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I realize that most of us hear are trying to learn piano, but I understand some of us have played other instruments as well. I began playing flute with my elementary school band from third grade to sixth grade. I even went one year to band camp, a total disaster(another story). I've thought about trying to learn guitar in addition to piano, but I've been reluctant because I don't want to take away any practice time from piano. Jon
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein Charles Walter W190 Ebony
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As a child in Hawaii, I used to enjoy playing the ukulele, but I don't even have one now - I may purchase one when I go back there next month. I also considered learning classical guitar, but like you, I'm reluctant to take time away from the piano. I tend to be interested in so many things but I've realized I need to scale back and be good at a few things, and not to be a "Jack of all trades". The uke is so easy though, so I don't see that as a threat to my time - it's just for fun anyway.
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sleepingcats: Is the ukulele similar to a dulcimer(sp?)? My brother and I were visiting a music shop in Hampton Bays and the store owner was showing me how easy it was to play this very small odd shaped guitar looking thing. I wonder if they share the same key arrangement? Jon
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I was teaching myself to play the guitar but now as you guys say I need to spend most of my available practice time with piano. My acoustic/electric guitar was collecting dust so I sold it for some pocket cash, and later on when I have more time I will maybe just pick up a regular acoustic guitar again.
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jdsher,
The ukulele is strummed like a guitar and there are several sizes depending on tone. I looked in my music encyclopedia for info on the dulcimer since I'm not familiar with it - it says it is played with wooden hammers, so they are definitely different!
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I took up the French horn in the 5th grade and played in the school band all the way through high school graduation. After that, I didn’t do much of anything musical except plunking on the piano from time to time. In my mid 30’s I discovered I can sing and have been singing unprofessionally (church, weddings, funerals) ever since. I’m hoping to become proficient enough at the piano to make my own accompaniment tracks so I don’t have to depend on someone else to play or be limited to what accompaniment tracks are available commercially.
In the mean time, I’m having a blast learning!
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I played cello for a few years starting in 5th grade. I gave it up because I got tired of schlepping the thing around.
Like most 3rd or 4th graders, I learned to play the recorder. Unlike most kids, I never stopped playing it, and I now have over a dozen ranging in size from a sopranino to a bass. I also have some Hall Crystal Flutes, but I haven't really learned to play them yet.
I really, really, really want a harpsichord. I just missed buying a used one by a few days earlier this year. Someday, I hope to build one.
Someday, I'd also like to get back to the cello.
Someday.
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I started out with a clarinet. I took lessons for about 3 years. I also wanted to try the oboe. My clarinet teacher loaned me one of his, and said that I could try it out for a few weeks, then buy it if I decided to switch to the oboe. After a week of scaring the local wildlife, he got it back. All of my clarinet lessons were pretty much playing duets with the teacher, and that didn't work out at all.
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Classical Guitar. But left it when I picked up piano.
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Tuba and sousaphone in school band. Mostly because I was big enough to carry them.
:b: 6'3", 230 lbs.
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For what its worth, I played trombone through high school and did so very successfully - 1st chair as a freshman! Then I decided I'd be a rock star, and took up bass guitar - so much more music theory presented itself with that, which was a lot of fun. Then life and the Marine Corps got in the way, and I only now find myself back into music (at age 40), having a go at the piano - still love the theory stuff, and feel I've got an advantage over other adult beginners who lack that background (not to mention bass clef, which apparently never left me from my trombone years). Its come in handy. But having said that, why can't I fumble my way through a simple "Anna Magdalena" Bach Minuet with someone watching w/out completely butchering it?
All part of the fun, I suppose! Cheers.
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I played trumpet for years, but haven't picked it up since college. I actually have a degree in classical voice performance, as well as music ed., so I took "methods classes" in all of the families of the orchestra and had to study one from each family for a semester. My choices were french horn, flute, timpani & snare drum, and violin. I can't say I PLAY them, but I can play something ON them, if that makes sense.
Oh yeah, and piano.
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Originally posted by Rich Galassini: I took "methods classes" in all of the families of the orchestra and had to study one from each family for a semester. My choices were french horn, flute, timpani & snare drum, and violin. I can't say I PLAY them, but I can play something ON them, if that makes sense. Yikes, Rich, you're bringing back painful memories! My methods instruments were violin, trombone, bassoon and tuned mallet percussion (vibes was my favorite). I was absolutely horrible at bassoon, violin I was barely passable (though the instructor loved my teaching methods!), percussion was OK, but I could never get up to speed, and the trombone was my absolute best by far, even though I have relatively short arms and seventh position was definitely a s--t--r--e--t--c--h. Believe it or not, I ended up playing first chair (!) trombone in the ad hoc orchestra for secondaries, even though it wasn't my real secondary.
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My Dad was a pretty good clarinet player and his brother played French horn in the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for several years. My older brother played clarinet, older sister played flute & piano, and I played clarinet as well. (Not as well as most, but at least "also") In high school I also picked up alto sax, then baritone sax in the school "swing band". Bari sax was probably my favorite, as it often followed the trombones down in the bass end of the music. Also filled in on occasion with Eb alto and Bb base clarinet. No training at all with double reeds, strings or brass. Not too shabby on recorders, though. Have a good rendition of William Tell available. For a show stopper ... or heart stopper ...(certainly an offering stopper) I can put the soprano recorder in my (left) nostril and play several bars of "Ode to Joy" as a duet against the regularly orificed alto instrument. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been requested to do this.... well, actually I can. It begins with the letter "Z".
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RKVS1: For a show stopper ... or heart stopper ...(certainly an offering stopper) I can put the soprano recorder in my (left) nostril and play several bars of "Ode to Joy" as a duet against the regularly orificed alto instrument. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been requested to do this.... well, actually I can. It begins with the letter "Z". Hmmmmmm.....That reminds me. When's the next get-together? I've got a couple of party tricks I learnt from my sister after her last trip to Thailand.........
How now, brown cow.
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I tried the guitar as a child, but I just couldn't get past the soreness in my fingertips from the strings digging into the left hand. I also tried flute as an adult and lost interest. Currently, my wife plays flute and my younger son plays violin. We're putting some thought into what we can play as a trio.
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Dobro, guitar and some fiddle
Would like to try 5 string banjo and pedal steel.
"The older the fiddle, the sweeter the music"~ Augustus McCrae
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Renauda,
SOrry if this is a stupid question, but what is a Dobro? never heard of it...
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Originally posted by Balparda: Renauda,
SOrry if this is a stupid question, but what is a Dobro? never heard of it...
-Jon http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=dobro
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