What do you play?

[valveman]

I was just thinking, we all like listening music. I was wonder how many of us play an instrument, and make our own music.
What made you decide to play that instrument?

I play a trumpet. I chose this, because I like mainly like Jazz and everyone when I was at school wanted to play drums.
It's just come out of moth balls, and I start to play again :yes:

Also I've just started to learn to play the Saxaphone, again because of my love of Jazz, and I love the sound of a solo sax peice, especially a Tenor Sax.

:guitar:

[dingus]

i play some wicked air drums.

[Filmboydoug]

Trumpet and guitar.

[foetusized]

Used to play Baritone Sax in high school and college, but haven't had one in many years (and they run into money).

I've got a tin whistle I've been playing lately; my tone needs work, and I have problems staying in the correct octave without the help of an octave key, but I have fun -- Foe

[Jovinyl]

Guitar,Finger picker. Mess with electric also.

[Ol' Ken]

I have no musical talent- tried to play guitar in a band during the 60s. I could only strive for mediocrity on a good day. So now I play the stereo. ( My air guitar is out of tune)

[nevermind]

I play Bass Guitar,Sung and been in a band for about 20 years.
I have a vintage Fender JazzBass from the 60s and a Ernie Ball Music Man Made in San Luis Obispo California,from the 70s.
I also have a Shure microphone stollen from the Stray Cats (an American Rockabilly Band from the 80s).And a vintage Phillips EV7012 from the 50s.
My bass amplifier were allways Ampeg with tubes.

It's only rock'n'roll but i like it.

Ciao.

[James Hart]

Bassist (but mess with guitar, piano & sax)

http://www.hartsafire.com/gear.htm <-- my stuff ...8x KT88 + 5x 12AX7 + 1x 12AT7 all tube head and a pair of killer boutique cabinets to play my hand crafted basses :smoke:

http://www.hartsafire.com/music.htm <-- some badly mastered "learning how Cakewalk works" recordings I did on my over the last couple years.

[HIFIVINYL15]

i play viola currently in 9th grade orchestra, i hate that kinda music tho (ROCKS THE ONLY THING FOR ME) so im tryin to teach myself bass guitar right now, its not as easy as it looks. (im quittin the damn viola nxt year BTW) at least bein in orchestra i learned to read music, keep time, yada yada yada...

[Filmboydoug]

Hey HiFi, let me throw you a couple reasons why you should reconsider quitting the viola. By all means learn the bass too tho!

Playing in an orchestra will make you a better rocker in the long run. Listen, I love rock music but it is very simple and one dimensional compared to classical. You'll learn more about music in an orchestra, and that knowledge can be used to write rock music. Plus, an excellent viola player might get all or part of his college paid for. One more thing, every single old guy that I know that gave up an instrument regrets it now.

[Spawndn72]

Stay in the orchestra class man. You will regret it later in life if you don't.

Pesonally I play at the bass guitar. Not very good, but I like to play. I have a Mexican Fender and a Korean Spector. Not high end stuff or anything, but they sound good to me :)

[dr*audio]

I play acoustic guitar, fingerstyle. I actually have a music degree, Voice Performance. Not using it professionally but I do get to play out sometimes.

[HIFIVINYL15]

Hey HiFi, let me throw you a couple reasons why you should reconsider quitting the viola. By all means learn the bass too tho!

Playing in an orchestra will make you a better rocker in the long run. Listen, I love rock music but it is very simple and one dimensional compared to classical. You'll learn more about music in an orchestra, and that knowledge can be used to write rock music. Plus, an excellent viola player might get all or part of his college paid for. One more thing, every single old guy that I know that gave up an instrument regrets it now.

haha theres another thing, i definitely aint an asset to my orchestra, my teachers a fruitloop, no one in my orchestra class even tries (minus a select few) i surprisingly hav learned an extremely little amount about music in that class, soooooo hard to pay attention first block at 7:30 Am. i just figured i might pick up bass and join one of my friends bands while ive got nuthin better to do.

[Sugardawg34]

Guitar and Mandolin mainly....then I just screw around with piano and bass. You could add a vocal category too. I dont sing, but people who can deserve recognition. Just think of how many times your favorite songs were ruined by people who CAN'T SING!!!!!

[Tubejunke]

I have been playing guitar regularly for nearly 20 years. In my twenties I was heavily influenced by power blues rock jam bands a la Hendrix, Zep, Allmans, Cream, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After ect. I still love that stuff but in my mid 30s I have opened up to Folk Music and Bluegrass. Now its Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Flatt&Scruggs, and Johnny Cash. One thing is you always need to explore new horizons or things become redundant. There is always home and that for me will always be Rock/Blues acts I mentioned as my influences but for now I am enjoying playing songs that you can actually play and sing without the need of a rhythm section.

In 1988 I bought a new Gibson Les Paul Standard

Currently my only real amp is an old 50s Epiphone. Tubes are the only way!
I also have a little carry along Pignose.

I have an Alvarez accoustic that gets more use than anything lately.

Tube

[valveman]

Guitar and Mandolin mainly....then I just screw around with piano and bass. You could add a vocal category too. I dont sing, but people who can deserve recognition. Just think of how many times your favorite songs were ruined by people who CAN'T SING!!!!!


I did think about adding vocal to the poll, but I messed it up, so we'll have to make do with the ones I added :sigh:

Yoh! HiFi:-
I'd agree with the others, when I was at school I was in the orchestra, the Jazz band, and 'the show' band (this being the jazz band/orchestra mixed together for school plays on stage - Did My Fair Lady, Billy, West Side Story, and some others)
As most have said you'll learn a lot about music, how to read & write it, transpose for different instruments, even try out other ones, that way you'll have the best of both worlds. I always admired my music teacher, she could play all Woodwind, Piano, some strings...and had great legs :banana:
I tried the piano once, but just couldn't get it, and I can't sing to save my life, well not in tune anyway!!!

[valveman]

Bassist (but mess with guitar, piano & sax)

http://www.hartsafire.com/gear.htm <-- my stuff ...8x KT88 + 5x 12AX7 + 1x 12AT7 all tube head and a pair of killer boutique cabinets to play my hand crafted basses :smoke:

http://www.hartsafire.com/music.htm <-- some badly mastered "learning how Cakewalk works" recordings I did on my over the last couple years.

