performing member. :sombrero:

My favorite instrument to hear is the voice, regardless of the music genre. There's little music I don't like, and I think music is a blessing regardless of one's participation or skill level.

[int]

Bass guitar, drums, guitar, trumpet, piano.

Although I've got to re-learn the piano - I know the mechanics but haven't played formally for a long time. I also want to take vocal lessons. Maybe then I'll be a badass Kazooer. Harmonica is on the list as well.

[KentOhio]

I went out and bought an accordion last year. It would be great if I learn how to play it right.

[libertarianjim]

I played a little bass guitar when I was in college, but nothing since.

I'd rather not learn another instrument -- I'd like to learn how to sing, though.

[Sugaraddict2702]

I play the viola, and the guitar (classical that is, hope to try electric soon). Would love to be able to play the English horn, or the piano. have no real favorite instrument, I like to much music for that.

Ellen*

[Vagabond]

I play the guitar and just a little bit of mandoline. I am not good at either though :blush:

[Crazy]

I can play the piano, the trumpet, and I sing. All of which I got out of for awhile since I am in the Marines. I hope to learn the guitar, the bass, the drums, and maybe some other cool instruments like the banjo and steeldrums.

[Melody]

I went out and bought an accordion last year. It would be great if I learn how to play it right.
My father's friends bought an accordian and put it in his hands, thinking that he could use his technical wizardry (dad is probably an intp) to play it like a master.

They were wrong. Tee hee.

Mexican "banda" (dunno the proper term) music uses accordians. Los Tigres Del Norte are good. So are Los Tucanes de Tijuana.

[antireconciler]

I can't play any intrument fluently, but I want to learn piano and guitar.

[ohnoaninfp]

I am going to be learning how to play the violin soon. Only one problem, I can't read music! So I am taking piano lessons to help me learn how to read music.

[int]

I am going to be learning how to play the violin soon. Only one problem, I can't read music! So I am taking piano lessons to help me learn how to read music.

I would hope your violin instructor would help you to learn...no sense learning piano if all you want to do is learn charts. :mellow:

[Miss Padfoot]

There's little music I don't like, and I think music is a blessing regardless of one's participation or skill level.Clearly you've never heard a beginner violinist. :P

I play the piano and I love it. I'm pretty piano-obsessed. I love it because of the complexity you can get on it. Orchestral music is wonderful, but as an introvert, I think it's a hassle that you can only get such complexity when you have fifty other musicians and a conductor. Granted, the piano's not as complex as an orchestra, but it's about as close as you can get to one with one person (except for the organ).

[Sam172]

I can't play any musical instrument :-(.

I have a guitar here (long story, been in the family for over 25 years) and i've never learned how to play it....and to be honest I don't really have any strong ambition to.
I would however love to play some sort of woodwind instrument....something that's deeper and more resonant in sound than a piddly little pan pipe. However being musically inept I have no idea of an instrument like that...

I do however have a muscially talented girlfriend who can play the violin, piano and is starting to learn to play the guitar....which is good because she is teaching me how to read music and piano theory :D

[jimkopelli]

Handbells, percussion (basically, anything you can hit with a stick, or also things you just hit, which narrows it down to everything) though my main weapon of choice in HS marching band was bass 4 (the big one) or marimba or timpani, air guitar (not really) and the radio. I also whistle, and beatbox, though not very well.

[Johnny]

[quote=Johnny]Clearly you've never heard a beginner violinist. :P

:lol:

Even violinists must start at the beginning, you know. For those who are fortunate to be able to hear music in their heads from the beginning, the learning curve isn't quite so steep at the start...but knowing where the notes are on the fingerboard and developing the "muscle memory" for them is a process that takes time.

Still, the piano is a very beautiful instrument also. :hug: :sombrero:

[nobarcode]

I play guitar rather infrequently, therefore I suck. I have one guitar that is MIDI equipped so I can play other "sounds". I like to listening to the melodic phrasing of horns and then try to play it (the horn melody) on the guitar.

With MIDI I can come up with just about any sound imaginable. It's therapy for me, but I doubt anyone else would ever want to listen to it.

[int]

I would. I want a midi guitar but am insecure about tonal quality (too many years of amateur audio engineering...plus the typical paranoia induced skepticism). Are you satisfied with the sound? How 'bout once you layer it (that is, if you've recorded 2 + tracks on the same song)?

