What instruments do you play?

Not a clue what that means.

 

Doesn't mean anything. Oboe is a funny word and so is the town of Ojai. I'm in that kind of mood today.

 

You think oboe sounds funny you should try playing one.

 

I'll leave it to the oboe pro's.

 

I still stand by my previous statement!

Well, it sounds like you were too busy in high school to get into much trouble.

 

Well .... it WAS the seventies ...

 

My cousin's daughter played oboe recently at Notre Dame. For football and hockey games, saxophone. Both reed instruments, IIRC, but my understanding was the oboe was a toughie.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most all reed instruments (woodwinds, I suppose) pretty sensitive? Tuba, heck it was perfect for me. Just blow as much hot air in there as often as possible LOL.

 

Saxophone is a single reed instrument - the reed across a hard mouthpiece. The oboe (and bassoon) are double reed instruments which means it's 2 reeds 'back to back' and you play directly on both reeds - no mouthpiece.

 

I took piano lessons for eight years, elementary through high school. I rarely practiced. I think the only reason I continued so long was because my mom had learned from my teacher's mom, and each lesson was only $5. It was also a great babysitter, since the teacher was usually hours behind anyone's appointment time. I made one of my best friends waiting for those lessons. She actually had talent!

I also followed in my mom's footsteps and pretended to play the flute in middle school, because it seemed easier to take band and orchestra than "Shop." (Wood, metal, I dunno. It was scary!) I started violin in the spring semester, and continued for four years. Though I never developed a practice habit -- hi, Allen Iverson! -- I have played violin at Carnegie Hall.

I wanted to be that person who could sit down at a piano and play pop music. I doubt that's ever going to happen.

 

I can play pretty much any instrument with an even number of strings, which excludes banjo (5) and dulcimer (11). Recently started working on a lap steel.

my current guitar lineup:

— Telecaster electric, black
— 1971 Martin D-18
— 2017 Martin D-16, my primary instrument
— Epiphone DR212 12-string

Wish list: an early ‘60s Gibson ES-335.

 

Quack. Funny enough, there were thoughts of learning oboe ... but for that to, um, pay off, you need the attention of a music school. Then, a LOT of practice and more budget than one might think (those double reeds make the cost of reeds for clarinet, A-sax and T-sax look cheap by comparison).

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And ... I technically got to play some percussion. One year, my school got fairly deep in the women's NCAAs and they wanted to play some glockenspiel on some stand pieces. Problem was, I was also the entire piccolo section. Pep band director let me choose a preference on piece-by-piece basis ... at least the piano background helped with percussion.