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Geek Culture / What musical instrument do you play, if any?

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Mr Pointless
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I have a keyboard that's been sitting in the corner of my bedroom since Christmas 2004.

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Torsten Sorensen
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Drums (Tama) and Guitar (Telecaster).

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IanG
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Posted: 4th Feb 2006 15:47
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Quote: "I have a keyboard that's been sitting in the corner of my bedroom since Christmas 2004."

my brother had a keyboard for his birthday in 2000 ish, since then he played on it a couple of times so i've managed to get it - so now it sits in my room where it gets played about once or twice a week - best present my brother ever got :p


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Philip
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I think this thread demonstrates what a lot of musical talent we have amongst us. Imagine if we all formed a band.

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Kevin Picone
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jezz, playing with one guitar player is bad enough, imagine a room full of them.

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Torsten Sorensen
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But really, I just make my music in sowftware, not real recording. [href]www.bntstuff.com/music[/href], theres some examples.

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Peter H
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@Philip... ok, i'll play the drumiano and get all fame and money.

you guys can be my roadies... (and band members too i suppose...)

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@philip - now wouldn't that be a lot of noise, imagine trying to organise it, no one would really listen then you get the show offs who just play a small section of nirvana smells like teen spirit repeatedly thinking they are cooler than a polar bear in a freezer in the antartic


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Seppuku Arts
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Guitar and keyboards dudes, between guitars and never owned a keyboard But I can play both, and love playing the guitar (even though I haven't touched it in months) i tend to play metal now, when I was learning as a kid I did classical and blues, then rock, I should really buy a new one and start re learning it, I mean the dude my Dad teaches is awesome, he can really makes it sound awesome drop d-tuned, plays stuff similar to Trivium, Lamb of God, Chimaira, and is fast, had I not sold me guitar, I could be like that stupid me


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MartinS
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I play guitar, piano, violin, viola, trumpet, recorder.
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Posted: 7th Feb 2006 19:57
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Quote: "Imagine if we all formed a band. "


Mnem's Manchester convention, all bring your instruments!

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Mr Pointless
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Posted: 7th Feb 2006 20:17
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Quote: "what a lot of musical talent"


I can only play two things on my keyboard... "Merrily We Roll Along" and the first two lines of the music they used to play on the old Hovis ads in the UK. And whenever I come up with something that sounds great to me... it's always when I can't write it down for later... like at work. Or on the bog.

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I can play adequately the Alto Sax and Guitar. I can also string together chords and melodies etc on the piano, if the mood takes me .

"and the first two lines of the music they used to play on the old Hovis ads in the UK."

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Mr Pointless
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Posted: 8th Feb 2006 00:38
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That's the one.

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Peter H
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Posted: 8th Feb 2006 00:48 Edited at: 8th Feb 2006 00:49
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Quote: "Mnem's Manchester convention, all bring your instruments! "

... hmm... might be a little expensive taking the piano and drums on the airplane....
(drums maybe, piano... no way)

although i've been playing the piano for 2 years and the drums for only maybe 4 months... i think i'm going to be a lot better at the drums then i've been at the piano... (i'm not bad at the piano, i consider myself pretty decent... but i'm not mozart...)

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Posted: 8th Feb 2006 17:40 Edited at: 8th Feb 2006 17:47
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trumpet, piano, alto sax, valve trombone (it's a bit of a novelty item ) and i can play my sisters tenor horn too. i only get lessons with the trumpet and piano, self taught sax and the other brass instruments play just like the trumpet, just lower.

edit: i can play the recorder that's lying around the house somewhere and there's an ocarina in the house too, although i don't really know how to play it well. i'm working to wards grade 8 trumpet this year and grade 6 piano. (don't really practice the piano enough to progress quickly)

i play in the regional jazz band with he trumpet but i play all sorts of music on both my main instruments.

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Violin


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Deadwords
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Drum, Guitar... that's everything i think...

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Mucky Muck Ninja
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I play viola right now and am trying to convince my parents to let me do guitar instead :p

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Eddie Gordo
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Guitar, Bass, Ocarina, Piano, a lot of percussion and i sing...

Though i sold my Electric Guitar to fund a trip to connecticut...i miss it so...but i love my fiance more...i think...IBANEZ WHERE ARE YOU...er...sorry...

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Triple Ha
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Posted: 9th Feb 2006 06:49
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Keyboard and piano.

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Retarded Sausage
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Posted: 12th Feb 2006 11:37
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Electric Gutar(lead) and bass clarinet
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The dude guy
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Posted: 13th Feb 2006 00:38 Edited at: 13th Feb 2006 00:40
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I'd have trouble walking all the way to England with a guitar, cello, and an amp. I can just picture myself limping

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Peter H
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hmm...

gimme teh notez!!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 02:42
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Quote: "jezz, playing with one guitar player is bad enough, imagine a room full of them. "

could say the same thing about drums! they never listen at practice


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BearCDPOLD
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Not as bad as trumpets. The alto sax section always has to show them how it's done(and then the drummers play too loud during our solis ).

Speaking of music, listen:
http://www.philharmonicwinds.org/MP3/Armenian_dances.mp3

The absolute greatest band song ever written. If you're a band geek and don't know it, then curse you and 18 generations of your descendants.


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Phaelax
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I made a clip of me playing Dee on acoustic. You'll probably notice the action on my high-E string is a little too low.
http://cca-software.com/music/me%20-%20dee.mp3 - 712kb


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 21:04 Edited at: 14th Feb 2006 21:05
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Here's the instrument I play:

http://total.naruto.free.fr/ninja2/katana-grand.jpg

I find it really captures my audience's attention.

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Phaelax, that's pretty slick dude.


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Bizar Guy
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I play the #2 pencil (sometimes I play other pencils). I find my audience gets really board until I finish and show the results.

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Andyhhp
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I have played the piano since I was 5 (nearly 12 years) and have been part of my varouls school's choirs since I was 9. I am hopefully going to take Grade 6 piano later this year

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Tallun
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Accoustic guitar, cornet, keyboard

I'm kinda moderately good at the piano, worse at the guitar than that, and worse at the cornet than that. Actually, I think I've only played my cornet once or twice.
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bass guitar
classic accoustic,nylon string

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