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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDid you or do you still play a musical instrument. Which one or ones.? I played the French Horn. And you?
debm55
(60,705 posts)Dale in Laurel MD
(797 posts)and recorders (sopranino through great bass).
debm55
(60,705 posts)Dale in Laurel MD
(797 posts)I also play (much less proficiently) Appalachian dulcimer and pipe-and-tabor.
debm55
(60,705 posts)Dale in Laurel MD
(797 posts)nt
gopiscrap
(24,735 posts)I have and still sing in churches all over the world and in October of 2024 I recieved a Doctorate of Letters in Sacred Music
debm55
(60,705 posts)Wiz Imp
(10,022 posts)I can also play the Trumpet.
debm55
(60,705 posts)Lessons and instrument were free.
Wiz Imp
(10,022 posts)I was pretty good for a high school kid - I made District Band my Junior year and Regional Band and Regional Orchestra my senior year - but gave it up after high school. Could never afford to own my own French Horn (they were extremely expensive) - used the school owned instruments. I still love music featuring the French Horn, though.
debm55
(60,705 posts)On guitar including training on classical guitar. If I keep playing Ill be almost good in a couple of years.
debm55
(60,705 posts)underpants
(196,536 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)biophile
(1,427 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,742 posts)Any brass instrument was deemed too annoying for parental ear-holes. Drums were RIGHT out.
BBbats
(309 posts)Or Bass Guitar some like to call it.
I was full time professional doing Bass & Vocals for about 35 years. I play regular six string guitar for fun.
I'm retired but still do two to five gigs a month.
SheltieLover
(80,525 posts)I've thought about getting a "real" sounding electric keyboard to rekindle my keyboard skills.
chouchou
(3,148 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)gladium et scutum
(829 posts)since 1962. Now 78 years old, arthritis and COPD have ended my piping days over a decade ago.
debm55
(60,705 posts)hlthe2b
(114,001 posts)She had a really little house with a driveway full of those old time Cadillacs with the wings (
) Three or more. Yes, they were really old cars even then, but she drove them.
You know these types of Caddies:

Though none of them were in that kind of shape.
Oh, and while my sister and I wanted to play some kind music we'd heard of, she wanted to teach us nothing but "boogie woogie". She might have us learn a little classical, but boy did she love her boogie woogie. I remember reaching a compromise for a recital that I played "Girl from Ipanema.." LOL
She was one weird old lady ("Mrs. Franklin" ) I never asked my mother where she found her. I wish I had.
So I was a passable pianist, going on to learn on my own. But no access to a piano for many years.
debm55
(60,705 posts)oberle
(361 posts)in organ and harpsichord. I also play piano, and have played carillon and bagpipes.
debm55
(60,705 posts)Diamond_Dog
(40,602 posts)Dont do either any more! BTW I love the sound of a French horn.
debm55
(60,705 posts)JMCKUSICK
(6,064 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,386 posts)I was forced to take piano lessons, which I reasonably enjoyed except for having to participate in recitals, which I absolutely HATED.(It is my considered opinion now that those are not for the student, but for the teacher. Fight me.) I quit after 6th grade but still played for enjoyment.
From grades 7-9 I played the flute. I enjoyed that reasonably well but after 9th grade I was told that participation in concert band also required participation in marching band. Since I can barely walk and chew gum at the same time, I decided, no thank you very much, and sold my flute. After that I became a choral singer, something I deeply enjoyed and did for 50 years in various choirs.
I also played alto recorder and pennywhistle, strictly for my own enjoyment. Not sure where either of those instruments even are now.
debm55
(60,705 posts)NNadir
(38,084 posts)I was very, very in to it for many years, played semi-professionally, mostly acoustic folk kind of stuff.
debm55
(60,705 posts)Torchlight
(6,832 posts)Band and orchestra nerd from HS and college who dreamed (as a teen) of being 1st chair in the Boston Phil. one day. Pivoted quickly to History in college, but the joy of playing remained. These days, I'm wholly content with being in our little, two stop-lights town's civic orchestra.
debm55
(60,705 posts)sdfernando
(6,085 posts)Started on Alto Sax in Jr. high....then took up Flute in 9th grade...added Clarinet in my late 20s. Still playing and in my mid-60s now.
I'v played in high school and college bands, community bands, community orchestras, big bands/swing bands, ragtime orchestra, saxophone quartets, wind quintets, and various other small groups.
I can play/have played all of the following:
Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute (all in C except Alto Flute which is pitched in G)
Bb Clarinet (my weakest horn)
Eb Alto Sax, Bb Tenor Sax, Eb Baritone Sax (so much fun to play this one), Bb Bass Sax
debm55
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debm55
(60,705 posts)Goonch
(5,069 posts)I eventually hocked it to buy my sweetheart a gold charm bracelet. We married later.
debm55
(60,705 posts)SheltieLover
(80,525 posts)lark
(26,081 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)mysteryowl
(9,315 posts)I am so grateful I learned the flute as a child and I still play today.
debm55
(60,705 posts)mysteryowl
(9,315 posts)I saw a documentary a long time ago about what learning to play an instrument does for a person.
Many benefits!
What instruments do you play?
dickthegrouch
(4,534 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)flute and sing.
sinkingfeeling
(57,838 posts)Gave it away 20 years ago.
debm55
(60,705 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,838 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)skylucy
(4,024 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)justaprogressive
(6,925 posts)but mostly slide guitar

debm55
(60,705 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,871 posts)No musical talent whatsoever
though occasionally I do some drumming
debm55
(60,705 posts)Vinca
(53,999 posts)debm55
(60,705 posts)hamsterjill
(17,582 posts)First chair, All Region Band!!! LOL
But I would rather have been playing with the cute boys!!!
debm55
(60,705 posts)hamsterjill
(17,582 posts)I'm retired now. Maybe I should put that on my "to do" list!
Hope you're having a great night!