Do you play a musical instrument?

[Grey M@a]

love reading through these threads, only three of us who play bass, we are a dying breed I tell you I reckon there is about 40 guitar players to every single bass player

[0iD]

Bass players of the world unite!

Was only because I was too damned lazy to learn guitar

[Elmo]

violin - grade 7 - play trad. scottish ceilidhmusic and some classical
flute - grade 5 - just play whatever i can find, anything from theme tunes to classical

When i was in school i used to dabble with cello, dbl bass and piccolo too

[Rob]

Played guitar since I was 18 (35 now).

Also didge, bodhran, and some percussion.

Oh, and a very slinky Overton 'Low D' (You irish boys'll know that one!) thanks to a heavy Davy Spillane influence

[Scientist]

Guitar for around 4 years now, am thinking of taking up piano aswell though

[Bunjiweb]

Drums... for about 12 years now

Ben

[Rave]

I played the violin from the age of three. Got to about grade 4(?) then switched to the viola when I was 12 which I took to grade 6. I was never really going to be a great player so I stopped having lessons after a while, just played in the school orchestra (there's always space for a viola player).

Played the recorder at primary school and also joined a Saturday recorder group where I played descant, treble and tenor but ended up doing mostly bass. Gave up when I got to secondary school.

Learnt the piano as a kid, did grade 2, but I'm a truly poor piano player, I don't have anything like enough co-ordination between my two hands.

Finally I played clarinet for a few years at secondary school, got to grade 4 IIRC, only reason I carried on for so long was that I liked chatting to my teacher who was a composer and studio engineer etc..

Oh, and I passed my grade 5 theory without any major difficulty, my school made me do it for some reason when I was taking my music GCSE (in which I got a B).

I haven't played anything seriously for a long time now.

Rich :¬)

[paradidle]

Drums... for about 12 years now

Ben

cool what kit u use?

[Blub2k]

used to play Double bass then went on to guitar and have not played that for a few years now. Was looking at some nice Taylor acoustics really mmmmmm nice.

[turkster]

Not exactly sure yet where im playing yet. Thought you might be able to give me some ideas? Sounds like a good festival. Would be very interested if i wasnt at wimbledon that weekend.

You want to get gigs?
Theres so many places in Cork its difficult to say.

Yeah the festival should be interesting . There's not a huge amount of Irish music but its great fun nonetheless.

[Insanity]

I'm doing Grade 5 Alto Sax just before Christmas. I'm so scared...

Three words:
I. Hate. Scales.

I suppose you are all fully grown people who aren't continually pestered by their music teachers to learn Eb Minor. Lucky sods.

[Tifosi]

Alto sax for around 7 years wish I had picked trumpet tho :S

[Elmo]

I'm doing Grade 5 Alto Sax just before Christmas. I'm so scared...

Three words:
I. Hate. Scales.

I suppose you are all fully grown people who aren't continually pestered by their music teachers to learn Eb Minor. Lucky sods.

scales do suck, and seem totllally pointless, but they do come in very handy sometimes - just sometimes

[Insanity]

Yeah...I suppose so...

Hey, Actapollo, why'd you give up Sax? It's such a cool instument.
It gets all the funkiest material.

I used to play the clarinet, but the Sax took priority practise-wise. I'm trying to learn the Guitar and Piano, but I'm finding it difficult. I'd love to learn the violin, too. And the flute...

[Shogun]

Scales do kinda help, so that you know which notes are flat or sharp in a piece

[phykell]

Piano, in fact, this one:

http://www.phykell.co.uk/199700/After_Front.jpg