Do you play a trad instrument?

I could use one yesterday... or tomorrow if your available. I play live shows, have one out in Sligo in the near future. Ring 087 9009541

I play the fiddle, been at it about 2 years and still going strong. Looking forward to when I'll be able to hold a tune in about another 10 !

I play the tin whistle, piano accordian and low whistle...can bang out one or two tunes on the madolin and banjo..

www.thesession.org is a great resource for tunes.

Hi folks!

I'm a new member! I'm italian but every year from 1998 I come back in Ireland for my holidays.
I play C#D button accordion... Uhmmm.... I try to play it!

My mife play bodhran and try to play fiddle.

yes uilleanns and amall pipes and highland pipes whistles and do vocals in a group,,

Waterford City..

I've just started to play the flute again (was out of practise) and I play tin whistle but not very well...difficult to find someone who teach that around here...

I play a few bits. Mostly guitar and fiddle. Tip away on the mandolin, banjo and piano too. Play the sax (alto) when I'm home alone and the drums.
Have been known to arse around with a tin whistle and mouth organ at times.

Fiddle is my number one though.

i wrestle with uilleanns, need to get back practisin again, got a load of whistle lessons last year in leitrim, its v.handy for learnin tunes.

place your vids of your attempts here, i stuck me friends up, so i suppose its only fair i should stick my sad effort on whistle or pipes up. ill do it this week. be prepared to listen to tunes being played wrong and notes missing! mess!

I've played the tinwhistle on and off since primary school. Have recently taken up the low whistle but will need a lot of practice before leaving the house with it!

I got into trad through a very roundabout method. I love music in general quite a bit, so when I finally decided I had to play, I picked whistle. Easy, portable, no tuning required, self-teachable... what could be better for someone with no attention span? It took a while, but I taught myself. Unfortunately, since I am an American living in California, it is not always easy to find the music. There are Irish pubs that host sessions. I know of at least three (there are more), and only 75 miles seperate the farthest two. Unfortunately, since I do not already know the music I cannot learn at the sessions because either so few people show up that anything you do stands out, or too many show up and you can't hear both the music and what you are doing.
I finally found someone who can tell me where to find a good book for learning some songs of the kind that I call "session music" (I am not sure of the proper term, but this is almost exclusively instrumentals that can be played on any instrument - almost always in the key of G). As distinct from "pub" songs (drinking songs, songs with words, the stuff most Americans think of as traditional Irish).
I tend to play whistle mostly for pop/rock and pub songs. Our band now has someone bringing us some of the session music, and it is a great change of pace to be able to switch between different kinds of music.
Way too many words already... but I also play bass guitar (not very trad) and sing (unfortunately not as well or in the style of great Irish singers).

There are a couple of open Trad sessions within 10 min drive of Lucan. There is one in the poitin stil in rathcoole on wednesdays that Tom Moran organised.

There is another one in the Celbridge House on thursdays (I've never been to this one)

I play the guitar and banjo/mandolin and have a bodhran that I hit sometimes. I'm going to learn the fiddle in the new year too.