Super looking basses :guitar:

[Dave918]

Moved to the Musical Instruments forum.

/d

[gator]

Lately a Fender Telecaster through an old Fender Deluxe Reverb. :guitar:

[James Hart]

Super looking basses :guitar:

:thmbsp: thanks! I've got one more fretless 6 in the planning stages and a regular guitar in progress. At that point I should be 100% done (if not... just broke!)

http://www.benaventeguitars.com

the next 6 string fretless is to be a bolt on neck SCB. I'm working with the wood supplier on some killer sapwood & figured Bubinga for the top and fingerboard (wenge neck and butternut body). It's to be a uniquely different voice then my main fretless.

the guitar will be a His 2k-DC style with mahogany neck and body with an ebony fingerboard. Bound and with abalone block inlays... stained in a faded reddish brown.

:smoke:

[Rockmonton]

anything with strings mang, as for style, i'm a real blues/psychobilly/surf player, but anything with a good melody is fair game! equipment, mainly my westone, i'm looking for a good solid cheap bass head. and for guitar a YGL-3A through an ACOUSTIC cab, i love the sound of the acoustic cabs......

[Filmboydoug]

hey Valveman, what of trumpet do you play?

[jpciii]

I play jazz saxophone... mostly tenor, then baritone... sometimes alto. I even get paid money to do it sometimes too! It was a "career" for about 8 years (I survived), but now I am a computer science major in school. I had enough of the "poor musician" routine.

[valveman]

hey Valveman, what of trumpet do you play?
Well my current trumpet is a yamaha YTR1320ES (Sounds like a motorbike :scratch2: )

Had it for 10 or 11 years, bought it for £300, when I started doing my GCSE music at secondary school, this replaced an H&M student trumpet that cost £50 in '89 when I started to play.
Not played it much the last 6 years, but have just started to play it again, and I really want a B&H trumpet now.

Piccy below

I play jazz saxophone... mostly tenor, then baritone... sometimes alto. I even get payed money to do it sometimes too! It was a "career" for about 8 years (I survived), but now I am a computer science major in school. I had enough of the "poor musician" routine.

I like the pics, as I said in earlier posts, I'm going to learn the sax as well, what would you suggest is the better one to start with, Alto or Tenor?
I'm sure you'll agree there is something about trumpet and Sax that I really like, maybe just the look of them :D

[jdrum1]

jpciii, To be a musician in Terre Haute: Land of 1,000 AC/DC cover bands.....

[James Hart]

I'm going to learn the sax as well, what would you suggest is the better one to start with, Alto or Tenor?


the mechanics are similar. I prefered alto to tenor when I played.

I'm currently thinking of taking up either the mandolin and/or the flute myself.

[jpciii]

valveman,
The fingerings are the same. Everything between your gut and your lips is what differs. Alto is the least expensive one to buy and is a nice size for youngsters, thus it is the most popular one for beginners. However, I would suggest tenor for you. Mostly because it is pitched in B-flat like your trumpet. A close second...you don't need as much strength in your lips. As long as you have plenty of hot air, its easier to get a decent tone on tenor... its more forgiving. Getting a pleasing, not-shrill sound on alto takes years of work and most sax players never attain that. I suspect that the jazz sax that you are hearing on recordings is mostly tenor... its the most popular. Also, tenor looks really cool. :thmbsp:

jdrum1,
If someone detonated an atomic bomb on Terre Haute, it would be a nicer town to live in afterwards.

[pjweeks]

Hi, my name is Peter and I'm a music-holic.

It all started with trombone. Then bass. Then guitar. Then piano when my parents took away the guitar. Then electric guitar. Then mandolin.
I'm always learning.

Some day I aspire to play flamenco--it is so awesome, if you haven't seen someone play flamenco, I'd nearly say you haven't seen guitar, if you're into acoustic at all whatsoever. At the moment that dream is far, far away.

Here's my "family":
Conn 88h trombone (although I prefer bass trombones)
Casio junk-o-matic-better-than-nothing keyboard
Squier Precision Bass 5string
Generic-just-for-fun-and-because-I-listen-to-Nickel-Creek Mandolin
Squier Fat Strat
Taylor Big Baby

And, yes I'm attending all the apropriate music-holic meetings.

[DaWoofer]

Gibson Invader and Marshall Tube Combo
9-Piece Maple Ludwig/Ziljion

[foetusized]

jdrum1,
If someone detonated an atomic bomb on Terre Haute, it would be a nicer town to live in afterwards.Ever seen Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid? Terre Haute is the only town destroyed by the bombs at the end. Martin's character's response is "Damn, they were just about to get a public library" -- Foe (former Rose-Hulman student and WMHD DJ)

[jpciii]

wow, Foe. I didn't know that about that movie.

One question: Why doesn't WMHD broadcast is stereo?

[foetusized]

WMHD broadcast in stereo when I was there in the 1980s, back when we were "Terre Haute's Music Alternative" and before all the monkey crap. We had the transmitter next door to our broadcast studio in the basement of BSB Hall (a dormitory) and the tower on the roof. 150 million microwatts of raw, unadulterated power.

It is my understanding that WMHD has a new transmitter located at someone else's tower over in West Terre Haute, WPFR's tower if I recall correctly. I was not aware that the new transmitter was not stereo. I have heard that WMHD's signal range is much better now, partly because WISU's crappy old transmitter and tower were replaced. The old one bled all across the dial; there were places on Indiana State's campus where WISU was the only station one could tune in. I think WMHD's power was increased too; when I was there TV channel 4 in Indianapolis was preventing any ed-band station in the state from getting a power increase -- Foe (who also played bari sax in RHIT's pep band, to try to drag this back on topic)

[BeerCan]

I play bass and keys. lately I sold 2 of my basses to buy a new keyboard. So now I have a GEM Promega keyboard and a Dean JB signature bass and a Eden metro amp. I also have some assorted percussion items and a cheaper epiphone acoustic 6 string.
http://www.oncologyplus.com/images/promega.jpg
http://www.oncologyplus.com/images/dean.jpg

[Rockmonton]

thats a pretty sweet looking bass too!

