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How many Instruments Do You Play And How Well?

Pro Grade - Electric Bass

"Hobby" (able to jam but nothing I would charge for) - Upright Bass, hope to get this to Pro Grade someday

Good Enough to get my ideas across (but definitely not performance quality) - Acoustic Guitar, Drums

Barely Functional (I know the notes and that's about it) - Piano; really wish I would have kept up on this in my younger days

Also, from junior high through college days I played 6 years of French Horn and about 3 years of Tuba... and could probably get back up to performance quality on either of those but it would take a lot of work.
 
Bass - Good
Guitar - Good
Mando - Good
Banjo - meh (can play but not in a band situation without really practicing)
Drums - meh (I can hold a beat. I usually play for a few mins at church on the weekend just to mess around)
 
bass - professionally

guitar - professionally, but I'm a much better bassist than guitarist.

drums - used to be semi-decent back in high school & undergrad, now I'm just hopelessly out-of-practice.

keyboards - I can actually hang as the "orchestral cheese" synthesist in most contemporary pop bands, but I can't play piano or anything remotely like a meat&potatos keyboard part to save my life.

flute - I was considered a virtuoso as a 10 year old...and by the time I was 12 years old I sucked. I pick it up once every couple of years just to remind myself that I still suck.
 
Bass - still learning, but getting better.
Dulcimer - decent
Flute - played for 5 to 6 years in school, was pretty good; I recently picked up a new flute so I can get back into practice; we'll see if I can get anywhere near as good as I used to be...
Also have an autoharp somewhere, was decent on that, but it's not a very hard instrument to learn all in all.
 
bass - pretty well definatly my best
guitar - also pretty well, im comfortable playing leads and rhythm live, i like to play acoustic more
keyboard - for recording yes, but nothing complex, im not too great
Drums - decent i guess
Baritone - i played grade 5-8 i know how to play pretty good, havnt touched one in a long time, not my thing
vocals - death metal,black metal,sludgey/hardcore yes, singing = ehh, im not really comfortable but i can match a pitch n stuff im not tone deaf soooo, maybe if i practice
mcnally strumstick - pretty decent actually ahahah
 
Bass- fairly well, maybe even good.
Guitar- ok, good enough to write songs.
Keyboards- not as well as guitar, but I'm a badass with an analog synth. (knob twiddlin')
Trumpet- not as well as, say, 30 yrs ago.
Drums- fairly pathetic, but I do have fun.
Vocals- alright, decent backing vox.
 
Bass: Decent enough; though after more than 35 years, I should think I'd be better.
Acoustic Guitar: I know a few chords.
Wooden Flute: Good enough to entertain my little girl and myself.
Mountain Dulcimer: Well, I have fun.
Tibetan Singing Bowl: I'm awesome!! But, who isn't?
 
Bass - Very Well, and I damned well better after 35+ years :p

Major limitation is that I never learned to read
OTOH good knowledge of theory and a good ear helps overcome this most of the time

Guitar - Good

I write and play out regularly on a flat-top acoustic (fingerstyle)
Electric occasionally, but I wouldn't dare to try and make a living at it

Vox - Competent harmony and lead within my range

Keys - Very basic knowledge of the keyboard

Only enough to demo simple licks/chords and such

Open-hole flutes - Beginner level

Haven't touched 'em in years and would probably embarrass myself if I tried it in front of an audience
 
Piano-decent

Bass-pretty good-better than piano, and only been playing for two years vs since I was a kid on piano! lol

clarinet-haven't played since kid but played it with school band

recorder-can make out tunes

you can give me pretty much any instrument and I can pick out songs on it.