What instruments do you play?

What instruments do you play or have played? How long have you played?

I've been playing the piano for 12 years now. Love it.

 

I picked up my first set of drum sticks when I was 9.
Haven't played in close to 10 years now.
I absolutely wore out 3 full sets between the ages of 13 and 20.
Played entirely by ear.
My band instructor was brand new my junior year of high school in 1992. He set a piece of sheet music of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" in front of me. I looked at it, he looked at me, and said "Nevermind."
And that was that.
Not to beat my own drum, but I was very very good.

 

Bass guitar, but not particularly well. It’s more of a way to calm the angry corners of my brain by giving them something to do.

 

Tall bass in 7th grade, 2nd chair in the year-end concert.

My whole life I've wanted to play guitar.

 

Picked up the trombone in 5th grade ... switched to flute for two reasons:
1) A very nice woman could offer private lessons to help the process.
2) It was much easier pedaling a bicycle across the largest U.S. air base overseas with that in a case vs. a trombone.

Picked up the piccolo late in middle school and played that through college. Added a couple of years of piano not long after piccolo.

Ended up with almost as many credit hours in music as in my degree field ... the music minor was a lot of fun.

Probably should have picked up drums, but I am certain that my family would have disowned me.

 

Tuba ... high school and college.

Always remember ... it's not how big your instrument is, but how you play it.

 

None. My wife has the musical talent. Luckily, she passed it to my son. He plays piano and saxophone.

 

In high school and after I played:
- piccolo
- flute
- clarinet (Bflat & Bass)
- oboe
- tenor sax
- trumpet
- trombone
- French horn
- tuba
- percussion
- guitar

The one instrument I wanted to play was piano but my parents said we could't afford a piano for just one kid out of the bunch of us. Now - I sing.

 

Holy shit, HC! That's way beyond impressive!

 

I want to hear the best oboe player from Ojai.

 

Well I didn't play beyond a high school level on most of them - clarinet was my best. I had planned to be a high school band teacher so it seemed like a good idea to learn a lot of instruments. And it let me play in multiple groups - concert band, marching band, brass ensemble, stage band, pit orchestra for school musicals which went a long way to helping me to survive my very miserable teen years. LOL