Instruments

So, seen as this is a music section, what instrument (if any) do you play and how good are you?

I'm a pianist myself, though I'm not that good :(

Trying to learn A Cruel Angel's Thesis from Evangelion...

I've been playing and self-taught myself guitar for about 6 years now (I'm no Jimi Hendrix, but I'm decent) and these are the two guitars I have:

Sigma Acoustic

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Starburst Fender w/ humbucker pickup

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I need to get (or borrow) the right equipment in order to record myself playing "God Knows" by Aya Hirano.

I also used to do *cough*highschool band*cough*

long, long ago (like... 16 years ago) I played the violin. I still own one, but I really never made time to pick it up again... :(

I play the ocarina. (It's a Zelda one. Blue with the Triforce) It's just a hobby of mine. I like it. ^_^

I used to play the piano, but it was never a favorite thing to do. Ever since I saw GSG I've been wanting to play the violin, but I know it would only to be for fun, not to take lessons.

2 Turntables, unless you're the type of person who doesn't count it as an instrument...

...And a microphone, CUZ IT'S WHERE IT'S AT!

I do piano and keyboards, mainly - classically trained up 'til Grade Eight of the Royal Schools of Music system. Occasionally play a B.C. Rich WMD Widowmaker bass guitar that's not mine, too.

Open any portals lately with your playing, Triela?

My musical resume

7 years of Vocals (Choir)
5 years of studying music theory
5 years of piano, reading music sheets.
2 years of piano, reading from guitar tabelature and chords (Guitar to piano only)
2 years of self taught harmonica
1 year of designing music compilations
1 year of violin (Just beginners)
6 months of self taught guitar
2 months of self taught recorder study

Dude I'm only 15 there's only so may instruments I can play at one time.

Very impressive, Farbanti!

Nachtsider wrote:
Open any portals lately with your playing, Triela?

Haha! I wish! I'm still waiting for a random horse to come up to me when I play Epona's Song. ^o^

Woah! That's amazing Farbanti!! I wish I could be musical like that.

Oh yeah my mom also says I have a great singing voice but I don't think so. -_-;;

Nachtsider wrote:Very impressive, Farbanti!

Thanks, I'm now trying to move on to music synthesis. If it weren't for my future military career I'd go for music instead. >.<

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Wah! Farbanti, the talent for such young age!

I've been an opera singer from 12 years, a pianist for 14 years, cellist for 15 years and a violinist for 9 years.

My parents threatened me to stick it, and it kind of paid off in the end. XP

LoC978 wrote:long, long ago (like... 16 years ago) I played the violin. I still own one, but I really never made time to pick it up again...

At last! A fellow lapsed violinist! I am not alone!

mara wrote:At last! A fellow lapsed violinist! I am not alone!

You'll never be.

Asilahc wrote:Wah! Farbanti, the talent for such young age!

I've been an opera singer from 12 years, a pianist for 14 years, cellist for 15 years and a violinist for 9 years.

My parents threatened me to stick it, and it kind of paid off in the end. XP

Opera...I feel inferior. :embarrassed:

I still haven't found an instrument that's for me, I'm a Jack of all trades but an Ace of none.

LoC978 wrote:...

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Hahah I checked that out, it's pretty awesome what the Marine Corps could do. ^^

I wanna play violin, but I'm doing GCSE music right now so it wouldn't be that great an idea to start now :(

I´m playing the guitar, but i´m not very good at it, because I hate to practice ...

Farbanti wrote:

Asilahc wrote:Wah! Farbanti, the talent for such young age!

I've been an opera singer from 12 years, a pianist for 14 years, cellist for 15 years and a violinist for 9 years.

My parents threatened me to stick it, and it kind of paid off in the end. XP

Opera...I feel inferior. :embarrassed:

I still haven't found an instrument that's for me, I'm a Jack of all trades but an Ace of none.

My coach is rough. I would spend saturdays with a tub over my head so I learn how to make my voice resonate like bell. He made me do fifty crunches before I can start vocalizing. >.< It was torture!

You will, if you have to try all of the instruments! At least, you will be a multi-talented musician who can play every instrument!!

Triela-Chan wrote:I´m playing the guitar, but i´m not very good at it, because I hate to practice ...

Haha, I hear you! I'm lazy with my practicing too! My parents are the reason why I now fell into a routine. All the threats of belts, and no playtime! THE AGONY! I was six, and all I could think of was what tree I should climb next!

I play the violin. When i play people say i look sad but im actually happy (wierd eh?) when i was on my 3/4ths size i had the case that shaped like the instrument so i wrote amati on it a put my airsoft p 90 in it it was lols yeah right now im alright at playing still got some ways to go i play at my church but a lot of the poeple i know there are anime fans or gamers so they aren't bothered when i play some anime songs i still heep an airsoft gun in my full size case today cause we have some skirmishes in the parking lot after church.

I played piano back in grade school. Wasn't very good at it though. Then again at that age I never was into practicing.

you people...practice makes you a ROBOT!!!!!!!!
i was forced to practice like 5 hours of the day and as a result i have an evil look in my eye and a cruel personality. i can play the violin tho that makes it worth it right?

tsundere9kagami2 wrote:you people...practice makes you a ROBOT!!!!!!!!
i was forced to practice like 5 hours of the day and as a result i have an evil look in my eye and a cruel personality. i can play the violin tho that makes it worth it right?

