Poll: Musical instruments

[teqrevisited]

I can play the keyboard. Used to play the piano too but there came a time when we just didn't have the space for it.

Learning to play Firth of Fifth at the moment. Wish I could do it on something other than a synth though, for the proper sound.

 

[ms_sunlight]

I play whistle, mostly Scottish and Irish traditional music. I'm an enthusiastic amateur.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

As for me, up until a few months ago I had been playing piano for 9 years. I got sick of the plinkety-plink sound of my shitty little upright and my dwindling ability to but my heart and soul into a piece, and realized that my musical interests had shifted from classical music to grunge and funk, so I started taking bass lessons.

Another piano/bass person here. I took classical piano lessons for about 13 years and have been playing for almost 30 years now, and then I picked up the bass at some point and am entirely self-taught with that, and that's been about ten years with that. The past few years have been kind of on and off, more off than on lately, especially without people to play with to motivate me, but I still have both of them around and take care of them and make sure I haven't completely forgotten what I'm doing so I can get back into it more regularly when I figure out exactly what it is I do want to do.

 

[Chalacachaca]

Guitar, I try to play lots of genres and never sticking in the same stuff. I learned power chords in a class I took when I was 14 and the rest I learned it on my own, although I cannot read music.

 

[Jak23]

Other, my favorite is the flute.

 

[anthony87]

I've got a Guitar but I've yet to learn how to play it properly. I just can't seem to stick when I'm trying to get the hang of chords and shit but goddammit I will learn to play that thing!!!

 

[thelittleman66]

I used to play guitar, but I wasn't very good. Then I heard a song called Orion, then I picked up the bass. I'm much better with the bass.

 

[Macabre9037]

I chose other as my favorite to play is the mandolin, but I also play the guitar, bass guitar, harmonica and piano, though I'm not particularly skilled at piano.

 

[Nouw]

I can play the Clarinet well for my age. I've been playing it for 3 years now. I can also play the Melodica and Piano but only with one hand at a time. I feel guilty about quitting piano. I want to play songs like Around the World but I can't because I'm restricted to one hand. And on a whim, I can also play the Peruvian Wolfwhistle and Windchime Whistle thing.

 

[Viper1265]

I played Tenor saxophone through middle and high school, and I took piano lessons for a few years though I cant say I'm all that good. On my trip to china this summer I picked up a kind of Chinese flute called a 葫芦丝(húlús&#299 and I find it quite fun to play, though that probably stems from the fact that its nice and small so I can play it right at my computer desk.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Piano and Trumpet, although I'm way better at Piano, as I've been playing it for 9 years - 2 years more than the Trumpet, and because I had a restrictive couple of years of Trumpet due to braces.

Piano, though, I adore. It gives me so much joy to be able to play some of the beautiful music written for the instrument.

In fact, I'm the opposite to you OP, as my love for the piano has been waxing, rather than waning, over the past couple of years. I changed teacher a couple years back, and I got massively into Chopin from learning his Nocturne in F-Minor, Op. 55 - to the extent that I now have the majority of the pieces he ever wrote on my iPod, often with multiple recordings of each piece. What I love about Chopin is that in nearly every piece there is at least one moment of breath-taking sublimity, which often literally makes me stop what I'm doing through sheer ecstatic catharsis. On top of this, with Chopin you feel that it's never difficult for the sake of being difficult - or for the sake of showing off - like with, for example, Liszt (not to say that I dislike Liszt), but because it's exactly how he felt the piece should sound. That and his obsessive perfectionism is probably what led to him being famously quoted as one of the three composers who never wrote a bad piece, along with Beethoven and Bach; a statement that I whole-heartedly endorse.

Ugh, sorry, I apologise for the massive fanboy rant.

Anyway, I'm currently learning a movement of his first Piano Concerto (The 'easy' one, Mvt. 2, in my opinion one of the most incredibly written and...well, I've run out of synonyms for beautiful, but I was gonna end with 'ever'), which I hope to play in January.

Wish me luck guys...

 

[Dastardly]

So...yeah. How about you guys?

All of them. I'm a band director, and a bit of an over-achiever, so I figure I can't teach something any better than I can play it. So anything from bassoon to bass guitar, I play it.

 

[feebstalicious93]

i taught myself guitar and piano, i can read music a little bit, but i mostly go by ear. i took drum lessons as a kid, so i picked that one.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Right now I only have an Ocarina, though I rarely play any instruments nowdays because my mom yells her lungs out at me if I make any sort of noise ever.

My old flutes are collecting dust, forever alone in some closet.

I can play guitar as well, though and a teensy tiny bit of self-taught piano.

 

[Blunderboy]

I used to play Bass, but it's under my bed collecting dust at the moment.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Keyboard, but I really want to learn guitar. My problem is I have long slender fingers (girly hands) and I'm not sure they are the type that could handle a guitar. They are however really good for keyboards.