[BeerCan]

Yeah I like that bass. I had a Ric and a fender P but I sold them and kept that one. Tonaly it is way more flexible than the others I had. It is a Jeff Berlin signature model.

A little history on the Bass. I was a student at Jeff Berlin's school and at the time he had a relationship with dean. I got to go to the Dean HQ and pick my bass from the stock they had. Had the factory rep set it up in front of my eyes. Had Jeff play it just because I could. All in all a very godd/flexible bass.

[bachplayer]

I play Trombone professionally, albeit on a free lance basis. I play with a number of bands and manage to keep pretty busy most of the time.

Also, I play guitar (as a songwriting tool - also for stress release!). I own one acoustic and an elactric.

1) a Yamaha FG110 acoustic (00 sized guitar). Sweet player, but I need to lower the action.

2) a 1978 Ibanez Artist model 2630 (copy of a Gibson 335). An extremely nice example of Japanese craftsmanship from the late '70s. I love this guitar! I found it in a pawn shop (with original HSC with the key still in the envelope!) for $500. I pair it with a Roland Jazz Chorus 120.

I also play piano, mostly for arranging and composition.

[pbda]

"Singing" should be an option. The voice is an instrument!

[Beanies&Grapes]

Well, Wendy (the wife) and I both sing.. strictly classical... I play piano and trombome. Wendy plays flute/piccolo, french horn, trumpet, baritone.

Our son plays trumpet at the moment and the poor kid tries hard to sing, but he really needs to stick with the trumpet. :P

[Frank123]

I am an exceptionally gifted guitarist / pianist and you may recall me playing alongside 'Queen' in 1986 at the old Wembley Stadium in London England.

BRINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG !!!! Damn alarm clock woke me up!

Ah, well.. Ok, so I do play a bit, on guitar and piano, but have to stress I am not that good. However, I love it! Influences include Beatles, Simon & Garf, Dire Straits, Queen, Pink Floyd, etc. Musical styles are basically everything except for Jazz and Rap. (No offence to fans of the genres.)

Instruments are as follows:
Pianos -
Bechstein Upright (Built 1912)
Roland RD500 Digital (1995)

Guitars:
Eko Ranger XII - 12 String Acoustic (Sunburst) (1978)
Eko Ranger XII - 12 String Acoustic (Black) (1992)
Rose Morris 'Avon' - Les Paul Copy (1975)
Rose Morris 'Avon' - Gibson SG Bass Copy (Short Neck) (1979)
Squier SQ 'Fender' Stratocaster (1984)
Ibanez - George Benson 'Gold' (Pre GB10 & GB20) (1985)

I record my burblings with a Tascam 244 and listen to them in the car, so as not to inflict my pain on others!

Cheers All!

[schoolboy]

Piano (and all sorts of other keyboards); Trumpet and some other brass; a smattering of anything else that makes noise (drums, bass, guitar, anything!). I sing like buffalo farts. I have about as many musical instruments as I have audio gear (lots).

[yamahammer]

timpani

[schoolboy]

timpani
So you are one of the army of players on that Berlioz Requiem SACD I just got?

Seriously, tympani?

[Celt]

I've played bass for over 30 years. Have been in a few bands and have done some recording. Had a '57 Fender Precision and a '71 Fender Bassman amp for many years. Mate of mine bought both from me. I replaced them with a homemade bass which can be viewed here: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25538

[Micropassatman]

Well...I guess I'll chime in, too.

Bass and drums. Fiddle with guitar, too. But they all fall short of my ability as a vocalist. Definitely a singer.

Still have a Fender P-Lyte and a '72 Mustang(my first) w/EMG's. Played through a Mesa Boogie 4X10 + 1X15 (separate cabs). Driven by a Peavey MarkVI 400watt bass head. I also have a Fender acoustic 6 string guitar, and a mid-eighties Charvel electric.

[drumwagon]

As you can guess from the name drums, (and a little guitar)

I have three main drum sets I use, depending on the situation:

4 piece, very traditional Yamaha set

A hybrid hand drum/electronic set (I use this in an acoustic trio) Gilbrator rack with Dejembe, bongos, and 6 triggers connected to a Alesis DM4. This is the set I use the most.

Very small 4 piece set, 16" kick (made from a floor tom, sounds surprisingly deep)

[vintage-yungin]

heres what i play with the old cymbals

[jimbecky48001]

I started playing guitar in high school and had not really picked it back up until around 1994 when I bought this.I just recently pulled this out of the closet and am having so much fun with it ,I think i am going to buy an Ovation to sit with it.

[Micropassatman]

Nice Les Paul! Custom? What finish is that? It's beauti-licious!

[jimbecky48001]

It is a wine red Gibson Les Paul Studio

[Vitavox]

Let me throw in another vote for staying in Orchestra. It will help you make better music, whatever kind that turns out to be. Besides, its far easier to charm the babes with a viola that a bass. (Or aset of drumsin y case.) And, the drummers and bass players usually haul the PA, too. Trust me on this one. :cry:

[jfzea]

I'm an amateur bass player, I like blues, jazz-rock and rock.
I have a Yamaha bass RBX270J and a little 20W Yamaha amplifier, enough for my room.
I like the improvisation - that´s why when I make this I have to use my headphones.

[GibsonLesPaul]

Guitar... :} My main axe '75 Gibson Les Paul Tobacco 'burst finish. I also have a Carvin
DC-127 that I retrofitted w/ a Gibson 490 in the neck and Duncan Pearly Gates in the bridge. That guitar just screams!!!! I highly recommend the Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickup. Very sweet and nicely sustains.
Recently bought a Fender Strat off ebay. Very sweet. Love all styles-blues, jazz and
everything in between. Been playing since '75. Still just a hobby though.
Have two acoustics- alot of fun. Wish I played more. Time management- :sigh:

[clint e.]

My main instrument are vocals.I have a shure SM58 from the 80's.
My second one are Bass.I have a Fender P-Bass from the 80's and an old Ibanez from the 70's.
For amplification i have a Trace Elliot bass amp.
I play a little, Spanish Guitar too,of course.An Alhambra P5.

clint.

