does anyone play any instrument?

[tank you]

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just curious. i play the guitar.

 

[JimiThing]

I played the trumpet up through part of HS.
I'm trying to teach myself how to play the guitar, but since I dont know how to play, I'm not doing a very good job.*
I like bluegrass, newgrass, and a lot of the off shoots there of (ie String Cheese Incident), so I'd like to learn how to play banjo some day as well, though I'm pretty sure that would guarantee I never get laid again.

(*Shamelessly paraphrased from Mitch Hedberg)

 

[Babooshka]

i play the skin-flute.

 

[crazy_cavalier]

Violin here. They say it's the devil's instrument, because the violin makes such dark, haunting, and mysteriously beautiful music.

But I'm no devil. Or am I?? 😉

 

[dr.z]

Alto Sax here.

 

[SitraAchra]

i play the cello, so i just put violin for simplicity

 

[nicholonious]

Alto Sax here.

Nice. Another sax here, one sexy instrument!

 

[Sarikate]

Viola is my main instrument...have played it for 18 years! Also violin.

 

[tank you]

Viola is my main instrument...have played it for 18 years! Also violin.

is there a major difference between the two? viola is bigger than violin and smaller than cello right?

 

[disheveled_dave]

You should have put steeldrums on the poll!

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

Excuse me, but where are cello, oboe, and bassoon?

I play oboe and violin, but I can't play Bach's concerto for oboe and violin in C minor all by myself!

 

[priyanka]

wtf, why isn't tabla an option? Man I can't imagine music without the beats of tabla..
Dha dhin dhin dha,
dha dhin dhin dha
dha tin tin dha
(te te) dhin dhin dha

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

is there a major difference between the two? viola is bigger than violin and smaller than cello right?

All are in the violin family. The viola is the hardest to play because it requires the violin hand-arm position, but has longer strings, and so is harder to manipulate. The viola also has the least power, which is the reason why it is not favored by composers for virtuoso music.

The violin is the smallest of the three and the highest. A great deal of virtuoso music was written for it.

The cello is built like the violin but has a squarer bow, deeper ribs, and a shorter tail (is that the right term?). It's stronger than the viola (although it's deeper) because its much larger cavity allows greater resonance. It, too, has a lot of virtuoso music written for it, but much less so than for the violin.

All violins are tuned in 5ths.

The double-bass is not a violin. It is a hybrid between the violin and the viol. You can see this in several ways: the bow is shaped very differently and is sometimes bowed underhanded (like the viol), the shoulders are not rounded as in the violins, but are rather sloping downward. And it is tuned in 4ths.

There are also some other instruments that look a lot like the violins, such as the viola de gamba, which differ in subtle ways. The viola de gamba looks very much like a cello, but has shallower ribs (I think?) and has a flat back instead of the rounded back of the violins.

 

[Sarikate]

Yeah, J, the viola is slightly larger and is a fifth lower than a violin. ADGC rather than EADG - octave higher than a cello.

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

Yeah, J, the viola is slightly larger and is a fifth lower than a violin. ADGC rather than EADG - octave higher than a cello.

In my experience, violists are usually passionate and defensive about their instrument, since it gets beaten up so much by the other strings and even the winds.

Sarikate: have you seen any of the new oddly-shaped stringed instruments. I saw this guy playing a viola that had like two extra lobes coming out of it! One on the bottom left corner, the other on the upper right. It was weird to look at. And the f-holes were messed up too (one in each lobe) I don't know why they chose that shape, though.

 

[subtle1epiphany]

hmmm...no drummers...

 

[Karina]

just curious. i play the guitar.

I play the guitar too 😀

 

[Kazema]

Didn't know what to vote for, I play violin, piano, and guitar. Used to play alto sax but not since high school have I touched one.

 

[saffronrain]

wtf, why isn't tabla an option? Man I can't imagine music without the beats of tabla..
Dha dhin dhin dha,
dha dhin dhin dha
dha tin tin dha
(te te) dhin dhin dha

i play the harmonium. and that wasn't an option either. 🙁

 

[Sarikate]

Yeah, Merc, one of my fellow symphonists plays on one of those space-age violas. They are designed to maximize the volume of the instrument without increasing its length - so they add width instead, and the tone is more deep and "viola-like" as a result, without having to strain your arm to accommodate for the extra length a normal viola would require.

 

[myodana]

uh, you left off all of the rest of the strings. i play the harp.

 

[musiclink213]

Not sure what to vote for. I've played piano for a long long time, 15 years I think, maybe 16, but I also play flute, saxophone, guitar, and I played oboe in high school except I never owned one so I had to rent one, and once I got out of school, I had no reason to rent it anymore, so I had to stop. One of these days, I'll save enough money to get an oboe. I also took a string class for a year in which I learned to play viola, only I don't play anymore because I don't have one of those either.

The sad thing is, I still play piano, flute, sax, and guitar. Piano less while I"m in school since there isn't one I could use so I need to go home, flute and sax and guitar more since I have them in my room.

 

[sunny123]

wtf, why isn't tabla an option? Man I can't imagine music without the beats of tabla..
Dha dhin dhin dha,
dha dhin dhin dha
dha tin tin dha
(te te) dhin dhin dha

I'm with you on this Priyanka.

