What's your favourite musical instrument?

[ik9000]

and the operation

[DarrenParker]

I love to play piano though I am not really good at it but it makes me feel good whenever I play.

[chj]

The versatility of synths is amazing and whilst there probably isn't that connection playing one that you have with other instruments, there's a lot of songs where i find the sound to be quite moving and emotive. I guess you could say they're related to the piano so that would be my second choice.

[Saracen999]

Saracen, check out Gordon Giltap and Martin Taylor's joint album "A matter of time" and Gordon Giltrap's Troubador album. Some great guitar music there.

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Will do. I'm a long time fan of Giltrap in my younger days, going back to Visionary and Perilous Journey albums, but haven't looked at newer stuff for years. They're among the albums I want to digitise from my LP collection. Saw him many moons ago supporting another of my favourite old-time bands, Renaissance. That tour even gets a Wikipedia mention, and I woz there. Jeez it makes me feel old.

[Saracen999]

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I'm of an age where the Yamaha DX7 always makes me smile. They said that keyboard was capable of an infinite number of sounds, yet they somehow always sound like a DX7 and therefore of the 80's that they seemed to dominate.
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I'm of an age where the sort-of related (slightly younger cousin) Yamaha Electone HS-6 still makes me smile .... every time I walk past it, downstairs.

[ik9000]

Will do. I'm a long time fan of Giltrap in my younger days, going back to Visionary and Perilous Journey albums, but haven't looked at newer stuff for years. They're among the albums I want to digitise from my LP collection. Saw him many moons ago supporting another of my favourite old-time bands, Renaissance. That tour even gets a Wikipedia mention, and I woz there. Jeez it makes me feel old.

Bought my amp from Giltrap's shop. Have a signed copy of Troubador as a result. Great chap. Just wish I'd been a bit older and less shy so I could have spoken to him properly. My mum on the other hand had a good old natter. For any guitarists there is a Total Guitar special collection song Tab book that is well worth picking up if you want to learn a suite of his stuff. It's written by GG himself and an extension of the articles he used to write for them in the 1990s.

[ik9000]

I'm of an age where the sort-of related (slightly younger cousin) Yamaha Electone HS-6 still makes me smile .... every time I walk past it, downstairs.

omg you are so lucky to have that! Please tell me it gets used and is not just gathering dust!! Edit just googled it and I'm thinking of something else with one board only. Btw I hope you're not the person using it like this. Granted musical taste is a personal thing but we might have to intervene out of kindness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIBzP0Hy18

Synths enabled so much musical innovation. A whole chunk of late 70s early 80s even through to 90s pop relied on the native sounds from synths. What nowadays people have to try and emulate via digital techniques was then just the analogue chips in those synths and people playing with what sounds they could get out of it. Whether it's Van Halens Jump or Why Can't This Be Love, or things like Vangelis theme for Chariots of Fire, Gary Numann, Depeche Mode, Erasur, Eurythmics, the Terminator theme, etc etc. Like any classic effect once it's no longer produced musicians spend the proceeding years doing their nut trying to replicate it. Just go on any muso forum. They are littered with threads of "How do I get that sound of.... ? " Back then it would be just buy XXX but now it's a whole world of pain. Things come close, but you'll never get a Prophet sound out of a digital synth.

Some good summary here: https://www.musictech.net/guides/ess...-synth-sounds/

[ik9000]

omg you are so lucky to have that! Please tell me it gets used and is not just gathering dust!! Edit just googled it and I'm thinking of something else with one board only. Btw I hope you're not the person using it like this. Granted musical taste is a personal thing but we might have to intervene out of kindness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIBzP0Hy18

Oh I have trashed my youtube. I'm now getting suggestions of lots of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CA4YXXUu3U Not ideal. Seems there is a big Germano-centric love of cheesy organ. It's like blundering into the outtakes of radio 3. The horror. The horror.

(also the size of that thing, you'd need to surrender a bedroom just to fit it in)

[Saracen999]

omg you are so lucky to have that! Please tell me it gets used and is not just gathering dust!! Edit just googled it and I'm thinking of something else with one board only. Btw I hope you're not the person using it like this. Granted musical taste is a personal thing but we might have to intervene out of kindness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIBzP0Hy18

Can't play that as YT wants me to agree to Google T&Cs, and I don't have any form of Google account that I'm willing to associate with this device.

But I suspect I can imagine. And no.

It is pretty much gathering dust at the moment. Can't currently use it.

[ik9000]

Can't play that as YT wants me to agree to Google T&Cs, and I don't have any form of Google account that I'm willing to associate with this device.

But I suspect I can imagine. And no.

It is pretty much gathering dust at the moment. Can't currently use it.

wtf? Are you trying to view it on a phone? Copy link and use firefox browser to open it, in incognito mode it you're really feeling paranoid. You don't need to view it in youtube viewer. It keeps trying to get me to do that too. Annoys me no end!

[Saracen999]

wtf? Are you trying to view it on a phone? Copy link and use firefox browser to open it, in incognito mode it you're really feeling paranoid. You don't need to view it in youtube viewer. It keeps trying to get me to do that too. Annoys me no end!

Nope. Firefox 79.0 on a W10 MS Surface Pro. Tried it again. Same result.

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[Dareos]

I've been trying to decide mine. And y'know what? I can't decide.



But then, I love violin (used to play that too, very badly) be it the Coors or the violin lead in Bach's Brandenburg 2.
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i love the fiddle, as played by Coors Light

in all seriousness tho, any instrument in the right hands, there are are guitar riffs out there that can change my mood, piano intros (Robert Miles - Children, Beverly Craven -Promise me) and solos that send shivers, drumbeats that get me going.

I cant say i have a favourite instrument but there are definitely instruments that fit a scene and they could be considered my favourite for that moment.

[jimborae]

Hand bells as it was the only written form of music I could read as it was all in numbers when I was a child, and this is despite me being a chorister as well at the time. When I was singing I had to memorize it all as couldn't read the music/hymn sheets.

[Saracen999]

omg you are so lucky to have that! Please tell me it gets used and is not just gathering dust!! Edit just googled it and I'm thinking of something else with one board only.

Ahhh, ummm .... Okay. I won't tell you that.

[ik9000]

Ahhh, ummm .... Okay. I won't tell you that.

you kind of already did

It is pretty much gathering dust at the moment. Can't currently use it.

[Saracen999]

Can't believe I did that. Normally, my .... ummm ..... errr..... thingamy .... is so good.

What's the word?


Oh yeah .... memory.