Musicians - what do you play?

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I've been playing the piano for 2 years now.I really enjoy it.But I can't read notes,I play by ear.I also want ot learn guitar and violen.

-SpaceCase

I'm a double bassist, French horn player and classical/jazz vocalist... I'm also working on an honours thesis concerning gender performance and masculinities in Wagner's Ring Cycle operas... this should prove interesting (to me, anyhow.)

I officially play violin, viola, clarinet, bass clarinet, and have just started to learn the piano; but I'm trying to teach myself oboe and cello as well. I'd teach myself sax, flute and all the other woodwind instruments (especially harmony instruments) if I had the time/money/instruments but I don't. So I have to be content with having a go on my friends' instruments

I started because I went along to the audition for violin and was chosen. I think I went along to that because I liked playing the recorder (and was kind of good if I may say so myself) but I'm not entirely sure. I started clarinet because I missed my flute audition, and Mum suggested I try out for clarinet instead, so I did. Viola because I find violin a little cramped and the high notes do funny things to my ears, and because I found a viola at school and had a go at it. Even though it had fraying strings and no chin-rest ... Piano because we were given one a couple of years ago, and I tried to teach myself a few pieces but now my friend gives lessons at a cheap rate. Oboe because I found one at school and had an obsession at the time anyway, and cello because my sister's just started and I like the sound it makes.

Passion for music; protectivesness over 'my' instruments and a strong sense of loyalty towards them (defend viole!); outlet sometimes; profession in the future. Plus I get quite depressed and jumpy if I don't play an instrument at least once every other day (ideally I should practise every day I know, but sometimes that's just not possible.)

Yay go music!

Piano, recorder, flute, oboe, guitar. Yep.

I started learning to play guitar in my teens (between skateboarding sessions so I didn't get far, heh) and managed to learn three or four chords, i.e. just enough to annoy the crap out of my dad. I always wanted to learn bass - I have finally decided to act on it so I'm saving up for a bass and amp now...

Bass is cool I can kind of play it if I concentrate really hard. Lol my friend (who's a music genius and can play anything he wants, really) couldn't play it, but after 9 years of violin I could get my wrist into position so I could play it! Yay!

I now only play the bass guitar - (gear is: Ibanez SDGR (wooden body, thin neck, active pickups) and Fender 300W combo amp) - but to begin with, at seven I started on the violin, moved to the clarinet, then to the viola, all the while singing. I no longer remember how to play strings, but I played the clarinet for enough years to never forget it (even if my skills are terribly rusty). Been playing the bass on and off for about eight years now, I took it up to form a band with my three friends who were guitarists and a drummer.

If I had sufficient motivation to practice more than one instrument regularly, I'd immediately take up the clarinet & singing again, and start on three other instruments: the soprano saxophone, because it melds what I love about the saxophonic sound with the clarinet's features; the piano, because it is so incredibly versatile and there are simply too many good pieces I wish I could recreate; and the cello, because -nothing- else can create that unbelievably satisfying texture =)

i play guitar, i love music alot, mostly metal though.

I really want a bass guitar now.

Was playing my 6 string electric yesterday like it was a bass guitar. Shame the strings were so thin i kept plucking the wrong string.

So im gonna save up for a bass guitar now

I played the drums in high school but i've been playing guitar for 5 years, have an ashton slimline acoustic with pick up. Mostly now i do composition for film on the computer with my synth.

I played brass instruments at school, first the trumpet, then Eb horn (imagine a baby tuba)

I always struggled with the sheet music, especially in the large orchestras and brass band, which overwhelmed & fazed my concentration. Eventually I just gave up trying to follow the ‘2nd Eb horn’ part and just started improvising, creating my own little musical commentary as I went along.

No one seemed to notice, but I was always wary that one day id mess up and be outed as a fraud and musically illiterate bufoon.

During rehearsal, the conductor would keep stopping abruptly and going ‘Hmmm… somethings not quite right…. - lets hear just the euphoniums by themselves…ok, that’s good…lets hear 2nd trumpets from the bridge…. No, that’s not it….psych, is that 2nd or 1st Eb horn?’ I d be thinking ‘this is it, im finished!’ but somehow, playing solo I always managed to get away with it. In retrospect, its possible she knew all along, and didn’t want to ridicule or exclude me.