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Do you peeps play any musical instruments?
I play the bass, used to take piano lessons when I was a kid and I can also play - don't laugh at me now because I'm serious about this - the recorder. Like, actually play it. Like, I've been taking lessons for the past 12 years and gone to other cities/countries for cultural exchange concerts and stuff with my ensemble and our lil recorders. I'm that serious about it.
So now I wonder if y'all play any instruments? Quirky instruments are welcome as well as traditional, I'd love to learn more!




I played the violin from middle school until university, I still have my violin but haven't had the opportunity to play for a long time now.
The Youth Orchestra I was in used to do residential weeks at an activity centre in our county but the coolest thing we got to do was a 2 week tour around Toronto and Niagara Falls (I'm in the UK so a trip to Canada is a big deal!)
That sounds really cool! I really want to visit Canada someday. The nature there looks almost unreal in the photos I've seen! Do they really have laminated money there? :o
The most interesting place I've ever played is Prague. Lots of fun memories from that trip!
We didn't get to see much nature, apart from the falls themselves (which look best from the Canadian side btw!) - I don't remember what their notes were like then, it was 1999! Our notes in the UK have started to be replaced with new "plastic" ones now actually :D
Prague is such an amazing place to play - so much history!
Ah, so the Canadian side is the way to go? Good to know, I've actually wanted to see the falls someday! (Just gotta save up the money to actually go...)
I guess plastic money is more hygienic than paper, but isn't it hard to fold up and put in your wallet? :o
Yeah you can see a much better view of the larger half of the falls from the Canadian side!
The plastic notes fold in half quite easily, though we only have the smallest, £5 notes so far, the rest are still paper. I think they are redesigning them because the plastic ones are harder to forge!
I play guitar, you can see my jaguar and jazzmaster over on /offset. I mostly play punk or Sonic Youth noise type stuff.
Ooh, I love jazzy stuff! ^^
Ya like jazz?(sorry But i has to)
This is totally off topic but LOOK AT THAT LIL PUPPY!!
Our Doggo had four puppers last summer!
Ive been playing guitar for about 15 years now. I also have been learning a bit of piano lately! I also sing too but that's usually just in my car lol I don't know if I'm actually good. I sound good to myself at the time when I'm singing but if I ever record it, I feel like it sounds horrible when I listen back lol
Oh, I can relate to that. My partner says I'm good, but I think he just does that to be nice...
I play clarinet, soprano saxophone, and tenor saxophone.
I also took piano lessons as a kid, but it never really stuck. I have a keyboard that I mess around with when composing, but I can't actually play it that competently.
I was a music major. My main instrument is voice, but I have a few others. Autoharp, piano, viola, violin, cello. We have a psaltry around here and I love it.
Wow! I was tempted to do music at university but since I struggle quite a lot with stage fright I've decided to apply for interactive design instead.
What's your plan for the future? I assume that you want to keep working with music but in what way? As a teacher or studio musician or something completely different? I'm curious!
I'm a cantorial soloist. Most of my singing now comes from musical theater though.
By psaltry you mean one of these things? That's pretty cool.
This kind but yes. Pretty easy to pick up if you're familiar with piano, actually. And easier to sing along with than violin.
Oh it's bowed. I thought it would be plucked. Neat.
There's a plucked one, too. I'm just more comfortable with bowed instruments.
I'm 17 and I've been playing the recorder since I was 6 :) nothing to be ashamed about. also, I can play the piano and I sing :)
I just feel like everyone I tell about it assumes that it's the basic recorder stuff you do in primary school where it sounds horrible. There's so much more to my instrument so that's why I was like "No, but seriously" in my post. I'm actually quite proud of my instrument since I know what it's capable of! :)
And ooh, what type of songs do you like to sing? I'm not a singer myself but I do envy singers incredibly much!
yeah, I know what you mean :) well, I'd sing anything I like.. I don't have a specififc genre
I used to play the flute, but it was ungood for my wrists. I miss it.
I had a friend in high school who played the flute too! She was really shy, though, so I never asked her to play for me. It's such a beautiful instrument, it's a shame I didn't ask her more about it.
I love the flute. I may retry it again at a point, if I can get a practice space where people can't hear me. Like with the violin, the sounds of a poor player are torturous.
Oh, yes! I feel you on that one. I went to a concert for oboe beginners a couple years ago. NEVER. AGAIN.
Does a laptop and launchpad count? Lol 😂
Close enough I guess. 😉
I play oboe, piano, and Balinese Gamelan!
Oboe? That's so cool! Unfortunately the only experience I've had with the oboe is listening to a concert with that year's beginners. It was torturous. It does seem like an incredibly impressive instrument in the right hands, though!
I play Guitar. Never went for training or something but picked it up watching youtube tutorials and googling song chords and tabs. Have been playing it for 5 years now and it has become a part of my routine. But I am still to explore scales and other theoratical stuff about it. You can say that I have crammed up the chords and patterns but can't create something of my own yet. Maybe someday I will be able to do that.
That's what I did for a couple years too, then I decided to take bass lessons when I was 16. I'm getting too old to take community music lessons now so I guess I'll just play on my own once this semester is over. (In my municipality you can take music lessons for cheap until you turn 20)
I went for training lessons of guitar a couple of times maybe. But the teacher was not able to keep me occupied in the basics. I think what type of person is giving lessons also matters in deciding the path you will take in your music journey. At that time I followed various youtube videos and tutorials and were fine for me. But now, that I have played by looking at the tabs and chords structures, I feel that I need to have some knowledge about scales and rythms.
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Yeah, I understand that must be hard. I'm happy to live in a house so I can be as noisy as I want, but I only practice when I'm home alone since I'm quite shy. I'm on about the same level as you when it comes to playing the piano, then. I've completely forgotten how to use the pedals properly and so on. Such a shame but I just don't really have the time to sit down and relearn everything. :/
I play the baritone.it's like a little tuba.
Oh, I know what those are, I think... my cousin used to play it! :)
I don't play an instrument but i do sing