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Non-stringed Instruments You Also Play
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Saxophone Bari, Tenor, Alto, Soprano. Serious about it. Selmer Paris and Pro Yamaha.
I can also play flute but I hardly practice now.
Keys (Have piano as well as analog and digital synths )
Drums (have a small collection of cymbals and good snares)
Gamelan Gongs and other hand percussion
I can also play flute but I hardly practice now.
Keys (Have piano as well as analog and digital synths )
Drums (have a small collection of cymbals and good snares)
Gamelan Gongs and other hand percussion
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In high school (in addition to bass guitar) I played clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, flute and oboe.
For some reason I just got a hankering for Genesis and King Crimson.
Studied classical organ for years before I picked up a bass.
Yes, JPJ is my main man.
Yes, JPJ is my main man.
Recorder (all 7 sizes), traverso (both baroque and renaissance); old stuff like rauschpfeiff, racket, crumhorn; exotic stuff like xiao, dizi, banrusi, quena, kaval, ney. I dabble in hand percussion. Keys go without saying.
If you ask me, things like the "Rhodes" piano of the DX7 are among having-aged-worst sounds around. I can't stand 80s movies because of the soundtrack that was at the time surely the pinnacle of "hip".
Play is such a strong word. I dabble in drums sometimes. But it's been several decades since I had regular access to a kit. If I need to communicate a beat, I'll just beatbox it. If you know rhythm, you'll understand it. Got funny looks in the ballroom, tho.
Everyone can play blues harmonica. Took chromatica up to basic jamming in all the keys up in tower cranes (lots of down time and privacy). But then it got crusty and no fun to play.
Always know I should learn more keys, but always got something on the go on bass to distract me.
Edit: Post above reminds me. I should see if the didge frightens the Bugs.
Everyone can play blues harmonica. Took chromatica up to basic jamming in all the keys up in tower cranes (lots of down time and privacy). But then it got crusty and no fun to play.
Always know I should learn more keys, but always got something on the go on bass to distract me.
Edit: Post above reminds me. I should see if the didge frightens the Bugs.
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Non-stringed instrument I also play ... the radio.
I bought the wife a Casio keyboard as a present after she mentioned she had one as a kid that she would dabble on. It was met with "Why did you buy me THAT ?!?". She never touched it, so I dabbled with it for a while. It had a training mode where all you had to do was touch a key and it played the correct note for you on pre-programmed songs. You supply the timing.
That feature made for a great prank. I broke it out in front of a friend who plays guitar and is fairly decent on keys too. I started playing and he thought I was doing pretty good. Then I started playing with my knuckles, fist, elbow and nose and he finally knew something was up. LOL.
That got sold at a loss at a garage sale ... Back to the bass.
I bought the wife a Casio keyboard as a present after she mentioned she had one as a kid that she would dabble on. It was met with "Why did you buy me THAT ?!?". She never touched it, so I dabbled with it for a while. It had a training mode where all you had to do was touch a key and it played the correct note for you on pre-programmed songs. You supply the timing.
That feature made for a great prank. I broke it out in front of a friend who plays guitar and is fairly decent on keys too. I started playing and he thought I was doing pretty good. Then I started playing with my knuckles, fist, elbow and nose and he finally knew something was up. LOL.
That got sold at a loss at a garage sale ... Back to the bass.
That was "THE" synth in the 1980's and virtually all of those 80's songs using a synth used the Yamaha DX7. It has what has been called a "fat sound" because most of the digital synths back then sounded pretty tinny. It was the first digitally-controlled FM synthesizer and it produced very realistic sounds. I don't know that it's going to give you anything different than what you already have with your current synth(s) though.
It came with a couple of sets of sounds pre-programmed into it and uses a cartridge for additional sounds. At the time you could get blank cartridges and put all the sound you like on those and just swap out collections by changing the cartridge. You can also program the synth using its FM envelope filters (not sure that's the right name for it). And nerds could and did program various sounds on their DX7 and copy it onto one of those cartridges or replace one of the preset sounds in the DX7 itself.
I got it because I was the only one who could play that keys intro on the Doors "Light My Fire" in our group, so I showed the lead vocalist how to play the bass on it and I played Keys on that one and sang lead on it too. I bought my DX7s because it was the best of the DX7 series; had 16-voices instead of the previous versions 8-voices; and I bought it in its a flight case for $200. It's a great sounding synth but since we moved into a very small place in Washington state I have no room to set it up. So it lives in my Musical Instrument closet along with my amps and cabs.
Drums, keyboards, percussion (congas and vibraslap) and opossum. The opossum is saved for those precious moments just after the song is finished and the rotten vegetables being flung at the stage by the audience haven't arrived yet. 