I play the sitar. Dang goras always making their Western instruments come first.

 

[wetlightning]

piano here, 13 years and counting --i didn't see many other pianists??

you guys play exotic instruments 🙂

 

[Brain]

I play sax and bassoon. I was a very serious about it back in high school. I went to many honor bands, including national one year.

 

[tigress]

I played cello, violin, and classical guitar when I was younger, but I haven't really played in years. What I really want to do is learn to play either sax or clarinet, but first I need to save up to buy one and get lessons. I grew up in a pretty musical family; my father plays guitar all the time, and my brother plays guitar, trumpet, probably some other things. My cousin is a super musician, sort of a prodigy. He can just listen to a piece of music and play it on just about any instrument (he was peforming blues/jazz on the piano when he was 10). He's a year younger than me, and then my brother is a year younger than he is, so the three of us called ourselves a band when we were kids and recorded bad songs on my father's four track. Ah, those were the days 🙂

 

[cosmo]

I started college out as a percussion major, then quickly burned out. I also can play the clarinet, flute, trumpet and a little piano (though I'm learning more piano). In percussion I really loved the xylophone and marimba, though I liked beating the heck out of a bass drum, too.

 

[Drdrums]

hmmm...no drummers...

Jazz drummer here, at Eastman School of Music. I have played percussion in classical ensembles, but pretty much exclusively now play drum set. Jazz is my passion, but I play alot of different stuff. I am trying to figure out how I'll be able to find time/a place to play in med school. I am thinking about getting electronic drums that I can keep in my room and plug into headphones so it won't disturb neighbors.

 

[wdarli]

cello here....I actually received my Bachelor's in music performance while taking the pre-reqs for med school 😀

 

[medstylee]

cello here....I actually received my Bachelor's in music performance while taking the pre-reqs for med school 😀

rock on! i started college as a cello performance and music composition major. didn't actually make it to the point where i got my bm degree - just didn't have enough time for the practicing. oh well.

 

[evajaclynn]

used to play the alto sax. 🙂

 

[epitomedoc]

I play clarinet and piano...or at least I did in college. I haven't practiced either since I graduated. I would like to say I'll start back up in med school...but how realistic is that? 🙁

 

[tank you]

I'm with you on this Priyanka.

I play the sitar. Dang goras always making their Western instruments come first.

sitar is almost same as guitar, and im desi.

 

[tank you]

come on all u musicians, vote.

 

[sunny123]

sitar is almost same as guitar, and im desi.

You have got to be kidding. Yes the only part that is the same between the two is that you strum the instruments. In a sitar you can move the frets. You can't do that in a guitar. You can bend the strings aka "meend" ina sitar, you can't in a guitar. You have microtones in a sitar (the sympathetic strings below the main strings), you don't have that in a guitar. Same goes with the sarod and surbahar.

You should have polled something like "all stringed instruments", not just a guitar. If you still feel the same way, then I'm sorry, but you've become gorafied.

 

[LadyJubilee8_18]

uh, you left off all of the rest of the strings. i play the harp.

What about the sax?? I play alto sax. Thats a major one too man, whats up??

 

[BlinkyCat]

violin! (i'm asian, are you guys surprised?)

 

[Pianoboe01]

Piano and oboe here.

 

[SitraAchra]

cello here....I actually received my Bachelor's in music performance while taking the pre-reqs for med school 😀

holla!

 

[SitraAchra]

rock on! i started college as a cello performance and music composition major. didn't actually make it to the point where i got my bm degree - just didn't have enough time for the practicing. oh well.

good to know there are a few cellists around 😀

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

Piano and oboe here.

Yes! A fellow oboist. Favorite oboe piece?

 

[Loco Loki]

I like to toot my own horn now and then.

Trumpet reporting. Too bad I'm not any good at it, heh...

 

[AStudent]

Not just one, many.

 

[Pianoboe01]

Yes! A fellow oboist. Favorite oboe piece?

Umm... probably the Strauss Concerto, maybe the Flower Clock. You?

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

Umm... probably the Strauss Concerto, maybe the Flower Clock. You?

Pretty much all the Vivaldi and Albinoni concertos. And the Marcello, Haydn (Kozeluch), and Mozart concertos. Morceau de salon by Kalliwoda. And Capriccio by Ponchielli, which is a lovely piece.

Also, have you heard the concerto by Pasculli? Devilishly hard.

 

[melovet]

Used to play the violin and clarinet, but now pretty much stick to the alto sax.

 

[stopper10]

Any other tuba players in the house???

Holla Back!

 

[BerlinNeuro]

Lots of strings and woods here. Not a lot of brass. I've played trombone for 14 years. Nothing like good jazz!! I never really liked the whole marching band crap back in HS though.

I also play the piano.

 

[tank you]

bump

 

[Califlower]

Violin and Piano. Dabbled in the viola and clarinet. I know the viola story was already discussed ad nauseum, but from what I understand, a good viola player can get a job anywhere -- violists are in demand! So if medicine doesn't work out... 😱