What musical instrument do/did you play?

[SeattleGirl]

I used to play the violin. Been a long time, though, but lately I've been thinking of taking lessons again, or learning to play another instrument, maybe the guitar.

How about you?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Used to play the piano when I was a kid.

I'd like to start playing again. :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

3. SA!!!!

I haven't played violin since junior high, so it's been a FEW years! :loveya:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Since junior high?

So 20 years ago? ;)

[SeattleGirl]

5. Ha! I wish!

:)

[FuzzySlippers]

2. I toot a flute now and then.

[SeattleGirl]

6. One of my sisters played the flute.

When she was in high school, the band got to go march in the Disneyland Main Street Parade.

[FuzzySlippers]

7. I hated the freakin' marching band

although I guess it would have cool to march at Disneyland. The closest we got to that was the Minnesota State Fair. Well, at least we got out of school for the day.

[SeattleGirl]

10. My sister had a blast there.

She also liked being in the marching band in general.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

11. I loved marching band :)

We marched at Universal Studios Orlando in February 1998. It was during the same time that Adam Sandler was filming Waterboy. The execs came on our chartered buses and told us that if we see him we were not to talk to him. Just for telling us that, we said we were going to do it anyway.
They treated us like shit - so we treated them like shit back. I was in the front saying how much I could not wait to go on "The Tower of Terror" and all these other Disney rides - I was very sarcastic when I said it to the point that people thought I was serious . The lady was turning red yelling at us "That is Disney we are Universal" . That was my point to piss her off ;) She looked like she wanted to shit herself - I kept saying Disney rides and she corrected us every time. She did'nt get our point. We messed with her big time. She it took it too seriously. I was the ringleader. I am pretty sure she wanted me kicked out of Universal Studios but nope :)

[SeattleGirl]

12. You bad girl!

:rofl:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. That trip was a lot of fun :) I think I was banned from Universal and Epcot Center for life LOL.

I really miss the people that I hung out with during that trip. I found ways to keep everything fun during the entire trip. Call me crazy but I screamed and caused a scene on the ET Ride just for the fun of it LOL.

This was back when disposable cameras were the craze (OMG I had TONS of those) and we were waiting in line to get on the Jaws (oooh I can see the shark coming riding on a track in the water but I am going to scream anyways like an idiot because everyone else is ride) and I was taking a picture - so I ducked under a pole to get a better angle. I looked and noticed that I was in front of my friends by 200+ people. I just stood there on the other side of the pole and my friends had'nt noticed yet - I kept talking to them like everything was normal. I told them that I fronted them by 200+ people. The lines were 30-45 minute long waiting periods and we had to get back to the busses and we wanted to get on EVERYTHING. I pretended something was wrong with my camera to get them ahead as well. So I was like "Help me with my camera? Its broke!" and one by one each friend pretended to help me until we were all on the same side. I looked behind me and there was an older man behind me with a serious "Theseyoungkidstodayhavenohometraining" look and he smiled and excused it.

Earlier I remember us being in the Terminator 2 ride and the way the actress was talking we started to imitate her. I remember he saying "YEAHHHH Alrighty and OHKAYYYY" a lot like a old valley girl having a slow high from Valium. She sounded spaced out. So it was my job to imitate her. ;) My friends and I started talking real loud saying things like "This ride is sooo OHKAYYYYYYYY" and its so "ALRIGGHHHHHHT" - exactly the way she said it. We had everyone in the room cracking up. The actress did not like that at all. She was giving us the meanest look ever. Come on we were high school kids having some fun !

The day before we went to the Epcot Center and I don't know if they still have it but they had people on roller blades with broom and dustpans to clean up. We kept dropping popcorn on purpose to see if they came - and they did ! And out of no where , a security guy tells us "we are watching you and we would like you to stop dropping trash on purpose" - This was preMatrix . Did we stop NO !!!!!

I have'nt been to Orlando since but I hope the next time will be as fun as the time in 1998 :)

[SeattleGirl]

19. I went to Universal Studios in LA about 10 years ago.

I remember going through the set of Backdraft. It was really cool -- or should I say, really hot!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. I've played the clarinet for 16 years now.

But you can always find me in front of my keyboard playing with Synths and midis on my computer :)

[SeattleGirl]

9. I can pick out a few tunes (badly) on the piano.

That's another instrument I'd love to learn to play.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

15. I talk myself while I was living in Germany :)

I had nothing else to do :)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

31. Piano is so awesome if you can get it.

If you have a bad day on it, you have a strong urge to knock it off a five-story building. Most frustrating instrument EVER. :P

[last_texas_dem]

14. I was a "percussionist"

I was competent at best at drums and not quite competent at the xylophone and the other mallet instruments! I haven't really played either in several years, but played them for six years in junior high/high school. Although in retrospect I wish I had taken things more seriously, the truth is that I mostly stayed in band to be able to goof off and have fun with my friends, most of whom were band nerds. I played the cymbals in the marching band; those aren't challenging but are probably one of the most fun instruments to march with. Although if you screw up on them, you really stick out like a sore thumb!

[SeattleGirl]

16. Cymbals are cool!

And you're right -- it you mess up, everybody knows!

