What INSTRUMENT do/did you play?

[burgertown]

The recorder, elementary
Saxophone, tuba, bass drum high school
tuba, college

and after al that I still can't read music worth anything

[PEARLS4ME]

I played the clarinet and now my daughter plays. She seems to be a natural, reads music easily where I always struggled.

[BlessedOne04]

When I was younger I played the clarinet. I loved it alot but we couldn't afford to buy the instrument.

[cecarter82]

6th-12th grade- clarinet

8th-current-piano

[black_princess]

Piano - elementary school (4th or 5th grade) never took it back up after my teacher past away at the end of the year

My last semester of college, I learned to play the double-seconds on the steel pan. I really wanted to learn, because it was a part of my culture. It was hard at first, because I was taught through reading music (which I had forgotten how to do). But after I got over that hump, I got so good that I didn't even need that sheets of music and could just play off memory, vibing to the music and melody. I could just feel it in my blood. For those who might not know what steel pan double seconds are, it is an instrument common in the Carribean. Some times it called the Steel drums and it is often played in Calypso and Soca music and I just fell in love with this instrment.

Below is a my favorite instument

[icebrAKA]

I played the flute from 5th-12th grade

Clarinet every now and again

[FeeFee]

Originally Posted by icebrAKA

I played the flute from 5th-12th grade

Clarinet every now and again

My daughter's learning how to play the flute now.

[TonyB06]

I played the upright bass, in 7th grade.

...now, I fool around with the piano/keyboard. I play a pretty funky C-scale if I do say so, myself.

[SummerChild]

None, my parents couldn't afford the rental fee when I was in elem. school. I wanted to play the flute.
ETA: funny thing now that I think about it b/c my sister and I took ballet from the time that we were in elem school well into college. So I guess they weren't all bad ... and cheap. LOL.

Oh well, I guess I could always learn to play an instrument now.
I heard that some of them can cause your bottom lip to split a little. Is that true?

SC

[Stephrossi]

I am writing a story called "Shining Stars." the story is about the band "Shining Stars" that has six people with disabillites three background vocalists, a lead vocalist, a organist who is the band's manager and she alos sings (That's me by the way) a guitar player and a bass player and eight females who staff fro The Arc one lady plays the drums, one woman plays guitar two women play saxophones and flutes two other women play trumpets and flugelhorns and one lady plays trombone and low brass. The songs they play are from band artists like Chicago, Tower of Power, Blood Sweat and Tears, Cold Blood, Earth, Wind and Fire, Ides of March, Blues brothers and the Commitments and others did I forget to mention

[CrimsonTide4]

I remember our recorders costing $2 in 1984. How much are they now?

[Kisha]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I began taking piano lessons in the 1st grade (by force) . I then lettered in Piano in high school. I didn't really take it seriously, but now I wish that I would have.

I pretty much have the same testimony. I may have been a little younger when I started playing the piano. Once upon a time, I was great, but I really wasn't interested. I wanted to dance instead of play the piano.

[prayerfull]

My parents had both my sister and I taking Violin lessons from the time we were about 3 years old. My sister was REALLY good. She even played in the UCLA orchestra in college. I HATED the violin. I didn't like all those creeses (sp?) in my fingers that the strings left. So, then I took piano lessons. I did pretty well with that - even got to play at the NAACP-ACT-SO thing. (By the way, that was a fun a$$ trip) My problem was that I hated to practice. Then I had this piano teacher that was gay and I didn't really like him that much, so if my parents weren't home and I was there and he came over for my lesson, I'd turn up the stereo so loud that it could be heard from outside and then he'd come to the door and ring the bell for about 20 minutes and leave...then I could just say "oh..so sorry...I didn't hear the door...maybe next week!!!)

I started my kids on piano lessons last year, but let them drop it after about 4 months because they had this psycho military-minded japanese teacher who was just too strict with them. They weren't having fun with it. I've started giving them lessons myself...HECK my parents spent all that money on me..I should be able to use that knowledge and give my kids the basics, 'ya know.

[12dn94dst]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
I remember our recorders costing $2 in 1984. How much are they now?

with the way schools are cutting back music & art programs, is this even an option?

i played the recorder in the 2nd/3rd grade then moved up the the clarinet in 5th, which i played up until my jr year in college.

[AKA2D '91]

What is a recorder?