What ither instruments do you play?

[fettbass]

Electric Bass
Piano
Guitar
Drums

 

[honestjohnny]

Bass (I prefer to define this as a frequency range, rather than a particular instrument per se)
Guitar
Violin (badly)
Mandolin
Ukulele

 

[Baird6869]

Pretty good with a guitar

Pretty bad with keys and mandolin.

I played cowbell on Lowrider at an open jam I host this weekend.... does that count?

 

[rapturebass]

Does recorder count? I wouldn't think so, because its everyone's first instrument. So;

recorder for 4th grade only (mandatory)
bass since May 2, 2008 (my first lesson)

 

[PunkRockBass]

Bass
Guitar
Recorder
Tenor Recorder
Clarinet
Piano
Didgeridoo
Ukulele
Violin

and other random stuff ha

 

[santucci218]

...why is this in the bass forum?

 

[rapturebass]

Upright Bass
Double Bass
String Bass
Bass Fiddle
Standup Bass
Acoustic Bass
Bass Violin
Contrabass

I try to keep my chops up on all of them

 

[Carver]

Let's see....

I was classically trained on piano for 13 years before I even picked up a bass, so I guess that is my main instrument. I also try and keep up my skills on guitar, and I sometimes do some percussion work as well.

 

[Bassman316]

Bass and some wannabe guitar. I can play some major chords on piano, um.... I finger one or two notes on my sister's violin.... Tried stringing up my late uncle's cuatro from Puerto Rico, got halfway there before the tuner on the octave D string literraly fell off (it's very old), so I could have added cuatro to my list, but I suppose not. Oh well....

 

[capnsandwich]

I played piano first, at 3 years old mind you, but couldn't stay interested long enough so I quit in 6th grade. I picked up drums in my middle school days but we moved too many times for me to master it since I never owned my own kit. I picked up guitar in high school and got pretty good at it actually, good enough to get some session work. I'm still a avid acoustic player. Some people say I should do a solo project with acoustic guitar but I'm a bass junkie and I'll never let go of the big strings. I still do a little session work on acoustic but more so with bass. I like it better that way.

 

[T-MOST]

I confess... I play guitar also.

 

[amandolin]

Mandolin and melodica. And I pretty much suck at both of them.

 

[Baird6869]

P.S. I borrowed a 3/4 Strunel double bass today to try...... add double bass to my "I suck at" column!

Damn these things are REALLY hard for a lifelong electric bassist to get used to (in 10 minutes anyways!)...

 

[Dave R]

Damn these things (upright bass) are REALLY hard for a lifelong electric bassist to get used to (in 10 minutes anyways!)...

Don't I know it! I got an upright 3-4 years ago, and started playing seriously just over a year ago. MUCH harder transition that electric guitar to acoustic guitar. And then there's the whole bowing thing. Did you know that pro (symphonic) bassists often use a different rosin in summer vs. winter?

But hey, once you get over the hump, its awsome!

Instruments I play:

'Lectric bass
Upright bass (yay!)
Guitar (took it up when I found out how boring it is playing bass by yourself)
Keys (when my bro stepped on my guitar and broke it, I had nothing else to play. Our awesome keyboardist watched me play for a while once with a puzzled look on his face and then said "Oh, I get it! You're playing guitar on the keys!

 

[Chunk-O-Funk]

Bass
Kazoo
Bass Kazoo
Tambourine
Spoons


Although It's a little advanced I do quite well on this:

 

[SnappyFerret]

Guitar, upright bass, piano, saxophone (in order of decreasing proficiency).

 

[UncleBalsamic]

Bass
Trumpet
Cornet

 

[Showdown]

Guitar
Mandolin
Ukulele (I live in Hawaii...it's almost required here )

 

[serein2j]

In no particular order,

Piano, Bass, Guitar, Flute, Mallets & all other kinds of percussion being played in Orchestra, Jazz band.

 

[Showdown]

...why is this in the bass forum?

I believe that playing other instruments, especially instruments that you play chords on, makes you a better bass player. It helps you understand what the other instruments in the band do, it helps you understand chord theory, it is good for you as a bass player. So, IMHO it is relevant.

Playing guitar also helps me to sit in with bands on songs I don't know. I can follow the guitar player because I know what he is playing. This has come in handy many times. I'm pretty good at it too. I've played a whole set of songs I didn't know, on a gig, and no one knew it. I've played in several bands where the leader would just start playing a song that we didn't know and we had to jump in and do it. I've even done it by watching a keyboard players hands. I don't really play keyboards, but I know enough to recognize what they are playing.