Giving or getting anything special Christmas?

TBrett · #1 12-21-2010, 08:21 PM

My 12-year-old step-daughter has been asking for a piano for several years now. We've given her violin and drum lessons in the past, but she was young and couldn't hack the repetition of daily practice. So investing in a piano is out of the question until we have some assurance that she's ready. We don't have room for one right now, anyway. But she keeps asking, insisting it's her instrument. So last week, I found a way cool deal on a brand new Yamaha 61-key electronic model with pressure-sensitive keys, MIDI capability, built-in lessons, and a bunch of other fun features for a very affordable price. Our local music store was offering a sweet special that included a stand and sustain pedal. So the plan is, we're just going to wrap the sustain pedal and give it to her all by itself, and then bring out the big box when she figures it out. I wonder how long it will take before she realizes what the pedal is for. I have a feeling that when it dawns on her, her voice is going to go so high, only dogs will hear it!

If she grows bored with it, the store will buy it back, or I can always keep it and use it for composing. No harm in adding another piece of gear to our collection, I figure.

Anyone else excited about a special gift for a family member or friend this year? Barring that, is anyone getting something something you've been dreaming about?

jonathan_matos5 · #2 12-21-2010, 08:33 PM

i got socks!

warwick.hoy · #3 12-21-2010, 08:36 PM

I got iPod Mini. Everyone know is for girls.

**jmattbassplaya** · #4 12-21-2010, 08:37 PM

I'm getting the digital piano I've been wanting for a few years now. I'm pretty excited

MiniMoose234 · #5 12-21-2010, 08:45 PM

I got a team awesome fuzz machine, and i'm getting a framed picture of my brother,dad and I for my mom because she's one of 'those' picture people, and the only one she has is from yeaaarrs ago. So that'll be cool

especially because as a joke i'm putting a picture of my best friend in the frame for when she opens it haha.

And i got my girlfriend a cool shirt from threadless thats got snakes on it, we're bother wannabe herpetologists.

TBrett · #6 12-21-2010, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MiniMoose234

I got a team awesome fuzz machine, and i'm getting a framed picture of my brother,dad and I for my mom because she's one of 'those' picture people, and the only one she has is from yeaaarrs ago. So that'll be cool

especially because as a joke i'm putting a picture of my best friend in the frame for when she opens it haha.

And i got my girlfriend a cool shirt from threadless thats got snakes on it, we're bother wannabe herpetologists.

Love the idea of putting your best friend's photo in the frame for when your mom opens it! I also love snakes. When we were teenagers, a good friend of mine had a boa constrictor named Fred, who used to love snoozing around my neck. I had very long, thick hair back then, so it was nice and warm for him under there. Only trouble was, he would inevitably get tangled and start squeezing out of panic. Thankfully he was only 6 feet long and easily handled. Still, it often took two or three of us to get him untangled again. Good times!

MiniMoose234 · #7 12-21-2010, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TBrett

Love the idea of putting your best friend's photo in the frame for when your mom opens it! I also love snakes. When we were teenagers, a good friend of mine had a boa constrictor named Fred, who used to love snoozing around my neck. I had very long, thick hair back then, so it was nice and warm for him under there. Only trouble was, he would inevitably get tangled and start squeezing out of panic. Thankfully he was only 6 feet long and easily handled. Still, it often took two or three of us to get him untangled again. Good times!

My girlfriend has an anerythistic cornsnake and a ball python and I have a western hognose snakes. gotta love em, such cool animals.http://www.threadless.com/submission...y_Before_Death Heres the shirt/design just incase your interested. Really awesome, I kinda wish I could have a bass with that as the body art.

**bassybill** · #8 12-21-2010, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

I'm getting the digital piano I've been wanting for a few years now. I'm pretty excited

Every musician's house needs a keyboard in it, imo. Have fun!

hover · #9 12-21-2010, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

Every musician's house needs a keyboard in it, imo. Have fun!

yeah, mine's only a midi controller, but my piano and synth virtual instruments are fantastic.

**colcifer** · #10 12-21-2010, 10:00 PM

River Cottage Meat Book for my mom and stepdad. They love cooking, particularly meat (My mom made KILLER roast beef with a horse radish crust the other night. Luckily she sends me texts so I can go over and eat with them whenever they're doing something special like that.) so it'll be great for them. It's well over five hundred pages long with the first half being everything to know about meat and the second half recipes. Seeing as it's as much for me as it is for them, I did a good job picking this gift out.

Alucard817 · #11 12-21-2010, 10:03 PM

Probably getting nothing special, just some guitar stands.

Last year was my big year, I got a Jackson JS-30 Kelly.

**jmattbassplaya** · #12 12-21-2010, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

Every musician's house needs a keyboard in it, imo. Have fun!

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to learning the instrument

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Originally Posted by hover

yeah, mine's only a midi controller, but my piano and synth virtual instruments are fantastic.

The keyboard I'm getting actually comes with a midi controller, but I have no clue what it is actually used for

TBrett · #13 12-21-2010, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MiniMoose234

My girlfriend has an anerythistic cornsnake and a ball python and I have a western hognose snakes. gotta love em, such cool animals.http://www.threadless.com/submission...y_Before_Death Heres the shirt/design just incase your interested. Really awesome, I kinda wish I could have a bass with that as the body art.

Love it!!! Hope you figure out how to have that on your bass someday, too!

TBrett · #14 12-21-2010, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

Every musician's house needs a keyboard in it, imo. Have fun!

Agreed!

**Pacman** · #15 12-22-2010, 12:37 AM

I know there's a Canon 5Dmkii under the tree for me....come oooon, Christmas!

NateS · #16 12-22-2010, 02:04 AM

nothing specifically for me, but my roomie and i got a flatscreen tv for our living room. he's seen it, but i haven't yet..hope it's good.
other than that, i'm floating in nothing though, not really giving anything, not really getting anything. thinking of buying my friends gift cards for the restaurant i work at, haven't decided yet.

MakiSupaStar · #17 12-22-2010, 02:29 AM

My son's first skateboard.

Chebass88 · #18 12-22-2010, 06:20 AM

I bought my wife a macbook pro. She knows what it is, but still wants me to go through the sham of wrapping it.

Kosko · #19 12-22-2010, 09:03 AM

I'm thinking about buying my fiancée health insurance, that coverage is expensive!

ThudThudThud · #20 12-22-2010, 09:09 AM

In March of this year, after an exhaustive search that has lasted her whole life, I found my long lost, now 24-year old daughter. I've never met her. Her mother was 8+ months pregnant when she suddenly disappeared from my life.

She's arriving here from England on Christmas eve.
Best present ever.