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Non-stringed Instruments You Also Play
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Keys(butchery really)
Drum machines and sequencers
Stylophone
My mouth hole
Plus violin and guitar but those have strings
Drum machines and sequencers
Stylophone
My mouth hole
Plus violin and guitar but those have strings
More like "have played" - not proficient on anything besides bass now, but:
- played sousaphone in school and in a semi pro marching band through my twenties
- studied trombone and tuba in college
- gigged on trumpet a couple of times with another marching band while in college
- played trombone, baritone, trumpet and French horn in a college recital
- three semesters of piano in college
I could probably get around on any of the horns given a few weeks and I can know my way around a keyboard, but would never be proficient enough to do it with a band.
- played sousaphone in school and in a semi pro marching band through my twenties
- studied trombone and tuba in college
- gigged on trumpet a couple of times with another marching band while in college
- played trombone, baritone, trumpet and French horn in a college recital
- three semesters of piano in college
I could probably get around on any of the horns given a few weeks and I can know my way around a keyboard, but would never be proficient enough to do it with a band.
I'm the same way with drums. Been playing a little more than a year. And I sometimes sit in on sax with this jam band I know. I can improvise just fine on the sax. Can't wait until I can improvise on the drums!
I've taken a dive into modular synths for the last several years, and that takes most of my non-bass time
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- Decendant from the Clovis culture. "Emitting that wonderful bass effect since 1970".
trumpet player since 6th grade, was my main instrument as a music major in college when I first played bass and fell in love. I don't have any gigs on trumpet anymore, and, ended up selling all my really nice gear years ago to pay for rent. Not happy about that, but, it is what it is. I did get an ol junk euphonium a while back and get to play in Tuba Xmas each year which is a ton of fun.
Here's an embarrassing photo of young me
and one from my college days playing this super cool 1905 cornet my dad found. Sounds so cool
Here's an embarrassing photo of young me
and one from my college days playing this super cool 1905 cornet my dad found. Sounds so cool
Keys is the only other non-stringed instrument I play. I learned how to play piano as a young kid, I read music, and I understand chord structures. However, outside of a few Doors songs that I play note for note, I don't do leads. Chords are no problem and I'll typically play whichever inversion of a chord makes it easier to move between the preceding chord and the following chord, but I really don't play solo's on Keys. I have a Yamaha DX7s in a flight case. That's the last version of the DX7 that Yamaha made and it has 16-voices instead of just the 8-voices the previous ones had.
I do also have my Dad's Alto-Sax that I was trying to learn how to play but it drove my wife crazy - practice is about making mistakes and keeping at it until you don't - but for her peace of mind, I stopped. Also in grade school I took up the cornet (like a fat trumpet) and learned the beginning stuff in that for our elementary school band.
I do also have my Dad's Alto-Sax that I was trying to learn how to play but it drove my wife crazy - practice is about making mistakes and keeping at it until you don't - but for her peace of mind, I stopped. Also in grade school I took up the cornet (like a fat trumpet) and learned the beginning stuff in that for our elementary school band.
Concert flute, bari sax, keys and drums. I own a few others, but would not step on stage with them, much less subject any but my enemies to the cacophony. Those are played in isolation...for safety.
