Do you play an instrument?

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I played piano since age 6 but quit when I was 23. I haven't touched the piano since. I got so burnt out during college when I majored in music. It was a very difficult major for me. Way too much competition too. I still enjoy singing though and may try out for a local chorale.

Loli-kun


I actually got accepted into a 4 year university, but I wasn't quite sure if I could handle a 4 year, so I went to a 2 year college and got a Associate in Applied Arts in music. I did transferred to a 4 year college. I switched majors (in same concentration though) several times. I did get accepted as Bachelor of Music in performance, but the courses looked way too challenging. Then I thought about Music Education. NO WAY! I couldn't perform a recital in front of so many people for a grade. Do you have to do that at your college? So I finally decided on Bachelor of Arts in music. Other college students thought that the BA in music degree was a BS degree. The BA degree had music classes but not as extensive as a performance or education degree were. Which college do you go to?

I was very lucky to even get a 4 year degree. I almost quit! Sight Singing/Ear Training was so hard for me. At my college they crammed 1 and 2 into one year! I think now it's for 3 semesters. I had to do Keyboard Pedagogy as well. Teaching Internship was terrible! You have to student teach and the professor grades you! So tons of eyes on you and you are all nervous. Do you have to do internship? But the worst classes in music was that Sight Singing and Internship.

Loli-kun


Do you have to take Conducting classes? What about choruses?

I've been playing the bassoon for seven years. I'm not too good at it but because there's not a lot of bassoonists around people usually think I'm better than I really am

Violinist for 18 years <3

Bagpipes. Scottish Highland (aka GHB), and Irish Uilleann pipes. Started learning the Scottish chanter around 1964, and got my R.G. Hardie Scottish pipes in the fall of 1966. I used to play quite regularly, but not any more, usually only when there's a memorial in the family group. In 1974 I joined the (now defunct) Black Raven Pipe Band of San Francisco, CA, and was Pipe Sergeant when I left in 1981 to attend tech school.

In 1982 I started making my own UP half-set (chanter and drones, none of the extra "chord" pipes called "regulators"), and play occasionally, though I used to play regularly when I lived in SF and could attend the monthly Piper's Club meetings and the "seisuns" (jam sessions) available at an Irish pub. I did take the pipes down to a local pub on "open mike night" and played a few tunes recently.

I also have an old Ludwig tenor banjo (from the 1920's, I believe) and have it strung "Irish style", i.e., same notes as a mandolin, etc, but haven't played it very much in the two decades or so since our "just for fun" singing group John Philbert ceased upon the death of Phil, who had been one of my very few closer relationships.

Also play the pennywhistle, and have a long D whistle hand-made by Copeland, along with the usual assortment of Generation whistles.

I used to play 5-string banjo, and can play basic guitar chords and rythym, but it's been about 40 years since I gave my 12-string Stella to my younger sister.

My first instrument (aside from picking out tunes on the piano when I was 5 or six, causing my older sister's piano teacher to ask my mother to have me take lessons, which did not happen, and I was the only child of three that continued to play music throughout my life) was Clarinet which started in 5th grade (that was about 1954!), and lasted though Marching Concert Band in HS.

I once toyed with learning the "fiddle" but that never happened.

Johnpipe

I have been playing the drums for the past 15 years. I started playing when I was 8. I haven't actually played them in two years.

I played flute in the school band from 5th to 8th grade. I also tried to teach myself guitar, but that didn't work out so well.

Guitar, bass. Would like to get into drums as well, it'd help me with recording but I'm stuck with a drum sequencer.

Speaking of instruments, I've finally gotten my Höfner bass. Will be alotta fun.

Actually it's an Icon. But if you swap the stock strings for a set of flatwounds you get equal comparison, seeing as it doesn't have that inner sustain block and is fully hollow unlike the Contemporary model and the third party copies (I've got a Jay Turser myself). Aside from the wider pickup openings and the neck area strap functions, the body/neck shape is identical to the '63 model 500/1. Because of this the feel is authentic to the Germans I've played (and due to my carpal tunnel issues I'd say that finding this bass is perfect timing).

I was initially set on saving up for a German and I was in Guitar Center looking for a low-priced but hopefully decent Epi Thunderbird or EB-3, maybe a nice Dot or Casino if not a bass. I hadn't yet seen an Icon in a store yet (Guitar Center never carries Höfners and Sam Ash only carries the Contemporaries which despite the German feel and looks, they sound almost like a solid body) and I was impressed.
I can say now that there is nothing much left to motivate me into getting a German anytime soon even if I had two grand to spend. Höfner knew what they were doing when they put out this model.

Btw, is this economy having a lot to do with a guitar's price? I saw a Warwick Corvette for $599, I love Warwicks and to see one much less a Corvette in particular at that price range was shocking.