The Multi-instrumentalists Club

Fassa Albrecht · #1 10-03-2010, 02:47 PM

Anyone who plays at least one other instrument, feel free to come in, sign up and discuss their other instruments!

I'm a drummer (not a very good one!), bassist (obviously) and keyboardist.

Rip Topaz · #2 10-03-2010, 02:52 PM

Bassist (!), but I also play, or should I say collect, guitar, drums, dulcimer, keys, and a little harmonica.
I've had a home studio for the last 15 or so years, so when the need for an instrument artists, well, you get the idea. No reason to fake it with a sample when you can play it for real.

Fassa Albrecht · #3 10-03-2010, 02:53 PM

You can be no.2!

Thunderscreech · #4 10-03-2010, 03:36 PM

I play bass, bass, bass and bass. And a one-string abomination that I lovingly named after my username.

I've also been known to play the Vuvuzela at times...

thenickmeister · #5 10-03-2010, 03:39 PM

I'm a bassist really, although I actually play drums in a band, but not bass. Not sure how that one works out.

I also dabble with acoustic guitar, although barre chords are beyond me at the moment!

Evil Undead · #6 10-03-2010, 03:45 PM

Can I join?

I play bass, guitar and drums. But I'm a horrible drummer

Daniel J · #7 10-03-2010, 04:12 PM

Sweet I'm in.

Bass of course.

piano, guitar, drums, hand percussion (congas, frame drums, misc stuff), alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto clarinet....

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deste · #8 10-03-2010, 04:45 PM

I play the bassetto di viola (a small 3-stringed double bass tuned G# D# A# - you know, ancient pitches were quite different...) in a renaissance ensemble, but I think it's not enough...
For a short while I played occasionally piano in a big band, and still I play it in jam sessions. In some pop records I also played guitars (even soloing, wow!) and keyboards, but in studio only. Always wished I could play drums: friends told me I could swing pretty well with brushes and hihat, but a disaster when trying to add bassdrum in syncopation.. In a pop band, some 20 years ago, I used to play alto sax in two songs (the bass part played by keyboards) but I dropped it away after a gig that resulted more tragic than the others... No reeds anymore for me, just stringed instruments.
Ah, sometimes frame drums (the second, easier line, of course) in the same renaissance ensemble when we gig 16th century dances; they also menaced me to make me play a sort of theorba, but still it's a low-pitched stringed instrument...

Lady Kayri · #9 10-03-2010, 04:48 PM

Bass guitar, flute (have one with a 'c foot' and one with a 'b foot), recorder (soprano and alto recorders), dulcimer (own two), and autoharp. It's the basses and the flutes that get played the most, though. Just got some new strings for the dulcimers; one needs some repair work done on the headstock and nut; may end up having to replace the nut...Good times!

Epitaph04 · #10 10-03-2010, 04:49 PM

Drums were my first instrument about 4 years ago. Totally been on and off since. Picked up the guitar about 2 years ago, and the bass one year ago.

Guitar is okay every once and a while, but bass is AWESOME! : D

BassesForTheWin · #11 10-03-2010, 05:02 PM

Bass (obviously) drums, and banjo

Hotrodmick · #12 10-03-2010, 08:10 PM

I'm in. I am a Harmonica player

, cornet, guitar and bass. I used to play banjo in the 80's but didn't care for Moonshine

Give me a number

Mick

Joel_bass · #13 10-03-2010, 08:18 PM

Bass obviously. I also play and teach guitar and keyboard. I used to play tenor sax, and sometimes I still pick it up.

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totallyfrozen · #14 10-03-2010, 08:54 PM

Currently, I only play bass.
I used to play [in order of skill]: drums (hate to brag but I was very good), keyboard (decent), saxophone (mediocre)...alto sax is my fav sax, guitar (I suck at guitar but I'm working on it), and harmonica (I suck at that too...well, suck and blow, LOL!)

Bass is my favorite now and all I currently play (partly because I don't own a piano or decent keyboard anymore).

@Hotrodmick, I've been wanting to learn the banjo for awhile. I might actually get distracted from bass and pick that one up one day.

suspicious · #15 10-03-2010, 09:52 PM

I play violin, bass and guitar in that order.

NateS · #16 10-03-2010, 10:06 PM

i play bass/double bass, guitar, keyboard/piano, cello, viola, violin, various hand percussion, drums, and i can play a decent recorder.

I want to get an ocarina to play with, as well as more random acoustic instruments.

I've played viola the longest (since middle school - 10 years ago...wow..), but have considered bass/double bass my main instrument for the last 3

somegeezer · #17 10-03-2010, 10:08 PM

Bassist - main
Drummer - 2nd
Guitarist, keyboard/pianist, steel pan player, vocalist, theremin player, various untuned percussion... etc
I could probably work my way around a double bass with a bit of practise. I'd love to learn to play violin, bagpipes and saxophone eventually too.
EDIT - Post above reminded me... ocarina is another I'd love to play.

NateS · #18 10-03-2010, 10:11 PM

and your post made me wish i had a theremin to play...i just don't have the money to buy one...

somegeezer · #19 10-03-2010, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by bassk81976

and your post made me wish i had a theremin to play...i just don't have the money to buy one...

I don't own one either. They are quite expensive pieces of kit. But if I had the money spare, I'd be all over buying one. I also don't own a drum kit, which is really weird, seeing as it's my 2nd instrument after bass.

Samsound · #20 10-03-2010, 10:20 PM

You can make one from an Altoids tin.
Bass, guitar, tenor sax, light keys, and producer here.