What INSTRUMENT do/did you play?

[CrimsonTide4]

really surprised this was not a thread. . .

What instrument do you play? did you used to play?

The recorder -- 4th grade tradition for Warrensville Heights School System

The triangle :p

Xylophone :D

The clarinet -- 6th grade - 9th/10th (can't remember) I wanted the drums :mad:

Keyboard -- Christmas present 7th/8th grade :D

[Dionysus]

Violin-Elementary school

Keyboard-ever since i was 7, but I am kind of rusty now, i haven't played in a few years.

[carolyne]

I played the clarinet and flute from the 4th/5th grade until 7th/8th grade.

[DableST_1]

I know it's been a long time since you heard from me. I am preparing myself to audition for the Lyric Opera in Chicago.

Ok now to answer the question, I play the violin, cello, sax, clarinet, piano, trumpet, harmonica and the flute!!! But my main instrument is voice. I am hoping one day to become an orchestra conductor!!! With God's grace, we'll see!!!

"V"

[VirtuousErudite]

Violin for the past 13 years. :)

[AKA2D '91]

I began taking piano lessons in the 1st grade (by force) :mad: . I then lettered in Piano in high school. I didn't really take it seriously, but now I wish that I would have. Every now and again when I'm at my mother's I'll hit the black and whites.


I played the flutophone in the 6th grade.

[Mz Destiny]

Recorder- 3rd grade
Percussion- 4th grade
Clarinet- 5th grade through 8th grade (school band), 8th grade through 12th grade (church instrumental ensemble).

I reaaaly want to learn how to play the piano and organ!

[FeeFee]

7-9th grade - clarinet

11th grade - drums

I wished that I learned how to play the piano. :(

[2DISCRETE4U]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
really surprised this was not a thread. . .

What instrument do you play? did you used to play?

The triangle :p


Ok I was cracking up when I saw that!! ;) I know you were jamming on it though! :p

I played the recorder in Elementary school.
The Clarinet from 3rd to 12th grade...that also incorporated the Bass Clarinet and Oboe.
I played the Xylophone in the marching band.
And I play the piano...only when I go to my parents house though. :D

[CrimsonTide4]

I forgot one. . .the TAMBOURINE :cool:


come on folks, have fun today. :D

[Gina1201]

I played the piano while in elementary and then again in high school. I was forced to do this by my grandmother.

[ClassyLady]

I played piano. I wasn't very good but I tore it up at my first and only recital. I can still play that song to this day.

[D.COM]

Recorder - Elementary school - "When the Saints Go Marching In" (I can still play it now, lol) and the school song.

Xylophone - Elementary school - A whole bunch of Christmas songs, etc.

That's about it for me ;)

[Bamboozled]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
The recorder

Grrrrrrrr @ the recorder. My niece is playing it now in music class and at least twice a week I get a cross country phone call so she can murder some innocent children's song. She's so proud of her self. :eek:

I played the viola from 4th grade through 8th and then I switched to the violin in 9th grade. I played for two years in high school and then I became to cute/cool/stupid to keep playing. Now I wish I had kept with it. I could be like that girl on Jay-Z's concert special.

[Honeykiss1974]

The recorder ( I think every kid in elementary school throughout the US has played this)

My main instrument is the saxophone, but I also play the piano, bass clarinet and the clarinet (self taught).

Although, I haven't picked up ANY instrument since leaving college. :( I do plan to buy a piano one day and start playing again.

[CrimsonTide4]

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

[Kisha]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I began taking piano lessons in the 1st grade (by force) :mad: . 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? :p

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?

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
What is a recorder?


:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: cheap flute

http://www.ruthiesmusic.net/media/1810.gif
RECORDER

The one we used were dark brown and plastic. I had never heard of the flutophone til your post, but I see it is related to a recorder.

http://www.ruthiesmusic.net/media/1812.jpg
FLUTOPHONE

According to Ruthie's music, they are now $7.95

[AKA2D '91]

LMAO!

Yep, that's the flutophone. I still have it. We learned to play it by numbers.

[NOWorNEVER]

I played the trombone from 6th to 9th grades and my brother played the trumpet. Both instruments are somewhere in the basement collecting dust.

[Dedicated1]

I played the trumpet from 6th-12th grade:cool:

[Blessed1]

-Played the flute in elementary school, picking it up again now

-Started playing the piano in elementary school and though I'm not great.... I could fake it if I had to

-Play the violin.... I've only been studying it seriously for about 2 years or so

-My main instrument is voice. I'm a voice major in school, and I auditioned about 2 weeks ago for the Washington Opera Chorus.

[BLUTANG]

i can sound decent on a saxaphone or trumpet if need be, but my principle instruments are

piano
clarinet
french horn

[ladygreek]

took lessons on piano and violin,
self-taught ukelele, guitar...

but play none of them very well :D

[mela3]

I began playing the violin in school in the sixth grade and I played all the way up through high school. I stopped when I got to college, but I am eager to start up again.

I began playing the clarinet in the eighth grade. I even played it in my high school band, but I stopped when I went to college. :(

My dad finally taught me how to play the flute when I was 16.

One of my life goals is to learn how to play the piano, but I haven't begun to attempt that feat yet.

[Ideal08]

Originally posted by NOWorNEVER
I played the trombone

ME TOO!!! I played 6th and 7th grade.

