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What Was Your First Musical Instrument?
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Voice, then trumpet, then tuba, then Bass. I was bought a classical guitar in 3rd or 4th grade, but the neck was way too wide for my hands at that time and I never actually did anything with it.
Piano, when I was little (failed). First that stuck was clarinet in 4th grade (10 yrs). Then bass in 6th (12).
When I was little there was a post lamp in the family living room with 3 different size metal lampshades. I used to play drums on that thing until my mom yelled at me to CUT IT OUT!! heheh! Argh, don't fire me!
Piano at the age of 7.
I had a Yamaha Keyboard for practice.
Alto saxophone at 14 and Tenor at 15.
Bass was 16…and besides owning guitars too, bass is my passion.
I had a Yamaha Keyboard for practice.
Alto saxophone at 14 and Tenor at 15.
Bass was 16…and besides owning guitars too, bass is my passion.
Jazzdogg
Less barking, more wagging!
Piano from about 5
Took lessons from 8-18 from the same patient teacher
Messed around with cello for a year or so in elementary school.
Tried flute, clarinet, guitar, but just stuck with what I was good at, piano
Added organ along the way and started playing in church at about 16.
Added bass much later around 40 years old.
Now equally proficient at both piano and bass.
Took lessons from 8-18 from the same patient teacher
Messed around with cello for a year or so in elementary school.
Tried flute, clarinet, guitar, but just stuck with what I was good at, piano
Added organ along the way and started playing in church at about 16.
Added bass much later around 40 years old.
Now equally proficient at both piano and bass.
The first one that was solely my own, was the clarinet my parents bought for me when I was forced to learn to play it in the 4th grade in lieu of the alto sax that I originally wanted. I finally got my wish 3 years later. My first bass was when I was 17.
Not sure if I had some toy instrument before that, but the earliest I remember was flute in first grade. I hated it, it delayed my general interest in music by a few years, and I still generally hate flutes.
A melodica in 6th grade made it all better and soon after I got a second hand church organ (without the giant reeds).
First instrument I played seriously and studied outside of school programs was electric guitar at 17yo.
A melodica in 6th grade made it all better and soon after I got a second hand church organ (without the giant reeds).
First instrument I played seriously and studied outside of school programs was electric guitar at 17yo.
Recorder was my first instrument that I actually practiced and could play.
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I got a practice pad and a pair of drumsticks from my grandmother when I was ~5 or 6 years old. My neighbor was a professional jazz drummer and he gave me a few pointers (and some of his old sticks) and sometime around age 7 or 8 me and my friends started a band where I played "drums" ...which really consisted of the aforementioned practice pad, a steelworker's helmet, two garbage cans, and a couple of heavy-duty rubber balloons. (In hindsight, I sometimes think that was the coolest sounding drum kit I've come across in the last 50+ years.) A year or so later I got a real [sic] drumkit, which was actually one of those deaprtment store toy kits, but at least it had a kick pedal and something that resembled a hihat cymbal arrangement.
When I was 8 years old I started playing the flute, and quickly became quite* accomplished on that instrument. So in a lot of ways I feel like the flute was really my first musical instrument...only because the drums, even though they came first, were such a half-assed jury-rigged approach... I didn't play on a real drumkit until I was 16 years old, long after I'd abandoned the flute and started playing guitar and bass.
* by "quite" accomplished I simply mean moreso than a typical 8-year-old might become. I was by no stretch of the imagination a Virtuoso, I was simply really good for an 8-year-old.
When I was 8 years old I started playing the flute, and quickly became quite* accomplished on that instrument. So in a lot of ways I feel like the flute was really my first musical instrument...only because the drums, even though they came first, were such a half-assed jury-rigged approach... I didn't play on a real drumkit until I was 16 years old, long after I'd abandoned the flute and started playing guitar and bass.
* by "quite" accomplished I simply mean moreso than a typical 8-year-old might become. I was by no stretch of the imagination a Virtuoso, I was simply really good for an 8-year-old.