[nobarcode]

I would. I want a midi guitar but am insecure about tonal quality (too many years of amateur audio engineering...plus the typical paranoia induced skepticism). Are you satisfied with the sound? How 'bout once you layer it (that is, if you've recorded 2 + tracks on the same song)?
Yeah. I turn into complete a contradict when it comes to tone. On the one hand, it's Gibson Les Paul strung with 12's and a high action through a Twin Reverb. And on the other, I go for the Fender Strat rigged with a GK-2A pick-up through an old Roland GR-1, gets split, processed, doubled, mutilated...you get the picture. The first midi pick-ups had tracking problems. The GK-2A is much improved over previous versions, but I'm sure it's all much improved by now as I'm talking about 10 year old equipment. I haven't done much in the way of recording anything.

[int]

<drools />


If you ever feel the need for an ultimate tonal test, I'm your man. :) :)

[nobarcode]

How do you mean?

[int]

I'd like to try that guitar.

[Johnny]

Pauls are great guitars. I still have mine hanging. The midi thing is cool, but I've never used one...just saw Al DiMeola use one on a PRS. He split the signal between a flute sound and an overdriven guitar and would weave those two sounds in and out of each other while he soloed.

I was big into Eric Johnson when I played guitar and did my own 2-amp setup - a Fender Bandmaster with a lexicon reverb for clean stuff and a Mesa Boogie for distortion. But the Paul/Twin combo is certainly a win-win situation. :D

[nobarcode]

Al DiMeola, Jerry Garcia, and Pat Metheny especially used the the synth set-up. The flute is sound is particularly cool. It's the sound, but your playing it on the guitar, so it forces you to use your fingers differently in order to make the "flute" sound...more like a flute. That same concept gets funky with "horns" too. With the GR-1, you can literally morph the sound from full guitar into full whatever in real time and everywhere in between with a volume pedal. That's a really cool aspect.

Sounds like some of you face the same conflict that I do: tone vs. techno. It's funny really. Perhaps conflict isn't the best word, but..

[Johnny]

Yeah, those guys are great players too. Music is just so huge a thing. I think the tone vs. techno issue is something that we use to impose limitations, to help us comprehend it all.

Not that this is a bad thing, to comprehend it all somehow, but there are those moments when I just don't comprehend anything while I play, and the most beautiful things appear when I go to the playback. I definitely believe in the fantasy of "so and so's spirit entered me there, and I was just a channel", if for no other reason than to be open to the possibility that music can occasionally express things that rational thought isn't capable of doing...even if I laugh back at myself for such a claim. I like magic. :sombrero:

[paladinoflunaria]

Drums (drum set as well as marching drums), misc. percussion, marimba (xylophone, etc.), and piano. Music makes sense to me. I can sing and whistle, but neither one do I excel at. I understand the music but I have a mediocre voice. I never did choir, too many snobs who didn't really get music. I have an extremely good memory for music, and I have decent Relative Pitch, and I have pseudo-Absolute Pitch. I don't spend any time playing music outside a formal setting, though, because I don't have enough motivation to.

Some instruments I would like to learn to play: violin (more toward fiddle), cello, uillean pipes, and various whistles.

I am extremely interested in composing, and I make up stuff all the time, but I never write it down, and I'm not motivated enough to write it.

[Poison Okra]

Uilleann pipes are awesome! So are the whistles. Anything Irish, really.

[Maniac]

At some point I've done Piano, guitar, drums, congo drums, and especially music creation through sequencers and synthesizers. In typical INTP fashion I never stuck with one long enough to get good at it, so I'm pretty crappy in all of them. Just started learning piano again, learned part of "Nocturne in Eb" (great song).

I'll probably hit up guitar next.... again ;)

[happyturkeyman]

My prime instruments are pennywhistles and flutes. I make flutes. I also can play silver flute and piccolo. I also know enough to dabble around on sax, harmonica, and piano. I want to learn violin.

[Heather Harrison]

I play the viola and violin - rather badly. I started about seven months ago; I hadn't played any instruments before that (except for a few weeks of piano lessons when I was a child). Assuming that I stick with it, it will probably be two years or so before I reach a reasonable level of competence. They are difficult instruments.

Heather

[aklight]

Guitar. To a lesser extent, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica, drums, bass, and vocals.

I'm very interested in the saxophone, clarinet, harp, piano, violin, cello, trombone, double bass.... I love music.

[Ghost-Girl]

When I was younger I took piano lessons, and can still read simple music and sound okay while just messing around. I'd love to get back in lessons. I was totally spoiled with piano though, it's such an easy instrument to play. When I tried out learning guitar I was put off by the awkward hand positions.

I also sing relatively well (mezzo-soprano) and have had a few voice lessons.

[Nemesis]

Violin and viola. I love listening to acoustic guitar and cello.

[rawr]

I play leadish guitar in this band http://myspace.com/roctopus I have a problem with just improving everything i play and never write parts though. So, sometimes it sounds sloppy. I really want to learn how to play piano and viola(the hands are to damn big for violin).