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Do you play a musical instrument?
Yes. 39%  39%  [ 229 ]
Yes. 40%  40%  [ 239 ]
No. 10%  10%  [ 59 ]
No. 11%  11%  [ 65 ]
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27 May 2013, 8:17 pm

I can play the piano, guitar, and recorder, though I am average at playing the three.


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02 Jun 2013, 5:59 pm

I play handbells


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28 Jun 2013, 4:41 am

i play the guitar, penny whistle, xaphoon , autoharp, recorder. learning the dizi flute violin , clarinette , keyboard, harmonica



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11 Jul 2013, 4:46 pm

I took music even know my skills were a bit edgy.
I played the piano and sung in a composition for my gcses, but I failed on my average predicted grades, which was a c, and I got a g.
In all fairness, I tried, and I tried hard, I liked music and still do, although my passion for playing expressively has all but gone now. I liked my music teacher, mr sedgewick, as he saw good potential in me, I did actually practice the Bournville concerto, and did well, but my final music compostion was heal the world I think, which was long and split into many parts, and I got a bit lost, considering also that the person I elected to help sing it, as I had to show I could play an instrument got short shrift with me, (because she could play piano) and thus both failed on tape.
However, I was chosen to sing soprano in my choir class I participated in at school.



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29 Jul 2013, 12:05 am

I am a true virtuoso on the celtic harp. Right on!

Just kidding. I suck at it and I should never make an attempt to play on a harp again. Ever.
These things are simply too huge for me.



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29 Jul 2013, 11:33 pm

I ''played'' the electric keyboard



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29 Jul 2013, 11:46 pm

I can play an empty beer bottle pretty well. HOOT! Image



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05 Aug 2013, 6:27 pm

Violin.

The results of the poll may be skewed since non-instrumentalists are less likely to view this topic.



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05 Aug 2013, 6:56 pm

wbport wrote:
Violin.

The results of the poll may be skewed since non-instrumentalists are less likely to view this topic.

less likely but still as likely to be aware of as anything on WP. I think it is a wash.



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08 Aug 2013, 7:43 pm

Nope... don't come from the right kind of family... where it's just normal that you learn an instrument because everybody does. Wish I could... but it's not the same as an adult IMO.



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08 Aug 2013, 7:49 pm

there are people with musical genes [come from a musical familial lineage] and those sans musical genes, and NEVER the twain shall meet.



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10 Aug 2013, 3:32 pm

auntblabby wrote:
there are people with musical genes [come from a musical familial lineage] and those sans musical genes, and NEVER the twain shall meet.


Yeah... maybe I'm really not able to ever learn one... maybe I actually am from a worth for nothing family. Thanks for reminding :wink:



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10 Aug 2013, 9:15 pm

Kabu wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
there are people with musical genes [come from a musical familial lineage] and those sans musical genes, and NEVER the twain shall meet.


Yeah... maybe I'm really not able to ever learn one... maybe I actually am from a worth for nothing family. Thanks for reminding :wink:

i'd rather be from a world-saving family than merely a musically talented one. good musicians are a dime a dozen but humanitarians are rare birds indeed.



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11 Aug 2013, 2:20 am

Honestly, I don't think that people are born as something at all. Neither as musicians nor with any other talents. Talent is just a poor excuse for not pushing yourself or others to the top. A great excuse for laziness, too.



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11 Aug 2013, 2:22 am

Kabu wrote:
Honestly, I don't think that people are born as something at all. Neither as musicians nor with any other talents. Talent is just a poor excuse for not pushing yourself or others to the top. A great excuse for laziness, too.

NOT. there are people born without the ability to discern pitch. one cannot expect such people to just "jerk themselves up by their own bootstraps" and become that which they are not [musicians].



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11 Aug 2013, 2:36 am

I was always a singer, joined the choir when I was 10 and took singing lessons in my teens. Never got into instruments until I hit my 40's and now play the didje, Native American flute, acoustic guitar and some hand drums. I still don't have the confidence to play in front of anyone :oops:


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