Thread: Do you play a musical instrument?

Met a Japanese musician once and he said "I play sex's fun"

Wongo (who gets sillier on Friday)

Totally unrelated, but I used to share a house with an Israeli guy called Sharon. When he first came to Sydney, he was working on building sites and people would say "good on yah mate" when he'd do something for them. For ages, he thought they were saying "good onion mate" and he could never work out why.

Did I mention his name was Sharon?

Taught me a few words in hebrew, unfortunately I cannot mention any of them here.

ibanez 6 string aucoustic.

Vintage 2005 Fender Strat Electric here
Plus some crappy 10w Amp it came with.
Pod XT processor and upgrading to a 120W Amp soon

Learning to be "The Edge" (from U2)

Anyone else here going to the upcoming Brissie concert?

Now I know there are some sad folk out there who have never heard music from a Uke, and even sadder ones who don't even think they are instruments, so at the risk of completely hijacking this thread.

This site http://beatlesite.info/ is absolutely the best learn-to-make an acceptable noise in time with the music site on earth.

Spend $25.00 on an instrument, $45 on a tuner, then log on and learn every Beatle song worth learning!

Cheers,

P (It's been a hard day's night)

Tried to learn, really I did. Tried saxophone, piano, banjo, guitar. Was always hard work, never fun.

Also, in year 2 I failed the audition for the primary school choir. Still scarred these many years later.

Now I play power tools. You should hear my router riffs.

Tex

I thought I was a rhythm guitarist for 20-odd years, until I jumped on the kit and found I was a drummer. Still have a 1976 Gibson Explorer and an early seventies (rough as guts) Pearl kit.

Rock dreams die hard.

Rusty.

Started guitar in '62 but by the late 70's I had had enough of dickwads in bands, done the cofee shop folk thing with my Maton 12 string (still got it) and "retired" to enjoy music without the hassles.

These days, with a son who leaves me for dead on lead (he has the gift), we have our own studio (analogue and digital) and the number of guitars is almost embarrasing, plus piano, keyboard, drums (electric and acoustic) which I'm trying to learn to play. I've teamed up with a long time friend who as a singer in the UK, had success most kids only dream of...........we are now writing and getting ready to record and have a loose "group" made up from friends of ours and of my sons......ages ranging from early 20's to mid 50's makes for some interesting music.

A couple of years ago I was asked to do some woodwork on drums which lead me to this site..........this has now evolved into me just about to produce my first snare shells and hopefully other drums in the future.

One thing I have learnt is that you're never too old to learn.

Studied classical guitar and got to AMEB 8, play an old Yamaha, Maton C75, Rimarez and a Fleta, had a 10 course lute but some bastard stole it, massive instrument, very light and low projection, easier to play than a guitar but a fair bastard to tune 19 strings with pegs.
Taught classical guitar at TAFE for about 2 years but lost my cadence after a car accident in the mid 80's (big smack in the head), now I can only play about 8 notes a second, way down on my better times.
SWMBO and eldest daughter play flute and youngest wants to learn classical guitar.

I'm a bit surprised that so few voted Advanced/Professional. Or maybe people are just being modest - very unusual for musos

All I meant by professional was "have you ever been paid to play?" A lot of the guys that DO get paid to play aren't all that fantastic anyway. I do a paid gig about once a month on average. I used to play every weekend and some week nights but got sick of it. The 1am lug outs were a killer.

Originally Posted by Iain

after a car accident in the mid 80's (big smack in the head)

That explains a bit...

Lost hearing for two years and still left with a tremor which is worse some days than others, on a bad day I'm not game to pick up anything sharp.
Road gave way and vehicle slid down embankment into a tree, head smaked into door upon impact.
Government vehicle and dept wouldn't accept liability even though it was their road which was not finished properly.

a few of the guys here blow the "skin flute" occasionally

Does a tongue drum count as a musical instrument?