Non-stringed Instruments You Also Play

[WRM]

Took early Piano lessons, but it's really a "Stringed instrument", so that doesn't count.
Flute (5th-12th grade)
Harmonica
Theremin (ducks).

 

[Sam Evans]

 

[DeltaPhoenix]

same! What’s your setup?

What up other modular fans!

 

[salmon256]

Anglo-Concertina
Use to play a bit of trombone and alto sax
Harmonica
Have some others I rarely play that are obscure folk and ancient instruments like jaw-harp and Aulos
Use to play a bit of drums love to have one again to just play on!

 

[80jazz]

Drums and piano.

 

[BadMonk]

when i was younger and healthier (no breathing issues), i enjoyed the sax and the flute but started my musical journey on keyboards (large Hammond organs).

 

[Fender_Bender]

 

[KellyC]

I’m fair-to-middlin’ on a trap kit, like Buddy Rich after a serious closed head injury.

 

[Sid Fang]

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OMG *two* Drumulators? I had one of the very first, with proprietary protocol over RS-232 serial instead of MIDI. Fortunately I was a hacker and could integrate it into my home brew S100 CP/M system, along with an industrial analog/digital card that drove my analog synths! First decent sampled drum box for less than $5K.

 

[Sid Fang]

...and as for the topic of the thread, sax was my first instrument and piano was my second. Nowadays I do trot out a MIDI wind controller (I have a Yamaha and an Akai) and/or a keyboard from time to time, but I've got this string thing.

 

[Jimmy Howe]

I keep a concert flute laying around for the times I feel like attempting some Jethro Tull. Possibly my favorite band… tho’ Kansas sometimes creeps ahead. Tried violin years ago. Wisely gave up!

 

[lowdownbp5]

Congas

Shoe Horn

 

[Mark from Boston]

Started playing trumpet when I was 12. Put it down in college and picked it up again 25 years ago.

Playing with an R&B band at an outdoor thing last fall.

I took up in the bass in my 50s.

 

[poochiecheeks]

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.

Hi, side question but would you say a DX7 is a good buy today even though modern keys have a majority of those sounds available? Going through this question currently. Want to double on keys in my band covering 80s stuff but don't want something with a billion features and menus to scroll through that I will never use.

 

[ebo]

In response to the picture in post #23, what in dear lord is going on there?! Hope you’re not related to the Unibomber.

 

[CaperBass]

Started on harmonica when I was 40 and bass when I was 58...62 now. Photos of harmonica amps. Some have been moved on and I have some new old ones including a 1952 Valco Oahu. The Art Deco looking one in the center I built. It has a Fender Champ replica amp inside. I also made the two Pine cabinets. The Fender amp is a 1973 Musicmaster Bass amp.

Harmonicas and 1950s Shure Green Bullet

Amps

Valco Oahu (photo from web but mine is identical)

 

[BD Jones]

I've been a band director for...well a long time (since the 90s). So, I can play (and teach) everything in the band hall (or orchestra room, but those have strings) and some other things.

 

[J Wilson]

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[Dincrest]

This school year, one of my assignments is supporting a special needs student in a handbells class and I'm getting better at that. There is an art and a knack to ringing handbells properly, using all those techniques, and a different approach to playing in an ensemble where you're responsible for individual notes rather than a full on part.

As a kid I briefly took piano lessons (which didn't work out because I was a 5 year old with a lousy attention span), played recorder in 3rd and 4th grades, baritone horn in 5th- 9th grade, played flute briefly in 7th grade.

Bass is the instrument that truly stuck and is a key aspect of my identity.

 

[BlueTalon]

I took bagpipe lessons several decades ago, and got decent at playing them. I still have them.

I bought a sax several years ago with the intention of learning. I still have it, but I'm not even sure where it is at the moment.

My first instrument was cello, but that has strings.