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What musical instrument would you love to play?

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    #62
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,560 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    The banjo, only to be able to play like the boys in deliverance


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    #63
    CelticRambler
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    endacl wrote: »
    If your really interested I can put you in touch with a few players.

    FWIW, anyone interested in dipping a toe in water full of strange (and not so strange) stringed and reed instruments should treat themselves to a visit to Le Son Continu in central France (where I do my babysitting ;)) The centrepiece of the festival is an instrument-makers' fair, where you are encouraged to try just about everything on display on the 120-ish stands. Spend nine hours trying to squeeze a tune out of whatever stick or bag you like, then spend the rest of the night listening to how it should sound! 7€ a day in pre-Corona times, a day being 20 hours (10am - 6am) - and worth every cent: how often will you get to mess around on an instrument worth five figures? :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihxTG0Pyhk


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    #64
    meggiemegmeg
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    I’d love to be able to play a church organ. I love the drama of an organ. It’s not very portable for bringing to parties though....


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    #65
    Bobblehats
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    I wanna be the bad boy on bass


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    #66
    Esel
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    Bobblehats wrote: »
    I wanna be the bad boy on bass
    What do you call a beautiful woman on a bass player's arm?



















    A tattoo.


    Badum tish

    Not your ornery onager



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    #67
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Trish? I only bummed her last night


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    #68
    Gorteen
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    Uileann pipes


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    #69
    JustAThought
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    CelticRambler wrote: »
    FWIW, anyone interested in dipping a toe in water full of strange (and not so strange) stringed and reed instruments should treat themselves to a visit to Le Son Continu in central France (where I do my babysitting ;)) The centrepiece of the festival is an instrument-makers' fair, where you are encouraged to try just about everything on display on the 120-ish stands. Spend nine hours trying to squeeze a tune out of whatever stick or bag you like, then spend the rest of the night listening to how it should sound! 7€ a day in pre-Corona times, a day being 20 hours (10am - 6am) - and worth every cent: how often will you get to mess around on an instrument worth five figures? :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihxTG0Pyhk

    Looks fabulous - also quite virtuous and sober! All those wafer thin frenchwomen and not an oompa loompa in sight!

    Do you get to babysit that chateaux :0
    Where is the festival based ? What airport!!!


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    #70
    igCorcaigh
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    Joined a brass band when I was twelve.

    Got to play the cornet, on "seconds".

    That was the highlight of my musical career.


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    #71
    igCorcaigh
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    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    Learned the violin as a kid
    Wish I'd learned something else.

    You never learned anything else?


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    #72
    bnt
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    I play bass plus some iffy guitar & keyboards, but I really wish I could learn the drums too. This is what comes from listening to too much Rush, you start wanting to play all the instruments. I ain't got much rhythm, though.

    PS: what, no-one wants to learn the Highland Bagpipes? Smart move: I learned in my late teens and was in a pipe band for a year, but it's a horrible instrument. It puts you through the wringer for results that really aren't worth the effort, and you have to go to some extraordinary finger contortions to give the music some life. Avoid.

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    #73
    Bobblehats
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    fryup wrote: »
    or the harmonica handy size carry in your pocket, tried to learn it but it's damn hard

    It ain’t hard. Gotta get deep down and feel it. Chicken wing stamp your foot... come on now!


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    #74
    Rothko
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    Saxophone. Being able to play like someone like Coltrane would be unbelievable.


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    #75
    Gaspode
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    As the guitarist in 2 bands Id love to be able to play guitar. Some day.....


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    #76
    The Mighty Quinn
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    Can play guitar adequately. Okay at rhythm and poor enough with lead.

    Have considered playing cheating banjo.. guitjo or banjitar. A six string banjo tunes like a guitar.

    New sounds, no new chord shapes to learn :)


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    #77
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Anything really. My Father and sister are professional musicians and whenever I watch them play I’m in awe. My Dad plays mandolin, guitar and a bit of violin and piano. I did play cello for a few years when I was younger but was never great at it.


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    #78
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭trashcan


    The Mighty Quinn wrote: »
    Can play guitar adequately. Okay at rhythm and poor enough with lead.

    Have considered playing cheating banjo.. guitjo or banjitar. A six string banjo tunes like a guitar.
    New sounds, no new chord shapes to learn :)

    That sounds about similar to me. I can play an ok rhythm guitar, not great with barre chords so I play mainly open, or half barre. I was toying with getting a ukulele, then I discovered the gitelele. Uke size, but with six strings so same chord shapes, but a uke type sound.. It’s the equivalent of playing a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret.

    I know a couple of piano chords, but I’d like to be able to play properly. Can’t really get the two hands playing different things though.


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    #79
    Capt'n Midnight
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    frosty123 wrote: »
    Which would be the easiest instrument to learn...The Triangle ?
    The canons in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture ?


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    #80
    Rodney Bathgate
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    The spoons.


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    #81
    JustAThought
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    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    The spoons.

    Tricky!!

    Xylaphone - any 3 yo can play that!


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    #82
    GoneHome
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    I know the basics of the guitar but would love to get bigger into it, having said that I could sing away in a sing-song and have been told I can hold a tune :D


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    #83
    simongurnick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭simongurnick


    Uileann pipes


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    #84
    metaoblivia
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    Ukulele. I'm a trained classical singer and play piano at an intermediate level. But I should add a string instrument to my rep. Why the ukulele? My grandfather was born in Hilo, HI and was of Portuguese descent, via grandparents from the Azores and Madeira. The Madeirans introduced the ukulele to Hawaii, so if I'm going to learn a string instrument, it should be the ukulele.


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    #85
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Your Face wrote: »
    The Uilleann pipes. Lovely sounding instrument.

    In the right hands


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    #86
    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭scotchy


    I play a bit of Tenor Banjo, but always wanted to have a go at the Double Base.

    Its not the easiest looking instrument to lug around to sessions, but always sounds great, and looks really cool.

    :cool:

    .

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



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    #87
    trashcan
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    metaoblivia wrote: »
    Ukulele. I'm a trained classical singer and play piano at an intermediate level. But I should add a string instrument to my rep. Why the ukulele? My grandfather was born in Hilo, HI and was of Portuguese descent, via grandparents from the Azores and Madeira. The Madeirans introduced the ukulele to Hawaii, so if I'm going to learn a string instrument, it should be the ukulele.

    You should check out the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain if you haven’t already. Lots of their stuff on YouTube. They are quite brilliant, play everything from Life on Mars, to Teenage Kicks, to Pinball Wizard, to Wuthering Heights.
    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    In the right hands

    Reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote.. “A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.” :D


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    #88
    fryup
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    FanadMan wrote: »

    I've played the guitar and harmonica for close to 40 years

    tried the harmonica, man was that hard! suck & blow in such short intervals...my lips & tongue would go numb:o


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    endacl
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    fryup wrote: »
    tried the harmonica, man was that hard! suck & blow in such short intervals...my lips & tongue would go numb:o

    Oh, man....

    That’s the greatest ever opportunity for an After Hours reply!

    Must.... restrain ... childish .... impulses....

    :D


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    Bobblehats
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    fryup wrote: »
    tried the harmonica, man was that hard! suck & blow in such short intervals...my lips & tongue would go numb:o

    With the blues harp you need to get up up close and personal, really wrap yourself around that thing. You’ll be belting out midnight rambler in no time


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    #91
    Ultrflat
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    Base for sure I Love Jamiroqui but there original base player has gone a little WHACKADOODLE but still supremely talented individual.


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