[GibsonLesPaul]

It'd be cool to start an AK band! So many people play. Wish there was away to
swap musical ideas; co-write a song or something.... :scratch2:

[WildWest]

Been playing guitar since I gave up the Alto Sax at about 15. Like many kids, thought I was gonna be a rock star but after playing the night clubs and college parties up until I was around 21 or so, I realized I was starving to death and going no where so I went out and got a real job. I still play from time to time though. The '59 Stratocaster on the wall used to belong to Dennis Rose of the Centurians. You can hear their music in the movie Pulp fiction.

[clint e.]

I have a site for my band,if you guys have some time take a look,go to :

www.soundclick.com/pro/?BandID=215566&content=music

and then go to "Artist main page" to hear the songs.

I'd like to hear some opinions.

clint.

[Balthazarr]

Played guitar forever, then I broke my left wrist about 7 years ago.
Completely changed my life.
They weren't able to set it properly so now I play in some discomfort when I do play.
I think I picked up two or three times this summer.
I have a Gibson J-45 Deluxe and I gave up my '72 Natural Strat and bought an Epiphone 335 Dot copy.
Big mistake.
Doesn't sound or play anything like my old 335, but I wanted a change without plonking down 2 G's or more.
I have my Peavey Classic 50 with 4 tens and several keybds (Korg mono-poly synth)
Years since I played drums and my flute sits in a case.
Sometimes I just feel like selling it all, but I can't.

[mike hatt]

used to play drums, put them away cause i live in an apartment now. Now i use a yamaha motif se6 keyboard to record and produce, its fun, but doesn't pay well. I'd share some crations but i don't have a server right now to link you guys too.

[Bogframe]

Here's what I have left since selling off my Epiphone Les Paul and Strat Squier due to creeping arthritis.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/Bogframe/setup.jpg
from top: Yamaha PSR-180 keyboard
Yamaha PSS-680
Jay Turser "Gibsonesque" I bought in a Florida pawnshop
Amps: Crate Vintage Club Series
Baldwin Professional
Fender Frontman
Foot pedals: Vox wah-wah
Boss CS-3 compression sustainer

[bellavoce]

First band formed Christmas Day 1964, i was 12 years old. Got a Melody bass guitar and Kay bass amp that morning, was learning first song with the band by noon that day. IT WAS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE! My heart pounds every time i pull up that old memory. We played every spare minute we could and never got tired of it. WE wouldn't quit till someone made us. WE got better fast and turned PROFESSIONAL a few months later WOW! ha ha ha.
40 years and a lot of bands and guitars later i'm think'n about the stuff. Here's a list of most of the main stuff i can remember.Close to the order i had it.
1965 Fender Bassman,1962 Gibson EB-O bass, '61??Guild Cordoba archtop elec.
(1st great guitar) 1953 Fender Esquire,1962 Fender Telecster,1962 Stratocaster,1954 Gibson Les Paul,1961 Gibson SG Les Paul Custom,1967 FenderTelecaster,1958 Gibson 335,1960 Fender Precision Bass,1969? Mosrite Joe Maphis bass,1954 Gibson Les Paul Jr.,1956 Gibson Les Paul Jr.,1962Gibson SG Jr. 1963 Gibson SG Jr.1963 Gibson SG Special,1960 Rickenbacker amp (1)15"speaker1969? Purple Marshall Major 200 watt head(from Led Zepplin tour,blew-up roadie sold for $50.00), (2) Marshall 4x12 cab.,1969 Plush 100 watt tube tuck'n roll amp,1971 Fender precision Bass,1968 Fender Telecaster Bass,1971 Plush 150watt tube amp w/18" Folded Horn,1965 Fener showman head, (2)sm.Fender Bassman Cabs. w/ 15" JBL spk.,1970 Gretsch Tennesean, 1969 Gibson Les Paul Custom, 1972 Gibson Les Paul Standard,1957 Fender Stratocaster,1961 Gibson SG Les Paul,1958 Fender Stratocaster, 1967 Fender Telecaster Custom,1957 Gretsch Rock Jet, 1968 Martin D-28, 1969 MartinD-28,1951 Fender No-Caster, 1932 Natioal Doulian Round Neck Steel Body Guitar,1949 Fender Dual Professional Twin-8 string steel guitar,1967 Fender Deluxe w/Bassman Output stage (2) 10"s., 1975 Marshall 2-12" 50watt combo,1968 Fender Twin,1972 Gibson 335, Rickenbacker Ma-8, 1952 Gibson Les Paul,1953 Gibson Les Paul, 1970 Gibson 335, 1969? Fender Bigsby Telecaster,1973? Gibson Flying V,1959 Fender Tweed Deluxe,1970 ? Fender Pedal Steel,196? Gibson Hummingbird,195? Gibson C-100 Flattop cutaway electric, 1961 Fender Stratocaster, 1959 Fender 4X10 Bassman, 1971? Fender Thinline Telecaster, 1983 Fender '52 Telecaster Reissue, 1972 Marshall 4X12,
1975? Fender Pro Reverb,1963 Fender white Bassman Head, 1965 Fender Tremolux Head, 1964 Fender Princeton Transition model Black w/ white knobs,
1963 Fender white Bassman w/ 2X12 cab, Marshall 4X12 (Red early custom color w/ cane grill),1968 Fender Deluxe Reverb, 1972 Fender Deluxe Reverb, 1970 Leslie Model 18, 1972 Leslie Model 16 (like Fender Vibrotones), Sovtek Mig-50, Fender '63 Vibrotone Reissue,1983 Fender Champ 12, 198? Fender Super champ, SWR 400 bass head, Ampeg SVT 4X10 cab.,Marshall Mg-15
1966 Fender Super Reverb, Fender Rhoades 88, Hammond M-100, Leslie 147, 1968 Vox Viscount 2X12 combo, 1967 Vox Super Beatle, 2005 Vox Valvetronix SE, 1952 Gibson SJ, 1952 Gibson ES-150, 1963 Epiphone Zenith, 2001 Epiphone Zypher Blues Deluxe? (ES-5 reissue).

