Piano, Organ, self taught on the accordian, and French Horn in high school!

I often wonder if I put that French Horn to my lips, would it all come back to me? I remember when the band was playing at the Anoka Pumpkin Bowl and it was snowing so bad and the mouthpiece was sticking to our lips, I ripped the skin off - we had to slide down this hill to get to the football field - on our be-hinds! I remember the only thing I learned on the accordian was a Polish polka - Julaida (pronounced Ju-ly-da) Polka. Piano - started when I was about six years old, ended up on the organ playing for Church (I remember when I had to play the organ for the Christmas Sunday School Program on Christmas Eve and I had been at the office Christmas party and got a little snockered - no, a lot snockered. Went to church, put on my gown, gingerly walked to the organ, set it all up and played "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with nary a mistake - left hand, right hand and both feet. Never before and never again. And now have the piano again, but don't play it very much. Needs tuning and I need fabric more than I need a piano tuned.

So now I play the sewing machine and it makes the most beautiful music. Edie

I used to play drums in my HS marching band thousands of years ago. Now I need help playing a radio!!

I played French Horn in HS, coronet in marching band, piddled around with clarinet, oboe and sax. I was pretty good in my day!! I wish I still had a horn to try :-D Now I have a piano, which I tried to learn as an adult. The grand daughter likes to pound on it, my daughter sits down to it once in a while, and I can still get out a few simple songs :lol: :lol: It does the trick to teach GD Christmas carols and other little childhood ditties. Really needs tuned!! I'm sure I don't sing off key, it must be the piano :lol: :lol: :lol:

I played the clarinet, bass clarinet in grade school and high school; then switched in high school to string bass. Just bought one 2 years ago after 30 years and am playing again. I own 3 guitars but have never mastered them. I also collect sewing machines, who here doesn't, but at least those I have mastered.....
Oh, yeah, I also sing alto in the church choir. Singing is also an instrument.

I have an electric keyboard that I play for my own pleasure. I learned to play the quitar back when, Until my daughter (a music teacher) took it to college with her and it has never made it's way back home.

Yes, my sons begged me to let them play electric guitar when they were in high school but I refused, thinking that it was a passing fancy. When my oldest son came home from college for christmas break, I found that he had taken up guitar with a nasty old electric cast off from a friend and was playing about 3 hours a day! I immediately gave him my acoustic to take back to college and then bought him his own electric for christmas. That was 9 years ago and you should hear him play now! He still plays daily, it is his hobby and he owns several acoustic, electric and bass guitars as well as a small drum set. I eventually got my original guitar back!

I play piano and mountain dulcimer. Also sing in church choir. I used to sing 1st soprano, but I'm down to 2nd now. The voice definitely lowers as you get older! I guess if I live long enough I'll be a bass.

Piano, clarinet, flute, classical guitar.

Piano & autoharp,cant find time to practice for quilting ho ho

roflmao! I am laughing because a teacher would have quit if I were her student.

cant sing either grandfather said I couldnt carry a tune in a bucket. No musical abilities but love music.

I played accordian for many years. No longer have an instrument. Just wish I did. May start looking for a good used one. I really loved playing.

I did play the piano but I was not so good in playing it, I was learning. Then one day I came home from work and my piano was gone. My ex sold it and I never played again.
Still playing harmonica and try to learn the guitar wich I find very difficult.

The only instrument I play is the radio.

I play giutar and dulcimer. dh little of the each. and dd violin. but haven't taken them out in a few years. :cry:

I play the best radio you've ever heard.

On the other hand, my talented step-daughter is a
world class pianist, and I admire her lots.

Piano - but not for a long time now. Anybody need a used Baldwin? <G>

I am teaching myself to play the mountain dulcimer. My hubby is building one. I love the sound of them!

I always wanted to play the flute but never got the chance.

Did you see him in "Crossroads"? He was the guitarist for the devil. The guy who played the original Karate Kid was the hero who dueled with Vai to save the soul of an old blues man. It was good, but had some scenes I had forgotten about when I let my teenage boys watch it. :oops:

Oh, and I used to play the flute, but my teacher was my big sister and I hated that. I quit to be on the flag corps in the band. She went on to play in the college marching band and symphony and now plays at weddings and at church.

violin and recorder these days.
played piano, flute & french horn in school.
hope to learn the bodhran (have it just can't seem to get the hang of it yet)

I play piano. Sometimes it's a tough choice between playing the piano for therapy and playing with the sewing machine.

Piano, Organ, french horn, flute
Judy in Wyoming

tenor sax

Yep back in my long haired hippy boy days I was able to meet Steve Vai and he jammed with my band after a Whitesnake concert here in town. There was a club here in town that after all of the big concerts the bands would usually come to and unwind and hang out. Just so happen my band (Bottom Line) was playing there that night and they came in.

He and I sat around for a while after the set and he was showing me things that just blew me away on the guitar. Before I met him I would play by ear and play what I heard. After that night I started to learn Theory.

Billy

Used to play flute and piccolo in High School.

Kyia

NO - but if I have enough coins
I can play the jukebox. !

I play viola now and then. I used to play all the time. I was in all-county orchestra during middle and high school and the Winston-Salem Philharmonic.

I play the accordian. Growing up I lived in Michigan - lots of polish weddings, festivals, etc. Paid my way through college playing gigs. Also play the piano & electric keyboard. My younger son plays drums, viola, guitar & piano. My older son plays cello. It was always so much fun during the Christmas holidays at our house when we all played together.

Guitar and piano. And used to sing in the church ans school choir.

No, totally tone deaf. But, I love music, and sing along with it. When my oldest was very young, he said Mom sounds like a dead cow, bless his little heart, that was nearly 50 years ago.

Everybody else in my family, siblings, is very musical. Oldest sister has a voice that allowed her to be a soloist in High school and college. Brother has a great sense of rhythm, plays the drums, and organ. Younger sister plays the sax, and she's half deaf. Youngest sister has a beautiful voice, and plays the flute.

My husband use to sing opera all the time, but the asthma has taken his lung capacity away, and can no longer do that, we both miss it. Oldest son plays a mean flute, but doesn't really enjoy it, and he has a wonderful singing voice. He played the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz and got great reviews in the local papers. Youngest son plays the sax, drums and piano, and loves to play jazz, his music teacher wanted him to try out for a musical scholarship, but he said that's not what he wanted, he's an outdoorsman, hence the job of Forestry and fire fighting. He also sings great country, the old stuff. Love to listen to him and my other son get in singing contest, I throw out some word, and they have to come up with a song that has that word in it. Sometimes I think they cheat to just pull one over on mom.

My father also played the drums. Mother is just like me can't do anything musical, except dance like mad with my father, but since he died she has absolutely no interest in it.

So I hope I haven't bored you to death.
Lucinda.

I never did play any instruments, but always wanted to learn giurtare . God bless. Penny

NO, But always wished i could play the piano and a beaut.iful voice to go with it

My Husbands dad made his own instruments like Guitars Fiddles and Mandolins We have of of each that he made the mandolin neck was made out of a piece of firewood for my husband when he was 8yrs old he is 63 now He use to could play the mandolin a little but not any more and the youngest son can play anything he picks up I guess he takes after his grandfather

I play the radio brilliantly!!

My step-daughter is a world class pianist, played before Queen of England and Pres Bush...

But I play the radio brilliantly, and can't carry a tune in a paper sack.