Anyone here play an instrument?

[Navajo]

Anyone here play an instrument? I myself do, I play bass guitar and 6-string guitar. I first started playing 3 years ago when I was working at a tacobell and across the street was a music store. I really wanted to play bass, so after the late shift on a tuesday night. I went dumpster diving, and at the very bottom of a pile of boxes I found a squire strat. The headstock was busted and the pickups long gone. So I took it to a freind of mine to see if he could fix the head stock. He did, so after working and saving up I went into the music store and got new pickups, a amp, strings and a cable. That night I stayed up strumming and pretty much just enjoying the guitar. About 3 months after that I saved everypenny I could to buy a Gretch ripoff (seriousley no label on headstock or a serial #). It was the best 300 dollars I ever blew.

Rate now I still have both guitars, with a squire acustic some kid at school threw away because he killed the bridge while trying to look cool in class. I get commented on how ugly my instruments are, but don't pay much attention to them because I know they sound and preform even better than almost every other guitar I have played. (I go around stores acting like I'm might buy guitars just so I can give them a test drive)

I'm still pretty stoked I have them.

[desertlizard]

drums

[smorzando]

piano (started when i was like, 5 or so, it's my first instrument and also the one i love the most), guitar (started when i was about 14), and percussion -- everything except drumkit, but mostly i play tuned stuff, like bells and timpani and so on, because the other percussionist in the orchestra i'm in cannot read sheet music!!

the guitar i have is a steel string acoustic cort. it was a fairly cheap birthday pressie but good quality for its price. i may or may not get another one eventually but i dont really need it at the moment, my current one suits me fine. tho admittedly, i need new strings and am as usual too lazy to get them.

[rantingpete]

I play guitar. I was in a band 20 years ago called 'The Big Wednesday'. We didn't get anywhere but it was the best years of my life. I still write and record when I get the time.

[danecobain]

I play guitar and sing, and dabble with a variety of other instruments (drums/keys/bass/harmonica/ukulele)

[magic]

I try to play the guitar, started self-teaching myself about a year and a half ago and never looked back! I also can play the triangle :P

[Navajo]

Smorzando your suppose to change strings every 2 weeks. I don't, but I do it monthly for my guitars. Only 2 times a year for my bass.

[magic]

I kept my last set of strings for about a year or so. While that is probably too long, it doesn't matter too much to me and every 2 weeks is ridiculous unless you are playing professionally. You can also take them off and clean them which apparently helps.

[danecobain]

I change my strings every time that one of them breaks

[smorzando]

nah, two weeks is for pros. i'm far from pro. if i played guitar as much as i played piano, then yeah. otherwise no. i try to change them every 6-8 weeks but then again i'm lazy and i'm poor so it doesnt happen. i don't even tune my piano as often as i should and i use that every day. but a piano tuning costs more than guitar strings.

smorz.

[Captain Cosine]

Just started playing bass guitar a few days ago. I'm not lookin' to do anything big with my playing, just create an emotional experience for myself when I get better. I've always loved the piano too, but never played. Last time I touched one was a few years ago at church i just sat down afterwards at it and started freestyling, my uncle thought I played piano so I guess I didn't do terrible xD. I have no money for lessons, or a piano for that matter, so it will remain simply a desire for the time being.

[S.Tehrani]

I do a bit of clarinet, I suppose.

[gabquotesl]

i used to play on an organ and flut. but this was long time ago....

[Rachael D]

I play acoustic guitar and write my own songs, I should change my strings a lot more often :) especially as I play live venues every now and then, I also like to dabble in some light percussion...but im no drummer :)

[Miss Courtney Leigh]

I used to play Piano

[Nobody]

I sing.

I'm also into synths. I can play a tad on almost everything. Never learned an instrument though. :(

[H A R M O N Y]

I scream, sing, and teaching myself how to play guitar.

[Andreas]

I play bass, a little bit of guitar, harmonica and I'm starting with the violin!

[The Unknown Soldier]

I've been playing bass guitar for about 7 months now. I'd say I'm transitioning between a beginner and intermediate.

[agora]

I started playing the piano when I was 4, just tinkering around. My dad had a go at teaching me when I was a teenager, but I proved a sulky and irritating pupil.

I also played the descant recorder throughout school and later the clarinet. Dad and I went to Dartington a couple of times, but I found it a bit intense!

Arthritis has put a bit of a stop to music making, but I love to whistle along to the radio and make up tunes in my head. Recently I composed a tune for 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat'. My physio reckons it wouldn't hurt to get a small electronic keyboard. Can anyone recommend a particular model?

[H A R M O N Y]

and teaching myself the piano and what ever isntruments we have in the house I will eventually get my hands on (:

[Fiction]

I've been playing guitar, both electric and acoustic, for 3 years and I also sing.

[Johnny Jackoff]

Guitar, for quite a few years. Can't seem to start a band though, since everybody in Iowa is obsessed with shit metal bands.

[Henry Krinkle]

Guitar, electric and acoustic. I also play some bass guitar whenever I feel like it.

Hardcore Punk, Punk, Metal, Jazz, Jazz-Fusion, Blues are my main styles.

[fajitaheater]

guitar, drums , bass, a bit of keyboard and vocals

[John Ashleigh]

Acoustic guitar and 12 string, harmonica and vocals.

[Poets Muse]

Triangle....Tambourine.....lol

[Poets Muse]

I can do some stuff on a guitar and I am like born to play the drums...whether it is guitar hero or not

[Jack Aknory]

zampona, alpenhorn, glockenspiel, top hat, and the saw (thunda) oh and my thumbs!!!!

tone deaf singer. but consistently tone deaf which makes for interesting harmony.

:]

interested also in setting poems to music


stuff like "robert bly with sitar" kills me. brilliant. stuff.

[Poets Muse]

LOL. For no apparent reason.