What instruments do you play?

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For many years through grade school, I played saxophone. My parents were very supportive of me learning an instrument and that was the first one that struck my fancy. I dropped it off short into college but picked it back up against the last year.

Last year, I picked up fiddle/violin (there's no difference, the name mostly indicates what genre the person is playing, folk/bluegrass/Celtic/Jewish klezmer vs classical) and have gotten barely sufficient. (Violin is hard as balls, about the hardest instrument to learn.)

With violin lessons came a free steel-string guitar, like Buck Owens might have played while singing about Bakersfield, CA. I've only started playing it seriously as of late, but like it a lot.

Also picked up a harmonica, and a little cigar box guitar at Foxfire Festival because it looked so cute.
Future instruments to become mediocre at include the clarinet (plays the same as sax), electric guitar (literally a guitar), banjo (with the right tuning, a cigar box matches it), drum fife and bugle (classic gunpowder military instruments), and piano and organ (be an old timey saloon player/Southern rock star). My goal is to be a jack barely proficient of all trades, master above average at none (except sax).
 
I'm a drummer. Got a nice for the price Alesis Turbo/Nitromesh (whichever has the all mesh heads, I can't remember), and an old Gretsch Nighthawk that I need some new cymbals for.

Haven't played in a few months though. I'm also teaching myself to play a little piano with flowkey.
 
Classical guitar, but it boils down to looking up chords on ultimate-guitar.com and playing along.
 
I have a decent modular synth setup, a few Elektron boxes and some desktop synths routed through a DAW. I learned piano as a kid so that helps with music theory but my lack of recent experience on the keys is holding me back, thinking about taking up some lessons again.
 
Played drums by choice as a kid and had to play tuba in brass band. As an adult I play bass, mandolin and ukulele when I have the time.
 
I used to play the trombone back in school, was decent at it. Also tried my hand at the piano as well back then too. Not much of a player anymore though.
 
Piano, organ, synthesizer, marimba, xylophone, vibes... if it has a chromatic keyboard I can play it (to varying degrees of success). Singing comes more naturally to me but I find far greater enjoyment on the keys, so I consider myself a keyboardist who sings than a singer who plays keyboards.
 
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Homofascism said:
I have a decent modular synth setup, a few Elektron boxes and some desktop synths routed through a DAW. I learned piano as a kid so that helps with music theory but my lack of recent experience on the keys is holding me back, thinking about taking up some lessons again.
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Just get a midi keyboard daisy chained to all those boxes and start hitting the keys. Whack on an arpegiator.
Being classically trained will help a little with techno, but far more important is just the ability to try and improvise.
And don't get stuck on the same damn loop for half an hour.
 
I play the bass (poorly) and i also own a keyboard. I can't say i know how to play it though, got it for free and thought why not?
 
I'm a fiddle diddler. LOL
Violin, currently on a quest to drive myself mad learning the guitar.
Also I mess round with the mountain dulcimer, tinwhistles, even have a digeridoo I need to figure out.
 
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