Posted: 10/11/2005 11:25:09 PM EDT
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Do you play any? Music has always been important in my family. Neither of my parents are musically inclined, but everyone else is/was. Both of my grandfathers play. Maternal plays the guitar, paternal plays the accordian, fiddle, and mandolin. One of my uncles on my mother's side was in the WVU marching band and got a degree in music. One of my uncles on my dad's side gave it a go as a career in Nashville/Memphis in the 70s playing the guitar. I was in band in elementary school and high school. My sister too. She's currently in college going for a degree in flute performance. And to answer the original question, I play (or attempt to play) or have played the following: trumpet tuba euphonium trombone clarinet (barely) guitar mandolin (learning) I wish I would have learned the piano. |
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My family is semi-musical. My dad sang, played the piano and clarinet a little and my mother sang and played piano. But they were not deeply into music. I started with trombone, then switched to trumpet (1st trumpet, 1st chair all 4 years of high school), and then guitar and piano. I dabbled with the baritone for a while too. By brother played the clarinet, saxophone, piano, and electronic keyboards. He still plays in a local band. For a while, I was pretty good on the guitar, but as I got older I had less time to play. I'm trying to get back into it. I graduated with a BA in Music, but actually work as a software developer. One would think the two have nothing in common, but they actually do at an abstract level. |
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OK, the word actually means "bundle of sticks", and the bassoon was originally called that (and still is in most countries). In French it's "fagot" and in German it's "faggot." |
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been playing guitar for 20 years. In 1984 I saw BB King and a few months later Stevie Ray Vaughn in concerts. I was an impressionable 14 years old and I started imediatly saving for my first guitar. when I was 15 I got my first guitar and amp, I have played just about every day since then. My biggest influencences are SRV, BB King, and Hendrix. |
I played piano, the flute (no not the skin flute, the silver plated metal kind that lets you sit next to the mostly hot girls in band class ), and now play the guitar exclusively.I would have kept up with the flute but I didn't know of Jethro Tull at the time I quit.  Kent |