*Current main axe (old bastard) Fender ash body Stratocaster.DiMarzio Virtual vintage PUs. Oddball cheap bridge assembliy,and a 1956 TELECASTER NECK I GOT OUT OF THE TRASH behind the old music store as a kid. I've used it on several of the Strats and Tele's over the years. I'm using my 1966 Fender Super Reverb that is just sounding Fantastic now! I've had it 6 years but never really liked the way it sounded.Something good happened ??? I was running (2) Fender Deluxe Reverbs and Stereo FX and that rig gets a sound that sounds so sweet that it really pisses off a lot a guys,but the super Reverb is really turn'n my crank these days.I run a little boost in front just a hint of echo delay and the onboard spring reverb.
I say that the top end sings like Patti LaBelle or Mahalia Jackson and then i can reach down and the low strings are big and round sounding like hit'n the big strings on a Bosendorfer grand with a ballpeen hammer. Man i'm lovin it!
bellavoce

[Rockmonton]

WOW is any of that broken stuff you'd want to sell to a budding amp tech kid to fix up? ;) ;)

i'm going to have to make a revised list of all my gear real soon as i am hoping to pick up a 1967 jmp 50 tonight with a 4-12 cab!

[bellavoce]

Please forgive my over indulgence. It was late at night i'd had a little too much vino and was reminising. But once i got started i just kept going. A couple corrections....'63 vibroverb reissue. Not a '63 vibrotone reissue. I forget the other corrections?
To answer Rockmonton...With over 40 years of playing and loving this stuff as a Po'Boy, i'm thrilled at having been able to have hung on to any of it. But i still have a nice little stack of it. Pease understand that only a few pieces were ever bought new. Most were involved in trades (+) or (-) cash.
The thing i have taken the most pride in is that i could always feel or sence the voice of these pieces before i ever heard them.(Thus...the BEAUTIFUL VOICE or the "BELLA VOCE". Like some people can see the aura of something...i would feel it. I'd also swear that some peices will themselves to certain people...Well enough of that supernatural bologna.
I still have "Barbie" a 1961 Pink Sratocaster, sounds even better than it looks and it looks Bella!..Bella! ,my "ol'Bastard" an old ash strat body with a sonic blue to surf green looking finish,Dimarzio virtual vintage PUs and most importantly an old 1956 Telecaster neck. "The Grail" a 1952(first year) Gibson Les Paul Gold Top converted to a 1958 Gold Top...the story behind this guitar is one of those supernatural ones and too long to tell here... now. A 1952 Gibson SJ Southern Jumbo flat top. A 1952 Gibson ES-150 archtop elec. An 1963 Epiphone Zenith archtop. A couple of old Harmony archtops i'm repairing. An old Fender circa 1949-'51? Dual Professinal twin 8 string neck steel guitar. And my bass is a 1969 Fender Jazz Bass.
My current amps include a 1966 Fender Super Reverb, (2) Fender Deluxe Reverbs '68 & '72 with modified parrallel FX loops set up to run in stereo. (2)1963 (white knob) Fender Bassmans (1 white & 1 black) with celestion speakers. A 1976? Marshall 2X12 50 watt combo. A 1971? Marshall 4X12 angled cab. A 1969? Red Marshall 4X12 straight cab. A 1965 Fender Tremolux head,197? Fender Pro Reverb, 193? Gebs amp with the oldest 12" Lansing speaker i've ever seen! A Reissue '63 Fender Vibroverb. A 1983 Fender Champ 12.A Fender Super Champ. An SWR 400 bass amp with an old Ampeg SVT 4X10 cab. Annnnndddddd...my favorite amp a 1957?'58?'59??? beat up old Fender Tweed Deluxe that just won't quit! NONE OF THESE ARE CURRENTLY FOR SALE.
I am SELLING a Leslie 16 and a Leslie 18 (Exactly same as Fender Vibrotone) except that the Model 18 has a 12" speaker instead of a 10". And a VOX Valvetronix Sound Lab SE a very impressive tube/digital,amp/spkr modeling + digital effects...for live or studio. This thing is great for recording! But alas to complicated for an old fart like me. Oh,oh,i almost forgot i'm selling an old set of Slingerland Radio King Drums.I think they are late 1950's. They have a black oval badge says Slingerland Quality Drums Chicago,Ill. USA. It's a 4 piece origial set all match. The rims have Slingerland Radio King engraved or stamped on them in very cool script writing.They are gold sparkle. I'm putting this stuff on ebay as soon as my son can help me . I don't have a digital camera and am not very knowlegeable about computers or selling on ebay.
bellavoce

[Rockmonton]

hey that slingerland sounds cool, i'm actually getting into restoration and repair fairly big now adays, so i was asking about broken stuff for that reason, but man, thats one hell of a collection!

[wineslob]

I play (rank beginner) acoustic guitar (Yamaha fg413s) I love watching musicans play Chapman Stick. I first saw Tony Levin play one in 1985 while he was with King Crimson. I find it to be a fascinating instrument.

[Vitavox]

Hifivinyl15:
Here's another vote that you should reconsider staying in orchestra. I played drums in school band into college. I said, I played drums. They all tryed to teach me mallet percussion, tympanies, etc. I was like you, hard-headed. I dispised the others who could site read better than me. I always had to take new music home and work on it for a day or two. (In between sessions with my buddies who played rock.) But, then, back at school, natural talent would carry me to the 1st chair. Even as I was fighting learniong something about real music, it rubbed off, somehow. I was able to use what I learned dispite myself in colleg and beyond to become a pretty successful percusionist for stage shows. Paid for my college, and all my fun along the way. Who knew I'd need that "music" crap? I just wanted to play drums! OK, sarcasm aside, listen to these tomes from age and experience. Be the best player in your orchestra, and play bass and guitar in the meantime for fun. It may all come together for you in an unexpected way.
V

[bentpencil]

All you guys with all that fancy stuff!!!! I've read all 5 pages of this thread, and nobody has even mentioned the instrument of choice for the poor country folk who couldn't afford those fancy instruments. It is commonly known as a "Flume". You take a piece of hair from a horse's tail, stretch it across a pig's a$$, and pluck it with your teeth. Now that's real music.

