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Old January 7, 2004, 17:24   #1
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Musical Instruments
So, how many of you people play a musical instrument of some description? Whats your favourite instrument or which instrument do you most wish to learn, why?

I play the bagpipes, I suppose I'm reasonably decent. I compete in B Grade (Goes: novice, D, C, B, A at the top) and usually do pretty well.

I would like to learn the guiter at some point but only as a hobby kinda thing, nothing serious.

So yeah. (If you want a bagpiper for special functions then I'll do it, as long as you pay air fares and put me up, anywhere would be fine )
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My primary instrument is the saxophone. Also play bagpipes, though I don't have a set of my own anymore (I wasn't particularly good anyway), and a little bass guitar. Also have some training in classical singing (Second Tenor).
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Old January 7, 2004, 17:42   #3
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We own an antique piano and I played that and took lessons for it for about five years, but I don't really play it anymore.
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play piano some, saxophone, clarinet, and my fav... the bassoon.
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Old January 7, 2004, 18:47   #5
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I can't play any instruments very well, but I play with the piano and ocarina. My brother in law plays bagpipes, my brother plays guitar and piano, one of my sisters plays flute and recorder. My favorite instrument is violin, and I want to learn to play it. My grandfather played and built violins.

I sing low bass in a choir that currently has about 40 people, it is usually more like 60. The choir isn't really affiliated with anyone, but it meets at a church (not my denomination). We just started a new rehearsal season last night, we're doing a folk theme, with some Paul Simon stuff among other things. I'll be singing in French for the first time. In the past, we've sung in Latin, Hebrew, and Spanish. We have a spring concert season and a holiday concert season each year. In the past we've done Phantom, the Sound of Music, and Oklahoma. My personal preference of music to sing or to listen to is classical.
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I play drums and percussion with a band of old farts. We don't play any music written later than 1975. Actually had a rehearsal today.
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Percussion isn't a musical instrument, and you know that!!!
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I've played the trumpet for about five years now. Easily my favorite.
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Old January 8, 2004, 00:19   #12
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Hows that going while you mention it? Link me to a catch up thread please. I had a look at that board just the other day and all was farely quiet. So yeah hows it going?
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I used to play piano, but now it's too much trouble to find one. So I just got a guitar. Now I think I'm a rock star.
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I play the piano, but I suck at it. I also play the sax, and I suck less
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You don't suck with the sax, you blow.

I have in the past played the Violin and sung in a choir/taken song lessons, but now all I do is play around with a keyboard and a PC.

My favourite instrument is the 808 drum machine, or real drums or the electric bass.
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bagpipes? Wow...

I play bass guitar, guitar, piano-related instruments (a.k.a. keyboards), mandolin, bouzouki, accordion and kazoo (the instrument)

my favourite instrument is my 5-string bass

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Hows that going while you mention it? Link me to a catch up thread please. I had a look at that board just the other day and all was farely quiet. So yeah hows it going?
I'm not sure if there is a catch up thread but I can fill you in. Dale I guess has been looking for a job combined with the holidays, so very little coding has been done lately and that's pretty much what we need right now. No problem though, I'm sure he'll find one soon and we'll be going strong.

I think (though not sure) that the most recent code has a functional game but many of the menus need to be integrated in. Then comes scripting events (there's gonna be a TON of story in this game), units, music, city stuff, etc etc... so there's a ways to go but I'm still quite optimistic .
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I played the piano for about 10 years.. won a number of local competitions, a few national, and 1 international. Once I left home for college, I lost interest in it.. but I still love piano music (especially piano concerti).
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I didn't compete. I don't need such things to prove myself that I'm good at what I play...
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We should form the Apolyton Off-Topic Pipe and Drum Band !!! hehehehehe...

That would teach the other forums to fear and loath us !

... And we will keep playing until all Off Topic posts are included in our total count !!!

I also play the soprano, alto and tenor recorders and keyboards (an old Korg M1).

I sing professionally.
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I play the tenor saxophone best (Grade 8 - UK grades go from 1 (easiest) to 8 (hardest)). Mostly jazz and blues, but a bit of rock and classical. At the moment doing some interesting improv over solo's to jazz standards, from a book of transcriptions.

I play trumpet ok too (Grade 3, but havne't taken a grade in years). Doing relatively simple things like Haydn's Trumpet Concertos. I can play oboe reasonably, but haven't picked one up in a few months. I used to play clarinet a little too, but my attempts a few weeks ago showed how far I've fallen. I was learning guitar and piano, but have a lot of trouble playing more than one part on the piano. I can do melodies and backings, but have trouble doing them together. I went througha phase of borrowing/trading for a while various instruments, but the only ones I play regularly are sax and trumpet, and I'm not that good at anything but the sax.
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