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Learning a new instrument

  • 17-11-2006 11:21PM
    #1
    bluto63
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    I been playing guitar for 5 years and piano for 2. Now I want to learn a new instrument but I just don't know what. I was thinking a saxaphone but I don't have the best set of lungs, so that might limit out all wind instruments. I would try a tin whistle first, just to see if I can.

    But does anyone have any suggestions for a new musical instrument to play?


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  • #2
    John
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    Something percussiony like drums, marimba or vibraphone?


  • #3
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I'd pick a xylaphone over a marimba, which I was thinking of getting.


  • #4
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Go for it. I like marimbas, hence the suggestion. What about a vibraphone? It's like a xylophone only bigger and sexier!


  • #5
    bluto63
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    Yea I'll go have a look at some soon. I'd say in the end it'll come down to which is the cheapest(worst way to pick, I know, but I'm broke)


  • #6
    BossArky
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    I play piano, guitar and am a lapsed tenor saxophonist.

    Saxophone was great to play in a marching and concert band, but I would personally find it rather boring outside of those situations and much perfer the guitar and piano.

    Saxophones are brittle and expensive. You will go through many many reeds and they break at critical moments if you are not very careful, i.e. snagging one on your sleeve, or someone bumping into you whilst you are playing.

    I would equate the feeling of playing the saxophone to that of rubbing two large-ish stones together, or scratching ones fingers down a blackboard... uuuuugggggghhhhhhh :eek: That is how if felt to me.

    I had a good time with it though ;)


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  • #7
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    The tin whistle is easy enough to pick up and get good at quite quickly and from there it'd be much easier to move onto other winds

    They also cost next to nothing, but don't get one of thoses cheapo tourist ones, they are rarely pitch perfect, I've got a "Generation", which i'm very happy with and is reasonably reasonable pricewise which i'd recommend.


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