What musical instrument(s) do you play?

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i believe that if you just got back with that Electone that it'd come back to you.

Oh wait, I'm sure we have electric bass guitars here too.
I don't know which is which.
There's a ukulele here sometimes too.

I'm musically illiterate but my son has a band.
His friends still have instruments here.

He can play everything.
Related to Tchaikovsky and all that.

You sound very talented too blabbs.

thank you Isabella i am sure you have talents that you have barely scratched the surface of. sometimes later in life they finally get a chance to come out into the sunshine.

I don’t have a lot of natural talent, so I relied on hard work to get me where I am. I’ve enjoyed every second of it.

If you get a used piano, have someone go with you to check it out. Lots of people wreck pianos by not storing them correctly, never tuning them, damaging them during moving, etc.

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did you take lessons?

I took lessons when I was a kid. My family struggled financially when I was a young teenager so they had to get rid of the piano and my lessons stopped. That was a very traumatic time in my life. I’m saying this as a person who’s been through a lot. My dream was to go to Juilliard which was probably silly but still…

I’ve gotten back into playing the past few years.

Nah, I'm not putting myself down. I just don't think I could do an instrument. I stim with my hands too much. I wouldn't be able to hold an instrument without letting go. I like touching the keyboard on a laptop because that's stimmy and I can touch-type, but organ / piano keys are too far apart. Plus you have to sit on a bench / chair, neither of which I do.

I'm content to be a listener.

I understand the mathematics of musical notation but nothing about pitch. I think I'm even tone deaf.

@TP - Yes, I'm sure it was years of hard work and well worth it.


My daughter played cello for years and she bought herself an acoustic guitar recently. She's had a rough time because her skin on her hands is really bad from autoimmune, but she's plucking along and learning quickly. She plays piano quite well although I seldom get to hear it. She used to be in musical theatre productions as a child and sometimes had singing solos.

My DIL plays concert-level piano.

I really should get one.

You should get one.

My mom recently got a cello. She’s always wanted to play one. I’ve played with it a little. It sounds very nice.

My exbf has a doctorate in composition and Spanish guitar.
He used to tune MD's cello.
I wonder if she'd still be interested in playing it.

Are you learning now by video (YouTube etc), or just by practice?

Just practice. Right now, I’m a late intermediate/early advanced player.

That's amazing.
Does your son play piano or any other instruments?

do you have a style of playing you prefer?

He played the drums in school band, but he wasn’t into it at all. I gave the drums to one of my students with his approval (of course).

I’ve encouraged him to find another instrument, but he’s just not that interested in music.

I have a soft spot for Chopin, but I like classical music from Mozart to the present. I’ve tried getting into Bach, but I just can’t. Of course, his Toccata in D Minor is really good.

I enjoy listening to fugues. I don’t really like playing them.

Funny, I'm more of a strings person but I like all classical pianists except Chopin.
I could never stand him for some reason-- but then again I haven't listened to much because of that.

I'm sure you play it well.

I LOVE BACH -- Had lots of Bach and Handel at my wedding.

any particular classical artist's style you'd like to emulate?