[WhiskeyRebel]

Sounds like a flume is fer rich folk who has a hoss and besides kin afford to keep a pig past butcherin' time, just so's to have an instry-ment to play upon. Two nails and a piece of balin-wire along the side a the shed and you got a diddly bow. Which don't consume no corn over winter.

Seriously, I'm glad to hear my musical experience is not unique. I was first chair trombone in school but I could never sightread to save my life and always had to learn my pieces slowly and play from memory. My big mistake was learning guitar from tablature and never applying my previous knowledge of staff notation to it.

[bentpencil]

Sis played the diddly bow ifn she were'nt playin squat tag in the cucumber patch with the neighbor who owned the horse and the pig.

I took accordion lessons for about 8 monthes when I was a kid because my dad played one. In 6th grade, the school band needed another trombone, and it got me out of class, so I took it. Sat first chair, too, the whole time, but wouldn't learn to read the music either. In high school, band interfered with Spanish, so that went down the road. Picked up an autoharp in 1967, taught myself how to play, bought an electric one a year later, and it's always been a favorite of mine. I only wish I had been given a decent singing voice.

[technut]

I have been playing guitar on and off since high school, been in a few garage bands here and there, you know the kind that plays at your friends party in the backyard. I am an average player but can't sing worth a damn, nowdays I play a fender strat deluxe(usa) and a ovation celebrity. I've got a little music studio in the basement with a 16ch mixer, some effects an a ADAT and a computer for recording. It's a great way to get some time to myself from the wife and kids! :thmbsp:

[alwayslooking]

Since being a Tull fan since I was 13 I got a flute for Christmas (33 years later) 2 years ago. Have never taken any lessons but just fooling around is fun and relaxing- and a good excuse to crank a Tull LP :thmbsp:

[Infinitoid]

Saw my high school marching band when I was 5 and knew then that one day I'd be in it. Got my first horn when I was 11 and never looked back. Euphonium is the name (baritone horn for the unwashed). It's taken me all over the world. My avatar shows what I'm playing now, a Willson 2975 4-valve compensating model. Killer horn. Only wish I could play now like in 1975.

Greg

[pioneer54]

i play guitar- also played the bagpipes in a junior pipe band baci in the late 60's. still own the pipes but haven't played them in many years.

[Infinitoid]

I have no idea how many times I've said to myself "Gotta learn to play bagpipes". I remember looking out my apartment window 30 years ago and my neighbor lady was out there in the courtyard dressed in kilts with her little Scottie terrier just blowin' up a storm with her pipes. God, makes me misty-eyed even now. What a trip!

[truetone36]

I've played guitar since I was 12 (24 1/2 years). Still play what I learned on, a '53 Harmony archtop electric and a late '50's Silvertone amp.


Dumont-First with the finest in television.

[Ampzilla]

Struggle with piano with 2 yrs. lessons, sing (why I chose piano). Piano is hard and never took lessons in school. I have perfect pitch or I would give up entilrely. Was able to learn music enough to write 1 song. Love trumpet and sax. I'm sure that learning those are a lot harder than they look too. I love to listen to trumpeters Ray Anthony, Chet Baker, Sweets Edison, Al Hirt.

[vintage-yungin]

Been playin drums for 6 years and i just picked up the bass on christmas.

[AudioAddict]

I play guitar and have been for going on 30 years , I started playing piano and synth about 10 years ago (Just bought an Alesis QS6.2 Synth)
I currently own a Strat and an Epiphone G-400 SG....If'n ya wanna check out my playin goto www.myspace.com/daneary, check out the "live solo" or "Cherokee Dance for 5 guitars" see ya AudioAddict

[HIFIVINYL15]

Just figured I would update the post i made last year (on page 1) about quitting the viola and picking up bass guitar. I dropped the orchestra class and have been taking bass guitar lessons 30 minutes a week for probably 2-3 months, and am having a blast. We've covered the lower end of the fretboard, and octaves, and some of the other stuff I already learned in orchestra on the viola. We are now progressing onto rests, 8th notes, again, all the stuff I already know from the viola, just on the bass instead. So it should go pretty quick. The only things that took awhile was reading bass clef, learning what the notes are, and getting the finger motions down. Right now im into blues cuz its pretty slow, and i can pick it up pretty easy (oh, and it ROCKS).

[Fisher-Dave]

I give my sons guitar a try now and then,so far Smoke on the water is far as my talent has gone though.He is now 12 and makes it seem so easy,after two tears of lessons I bought him a Crate fifteen hundred head unit and a Crate cab with four twelves.Some of the tunes he has made up really put a smile on my face,I wish him the best with his hobby.My daughter takes drum lessons and she is now ten.I fool with her drumset some two,just making noise,so far for me noise is about it.The kids make it look easy,getting a kick out of me.My daughter showed me how to do a killer drum roll though. :D

[Piobaireachd]

I play the bagpipes in a local pipes and drums band.

[jt1stcav]

I play keyboards...very little piano, mostly organ. I only play by ear; I learned to read music so I can sight read and understand the music printed before me, but I have no eye/hand coordination, so playing what's printed is virtually impossible for me. Plus I never learned proper fingering techniques so I can't play chords properly since I never use my pinkies! But it's all good...it's just my hobby and only for fun. I'd never be able to play professionally anyway.

See the link below for the organ my dad built...it's not your father's Hammond!

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=69450

[kenwood61]

The poll won't let me vote for more than one :no:

So here's my current favorites in order of preference:

Irish Whistle (since Aug 04)
Mandolin (since Feb 06)
Keyboard/Piano (since first grade with a hiatus between 79-97)
Harmonica (haphazardly for a few months)

[birddog]

I play a mean Pringles can! After a few drinks, a well tuned Pringles can sounds like a really nice set of Bongo's!!!

[cosmicdust]

Hiya Guys,

The guitar caught me in 79' and it's still on me back like a strange hump. It will probably not let go. I play the lead guitar and in many bands in various places. Me wife plays the piano. I do not have a band now. There is John Hosay, who lives 10 miles West, who comes for dinner with his wife and he brings his guitar. So we play some :-)

Today; I write songs and compose solos.
cosmicdust.