Yeah...It's worth it. >.< But I just don't have the will power sometime.

get urself some asian parents you will get will power and then some.

I think that's a generalization.

Certainly true in my case (I'm Indian)...

Not really seen any Indian parents that aren't like that.

Music is kind of my chief pleasure in life. ^_^ Embarrassingly, though I play several instruments, I can't for the life of me read a piece of sheet music in any key other than C, with anything shorter than sixteenth notes (I've been chided for that by my teachers my whole career).

I play the violin (my primary instrument) [seven years], viola (the instrument I played in the orchestra this year) [one year], the cello [one year], the piano [altogether, five years, but I quit at age eight (I loathe practicing any instrument) and only took it up again for fun two years ago], the accoustic guitar [one year], and I sing [four years in an actual choir].

I'm a big fan of the music in Gunslinger Girl, and Henrietta's violin theme (you all know the one, but it has several names on the soundtrack for all its variations) was one of the first pieces I played in high school on the violin - as well as one of the few songs I've never grown bored with, no matter how many times I play it. It's so beautiful! *_*

Here are pictures of my instruments; I don't own a cello (woe!), but that's next on the list.


First and foremost, my Baby (she's a bit of a camwhore; I put her all over the internet), my pride and joy, the violin:

Her name's Cossette; she was made in 1612 and has been in the family since 1911, a German copy of an Amati with an Oxblood finish. (Why yes, I am obsessed with my violin.) The bow is a medium-quality viola bow; I don't use my violin bow because it's both ancient and cheap, which isn't a good combo.

(PS, if you guys reeeally want me to spoilercut this one, too, I will, but I don't have the heart to do it without being asked. ;__;

The piano, which is excellent therapy (though addictive) and the instrument I play second-most:

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The viola:

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Lastly but not least, the guitar (her name's Vivica):

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Sorry about the picspam, but I'm quite fond of showing off all of them except the viola. It's a little ugly. :(

Nachtsider wrote:I think that's a generalization.

hell no bruddha my parents are asian and i can say that but its really only when your parents were imigrants. After the first children the childrens children's standards drop and thats when you get NEETS.

oh and about the indians being like that too it seems to be super true when i went to my indian friends house his parents made him and me practice violin T.T.

Yeah, once my parents made my sister play guitar in front of some guests even though she'd only just started, and when we saw them later she knew that they were gonna remember. They did, and they agreed that she was rubbish Yeah, she got mad at my parents for a while after that...

Miiko Ashida wrote:Music is kind of my chief pleasure in life. ^_^ Embarrassingly, though I play several instruments, I can't for the life of me read a piece of sheet music in any key other than C, with anything shorter than sixteenth notes (I've been chided for that by my teachers my whole career).

I can relate to that. I can read music (Piano format) but it takes me forever to translate that into what my hands can understand. I don't know many songs but it's very pleasureable. I can twist guitar sheets into piano chords giving me some edge on the music making area. I also play a whole lot of instruments also violin, piano, vocals, harmonica, guitar just to name a few. You're actually someone that I can relate to when it comes to music. My parents always get on my case when I don't play traditionally. >.<

all I gotta say is...

greatest thing in the universe.

*saves image*

your all forgetting the most badass instrument out there AIR GUITAR !

http://www.usairguitar.com/

Last macro by me. Bagpipe Hero is da shizz.

Nachtsider wrote:

So true! <3

Somehow, Triela, I just knew you were going to say that.

My list:

Guitar:
-6-string
-7-string
-5-string Bass(I LUV playing bass)

Drums

Harmonica
-In my opinion, the greatest instrument ever invented.


@Miiko

I share your pain. I can't for the life of me tell a D Minor from an E Flat. I just play be ear as best I can.

I've played piano for eight years, trumpet for three years and french horn for two.

I play pretty much anything on piano, and french horn mainly for school band. Whenever the trumpet section's running short I step in.

I also sang in a choir and did some handbells for a couple years, but I'm not good at all...just for fun.

All of us were forced to play some sort of instrument, in my family >.< That and a multilingual home life was supposed to *expand our minds* or summat like that.

I don't know. All i know is that i was forced to take piano lessons for years, and only recently stopped because sports got in the way. I can sight read and play anything thta i really want to, it just takes differnet lengths of time for me to learn the peices based on the difficulty of the peice. I was taught with the Suzuki method, meaning more by ear and less by music, so it's not too terribly hard for me to hear a piano peice and then later on figure it out ( based on sound) on the piano.

It's not my favorite past time, but something i can revert to now and again when i'm feeling particularly *musical*, lol. But i'm no Mozart.

In the years of my youth, I have played:
-Clarinet
-Violin
-Viola
- 4 string electric Bass

Never played an instrument (music class doesn't count, IMO).

I am a violinist myself, though I have not touched the bow and strings in a year.

@Miiko: Naming your instrument seems fun -- what made you decide on these names? I toyed with naming my violin Lucila a while back, but ultimately cannot decide on a name meaningful enough.