[Roon]

24. I was stuck playing the cymbals in High School

The Seniors would try to take them away from me so they can play them for the Star Spangled Banner. I was like, "No way!"...that is the funnest song to play them!

[mcscajun]

26. I'm learning to play the Bodhrán

which is an Irish hand drum. If you've ever seen the Chieftains or Cherish the Ladies, then you've seen and heard this drum in action.

http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran

[enigmatic]

17. guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, harmonica, piano (badly)

I'm much more a "feel" player than anything else; I can read a chord chart fine, but a score is like Chinese writing to me...

[SeattleGirl]

18. Wow!

That's cool that you play a number of instruments.

I'm more of a "feel" player too, though I can (or at least COULD) read music. I think for me, it's a combination of both feel and read.

[TnDem]

20. Bass guitar...

Back in the 80's...I actually played lived in front of a crowd a few times. It was a blast.

[Vidar]

21. Piano & sax.

[Orsino]

22. Guitar, sort of, and bass, even more sort of.

Took piano when I was little, but it didn't take.

[Roon]

23. I played drums

All kinds of drums!

[rug]

25. I played the triangle in kindergarten. Nothing since.

[crim son]

27. I taught myself the basic chords on the guitar when I was a teenager

but now the only thing I remember is how to tune it. Otherwise I play piano, somewhat.

[Chan790]

28. Trombone and percussion.

The trombone was an exercise in torture but it helped me discover something...I'm almost-completely tone-deaf.

Percussion doesn't pose that problem. I prefer to screech my lungs out on punk and hardcore in front of 3 or 4 peeps who can't play. Somehow our respective lack of any talent make it work.

[NightWatcher]

29. I started with the trumpet in highschool (marching band geek)

but I ended up getting pretty good at the french horn and playing in orchestra. I took second chair in highschool regional orchestra my junior year.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

30. Piano, saxophone (tenor and bari), clarinet.

I'm quite good at clarinet, passable at piano and getting better all the time, and getting there in sax.

I wanna play guitar someday, too, and a bowed stringer like violin or viola. Screwing around on a trumpet would be entertaining, as well.

I just like fooling around with instruments, really. If I like it well enough, I stick to it. :D

Funny thing is, my dad is almost tone deaf and has zippo understanding of the most basic musical concepts, and my mom is only marginally more knowledgable. I'm musical, my paternal grandmother is, two of my paternal aunts are, and my cousins both paternal and maternal are competent. The reason why I'm allowed to fuck around with stuff is because my parents at least appreciate music, even if 99% of it goes right over their heads.

[Left Is Write]

32. I can play the piano a little. I'd love to take lessons again.

[Omphaloskepsis]

33. Does GarageBand and Reason count?

In high school I fucked around with the trumpet.

[Cabcere]

34. In chronological order (if I can remember correctly, lol)...

- toy piano as a toddler (one of the Fisher-Price ones with about ten different-colored keys, lol)
- recorder (4th grade)
- piano lessons (5th-6th grade; resumed as a college sophomore/junior)
- flute (7th-12th grade; my main instrument)
- trumpet (10th-12th grade; mostly in jazz band and it was a blast! :) I also marched trumpet in 11th grade, though, which was cool.)
- mellophone (marching band, 12th grade)
- guitar (started messing around with it freshman year of college, never really got very far with it though)
- bass guitar (sophomore year of college, never took formal lessons but I mess around with it from time to time and it's fun! :))

I :loveya: music.

[michreject]

35. Drummer

Started off in grade school playing Trombone, switched to percussion and haven't been the same since.

Now that I'm retired, I'm going to learn how to play bagpipes.

[MsKandice01]

36. I played the piano for 13 years...

You wouldn't know it now though if you heard me play these days. I also played the recorder as a youngin, played the clarinet (and bass clarinet) as a band geek and taught myself how to play the flute.

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. I haven't touched a piano in years

Dunno if you can just pick those things up again.

No, not literally. I couldn't pick up a piano before. :P

Still play guitar, though, and a little bit of bass, drums and harmonica. I'd really love to learn to play blues harp.

I also play the original musical instrument:

[ghostsofgiants]

38. I play bass...and a pretty mean kazoo.

[grannylib]

39. Played piano as a kid; also played clarinet for a year in band, but hated it.

Wanted to play the flute but they had too many already so they told me my mouth was shaped wrong and that I'd never be able to play the flute but I'd be perfect for clarinet. Bastards.
So I tried it and hated it and quit.
20 years later my dad found me a really nice Gemeinhardt flute at auction and bought it for me for Christmas, and I've been playing it ever since, thank you very much...

Bastards.

[Bicoastal]

40. Saxhophone, clarinet, flute, guitar, and piano.

And yes, I'm a professional. :)

[SPKrazy]

41. Piano and Cello When I was young...

then the clarinet in Jr. High (also bass clarinet) edit

I've played around with a guitar, but I've not really done a lot with it.

I have thoughts about learning more on the guitar myself. I want a different one than I have right now.

Music is in a way spiritual to me. I find it at least meditative to play something.

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

42. Bassoon, flute, piccolo and now

handbells in choir.

:)