[AudioKeith]

Gretsch Drums and Zildjian Cymbals

[Estring]

I play guitar. Been playing and recording for about 33 years. Boy my arms are tired!

[macthis]

Drums. Tama Zildian Sabian I'm no pro but I entertain myself.

[carjulreyes]

Been playing for close to 30 years. I had actual piano and saxophone lessons in grade school until high school. Everything else, I pretty much picked up messing around in different bands and trying to make original music.

In the order of proficiency:
1) piano/keyboards
2) bass guitar
3) guitar
4) drum (set)
5) sax
6) percussion (congas/djembe)
7) anything else I can get my hands on.

[Paul C]

As per the avatar, I play soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophones. Also clarinets, and woodwind repair. I am a consultant for some of the manufacturers and have a number of articles on the web. Also, I compose/arrange, and publish about 150 pieces for saxophone quartet, quintet, sextet.

This is me: www.lasax.com

[jpciii]

For those of you who don't know, Paul C is very respected and well known throughout the saxophone community.

C'mon, Paul... show some pics of the collection.

[nuclearchildren]

I play 'at' a Hagstrom III electric and Hammond L100 organ...
KRH
Houston

[Paul C]

jpciii, thank you for the kind words.

Too many photos. Where to start?

[KB9KXH]

Ive been playing guitar continously since christmas morning 1966. my favorite guitar is my Kazuo Yairi cy116 classical but i also play electric and 12 string acoustic from time to time. i like jazz,rock,new age, indian, and some classical.

[Analogdino]

Hi, AKers,
I play a stage piano, an 88-key keyboard with sampled grand piano sound of CD quality. It's a model PRO1 "Realpiano" by General Music. Keyboard mechanics are by Fatar (Italian, I think.) I play mostly classical, also some pop stuff by Abba that has reasonable key signatures (equal or fewer than 3 sharps or flats!) - "Abba Gold" is a good music book and there is a CD of the same name. BTW, I am a returning piano student from 45 years ago, so it's a bit challenging!

I use a vintage Sherwood S402CP stereo amplifier feeding two vintage Ditton 15 speakers, plus a 12 inch, 200 watt subwoofer (lowest piano tone is 27.5 Hz, quite demanding but there's really not much energy down there, even in a 9 foot concert grand.) A MIDI connection to an old PC completes the system. It complements the vintage audio hobby quite well.

The bad news is that General Music seems to have lost out to Yamaha and Roland in the keyboard stakes in North America, so any info about service in Canada would be gratefully received. As an engineer, I can do electronic and simple mechanical maintenance myself but I have no schematics. Any serious tech info out there on the PRO1? Feel free to email me directly. Many thanks.
Cheers,
Roger

PS Ditton 15's recently (November 2006) switched to floor standing Paisley speakers (model not known!)
Still no info on the PRO1 keyboard (other than my manual.)

[tim in pa]

not well at any, but, play the arai 5 string banjo in clawhammer, selmer trumpet, alvarez yari 6 string guitar, and the harmonica. wish i had a fiddle....

[45man]

I started out playing classical piano but now play classical pipe organ. Have a church job as the music director so I can pretty much play whatever I want. Do stick mainly to classical as this is an older congregation.

45man

[Dusty Chalk]

I don't know if I've answered this thread already or not, but:

Pianist, aye. And many many synthesizers.

[Gordy Smiff]

Rhythm guitar. Bass guitar. Drums. Keyboards.

Epiphone Sheraton.

Gordon Smith G60.

Yamaha Pacifica.

Yamaha Acoustic.

Ozark Resonator.

Fender Jazz Bass.

Peavey International 2 drum kit.

Roland Juno D keyboard.

[Guitar_Zan]

I play an electric guitar. Have been for only two years now. I'm only 13 and I think starting kinda early will help me out alot. Got a Squire Strat guitar. Also have an acoustic but don't play it too often. ot a California bass guitar that I play but not as much as the electric. As far as making my own music there is only a few things that i've made,but nothing big. It passes time and I enjoy doing it so I think I'm gonna try and stick to it.:guitar:

[Urizen]

I voted long ago, but never posted.:scratch2:

A pic of my electric rig.:guitar:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k199/Urizen_2006/gsetup1.jpg

[Guitar_Zan]

That's a nice rig man. Probably pretty expensive. I like your guitars,they're nice. Probably LOUD too.:D

[wineslob]

For those of you who don't know, Paul C is very respected and well known throughout the saxophone community.

C'mon, Paul... show some pics of the collection.

I heard he blows



















I could-not-help-myself! :D

[Robert Gift]

Pipe organ.
Love J.S. Bach and Max Reger.
Also play chime and carillon (tower bells)
Chime is 8 to 22 bells, carillon 23 or more.
Electronic organs are great for practicing. Little power, take up little space.

[Carson]

Dums, started playing when I was 12, great way to make noise and piss off the parents :D

[Carson]

Now it just pisses off the wife (WAF) 0!!

[Pilot]

Piano, keyboards, clarinet, flute and trumpet. Robert, nice to see someone who likes Reger. One of my desert island discs is Reger's Orchestral Serenade, op. 95.

Bryan

[mrz80]

I play guitar and sound board :-)

[gearhound]

I have been playing acoustic & electric guitar since 1967.
My father has been playing harmonica for over 70 years!!

Steve

[Robert Gift]

Piano, keyboards, clarinet, flute and trumpet. Robert, nice to see someone who likes Reger. One of my desert island discs is Reger's Orchestral Serenade, op. 95. BryanSorry it took so long to get back to you, Bryan. I'll have to go hear that one, now - if I can find it.
Reger's orchestra works were more difficult for me to like at first.
His large organ works are my favorite. As an organist, I am overwhelemed by them. They are so difficult to play. I used to complain that it really requires two to play them! Thank you,

[jt1stcav]

It's nice to know there are other organists like 45man and Robert Gift on this forum that love the pipe organ and its music as much as I do...for a while I thought I was the only one. Unlike them, though, I do not have the hand/eye coordination to be able to play the compositions I can read from sheet music (that really sucks for me), so I only play a very limited amount of music by ear (usual simplified church hymns and Christmas carols). I wish I could play serious works like those by Reger (like his Benedictus and Toccata in D Minor), but that'll never happen. An organ virtuoso I'll never be...

Should've taken lesson when I was a kid...

[Robert Gift]

The mental illness of loving organ music usually does not reveal itself until late teens. So not many have the advantage of beginning organ at a young age.
Nonetheless, you can still develop independence of hands and feet.
It does not require quick acquisition of speed and eye/hand coordination as many electronic games do.
You can slowly learn one hand, and then the other, then put them together.
Then learn pedal. Then put pedal together with left hand, then pedal with right hand.
The pedal will help tie all together!

Funny. In these hottest days of July, I have been playing Christmas Carols!

Bach, with his separate musical lines, is easier to for me to play than hymns!
Max Reger, I have concluded, started with a black page and removed ink to reveal his finished complex compositions.
I don't like his Benedictus. I love his giant works; Choral Fantasy and Fugues, etc. I especially love his complex fugues.
Now trying to learn his monumental Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue. (Maybe I'll accomplish that in 20 years!)
Just start out slow and simple and build upon that. Once you develop accuracy you can work on speed.

[jt1stcav]

My "illness" bagan way before my teens since I grew up with organ music throughout my childhood. I didn't really begin listening to what's now considered classic rock until my teens back in the '70s, but I've known works by Bach, Franck, Widor, Liszt, and Vierne way before then! But I was an artist and was always drawing as a kid, so music lessons were the last thing on my mind (and then girls occupied the remainder of my time)!

No, I've later tried to learn the proper fingering techniques but to no avail. Like playing sports, I've always lacked the proper coordination skills needed to successfully play the instrument. Granted, I can play the pedal parts with my feet while playing with both hands, but I've always had to watch my feet which is quite annoying to me! Even with all the electronic organs we've had in the house (to later include the 19 rank residence pipe organ my dad built and installed in our house back in the '80s...now sold), I always had organs to practice on. I'm just not cut out to be a professional musician, and now at 44 it'll never happen. I have tried to emulate the romantic playing style of the late Dr. Virgil Fox in the hymns I've played over the years...as long as it's a slow moving piece, I can get the idea across (heh)...but I'm no Virgil by any stretch of the imagination!

The pipe organ had a homemade MIDI playback system my dad configured back in '83 so that music he and I uploaded one note at a time into the DOS computer/sequencer could be played back accurately as the composer intended on the organ. Since neither my dad and I can play what's written on the sheet music, and we couldn't afford to have professional organists play a recital every time we wanted to record the organ, the MIDI computer playback setup worked out flawlessly; the only downside was it literally took weeks to transfer, arrange, edit, and complete a single prelude and fugue since we were reading the sheet music and adding it note per note straight on the computer keyboard! But to hear the finished product played back live on the pipe organ sounding as if a live organist was sitting at the console was simply breathtaking! Unfortunantly, the instrument was never professionally recorded before unforseen circumstances forced my dad to sell it last year...what a shame.

BTW, I see you're from Denver...back in '82 I was in the Army assigned to Lowry AFB and I used to attend Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. At that time my dad was employed with the tracker organ manufacturer Klug & Schumacker here in Lakeland, and after the first Mass I attended there I made my way up to the organ loft where that giant Kimball resides and chatted it up with the woman organist (don't recall her name anymore) talking about organs, my dad's work, and my love for the instrument, etc. From that point on for the 12 weeks I was assigned there, I attended every Mass at the cathedral up in the rear gallery alongside the organist and we'd talk about organs and the music afterwards.

I really enjoyed that...

[Robert Gift]

How interesting a story. How did you fit so many ranks in a house?
Would love to have heard your "computer" performances without a single mistake.

Here is the east side of Lowry AFB.

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qmn95967sy7j&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=9401406&encType=1
You can zoom out, view from different angles and move around to see the rest of the base.
It has changed much since it's decommissioning in 1988?
The commissary is now Bonfils Blood Center.

In the middle of the photo is a Federal Signal 2t22 air raid siren.
Yellow object atop 45' pole.

I was able to acquire the siren and set it up at my volunteer fire station.

It produces two tones, a pure or perfect minor third. At top rpm, D5 and F5 which creates a Bb2 resultant! So she howls a Bb - D -F major chord!
Sirens are female. My officers named her Lassie after the woman in Porkies.
(I've never seen the movie.)

[jt1stcav]

That's great how you acquired the siren from Lowry. What a shame the AFB has been closed all these years...hope the city turns that land into something useful (the area where the officer's quarters were located is especially nice IIRC).

The entire 2-car garage was redesigned (with AC ducts installed to regulate temperature) and a permanent wall erected for the organ chamber (just outside this wall was the organ relay, all the power tools, washer/dryer, and a spare fridge). The garage door was permanently sealed and a false wall (with insulation behind it) erected in front of it to keep noise levels near inaudible to those outside. The complete 19 ranks of pipes spoke through the Swell expression shades mounted on the foyer wall and into the formal living room (two swing-out closet doors with tiny slats were used to cover the ugly black swell shades; an actual pipe facade would've looked completely out of place in a small 3 bedroom ranch-style house).

[CUlater]

I played trumpet up through high school, and picked it back up briefly while my oldest played in the school band. My wife and I met in 9th grade band, so playing music was a kinda important event in my life!

[BushmasterM4]

I play all in my studio and do a little recording also. Im new to the recording process but have been playin guitar for a few years. Drums and singing are whats killing me. The kids in the pics are my son on drums and a friend of his on guitar. Its all my equipment. If you look in one of the pics you can see my Sansui 9090db, Polk 10's and a 30 pound Pioneer turntable (PL15 I believe). Click on the Soundclick link to listen to some of the awful stuff I record. :)
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s1/bigwake/DCP_2338.jpg
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http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=695947

[catseye]

Tenor and Alto Sax.

1962 King Super 20 Tenor

1937 Martin Comm II Alto

http://catseyeweb.com/forum/2saxes.jpg

A song (http://www.otgrecords.com/btheory/songs/Pretzel.mp3) from teh band (http://buffalotheoryband.com).

[saxmeister]

I missed this thread for a while. Pretty sweet saxes there. I especially dig the Super 20!