[DirectorDST99]

Ok who did NOT play the recorder in elementary school? Shame on your principal if you didn't .

Elementary - Recorder and xylophone (My recorder cost $1.25)

7th through 12th - flute and piccolo


Blast from the Past - Won 3rd place in 7th grade at a Talent Show playing "Chariots of Fire" by ear.

[BLUTANG]

Originally posted by ladygreek
took lessons on piano and violin,
self-taught ukelele, guitar...

but play none of them very well :D

OMG!!! i forced my parents into buying me a ukelele... the one and only time i used the "imma tell grandpa on you" it worked! (grandpa was a music teacher, so he would have been very upset thay my parents were denying 'that baby' the chance to explore new musical abilities). i never bothered to learn to play it correctly, though... :(

[starang21]

violin and piano when i was a kid, the only one i play now is the CD player.

[starang21]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: cheap flute

http://www.ruthiesmusic.net/media/1810.gif
RECORDER

The one we used were dark brown and plastic. I had never heard of the flutophone til your post, but I see it is related to a recorder.

http://www.ruthiesmusic.net/media/1812.jpg
FLUTOPHONE

According to Ruthie's music, they are now $7.95


weren't those the ones they found in the cereal boxes when we were kids?

[NUPE4LIFE]

SAXOPHONE! Alto and Baritone to be exact.

[miseducated]

Played the recorder in elementary schl :p

Played piano 6-7th grade, I still read notes and can still play ok, I want to go back and brush up
Played bass guitar in 6-7th grade, loved it, made me feel cool
Also wanted to take drum and trumpet lessons, but my music teacher told me to chill, too many instruments :rolleyes:

[DigitalAngel126]

Originally posted by NUPE4LIFE
SAXOPHONE! Alto and Baritone to be exact.

yea yea!!! alto here!!


Also used to play violin, a little guitar, and a bit of piano.

[ladeia]

I was a dork! I played the Booza and Triangle.
:D

LaDeia
"...keeping it simple..."
-on a beautican's mirror

[brickhouse492]

I played the cymbols in Howard's Marching Band. 10 lbs each and I'm petite. Tenor drum and xylophone where cool but I was such a brickhouse on the cymbols. Not like I can use this talent in a beauty pagent or anything. I've been able to share this talent with a few highschoolers in my day though.

[blackcoffee]

I played the clarinet (bass and alto). For those who don't know, the bass and alto clarinets are kind of shaped like a saxophone.

I also played the recorder.

[blackcoffee]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ladeia
[B]I was a dork! I played the Booza and Triangle.
:D

Ok, pardon my ignorance, but WHAT IS A BOOZA?? :)

[Eclipse]

I played the piano for 3 weeks one summer--or I should say I took piano lessons for about 3 weeks. I had to let Mrs. King go. Lessons were on Saturday morning and she was cutting into my cartoons/Frosted Flakes time.

I played flute in Junior High. I can honestly admit now that I was not good. I knew all of the figure positions, could read music but the sounds coming out :eek: :eek: :eek: My 9th grade year my band director (bless Mr. Oliver's heart) "promoted" me to Drum Majorette for the marching band. Pays to be tall! :D My parents made me play flute because my older sister played flute. After the piano fiasco they were not shelling out cash for an instrument that would only last 3 weeks!

I can now proudly admit that I am musically challenged! LOL I also could not carry a tune if you put it in a bucket with a handle!!

[Pebbles35]

I started my music career in 3rd grade playing - the clarinet... I continue playing that instrument throughout HS in both the Marching Band and Orchestra because my mother bought that instrument instead of renting, like all my friends who quitted parents did... I was forced to play because my mother threatened to kill me if I stopped, after all, I was not going to waste her good money...:rolleyes:

I started playing the violin and viola in 9th grade, because the HS Band Director needed warm bodies to play in his new String Orchestra... So again, I was forced to play those instruments!

Then in college, I was recruited to play in the Jazz Workshop and started playing the flute, but I still played the clarinet, but I also started playing the piano, which is now the only instrument I play and planning to teach my children how to play:cool:

[Gyrl7]

I played the flute and the clarinet.

I wanted to play the frech horn, but my music teacher said it was too heavy and weighed more than I did.:rolleyes:

[lil_sunshine]

The flute and clarinet in elementary school, the clarinet in JHS, and I can play a keyboard/piano now. I like playing the Halloween theme and Rugrats theme as well on a keyboard or piano....:D :cool:

[ladeia]

To blackcoffee:
Sorry it took so long to reply: I meant to say bazooka. Yes I played the BAZOOKA in the 7th grade band. :D

LaDeia
"...:p ..."
-from a three year old boy

[sphinxpoet]

I play the Piano!

[Krisco]

Played the oboe and flute during junior and high school. Flute only first 2 years of college. Now i am just on the guitar mostly. I still play the flute occasionally though.

[wrigley]

I learned to play the clarinet in 7th grade and played through high school. I took up the bassoon when I was a sophmore in high school and played til I graduated. I didn't play in college. I'd like to learn how to play the saxophone or oboe.

My brother learned to play the violin in third grade and stopped in 6th grade. He switched to the drums in seventh grade and was in his college marching band all four years.

[jojapeach]

I played the viola in Grades 4-6. I loved playing the viola because it made such beautiful sounds. Everyone played the violin (look in the thread!), so I liked being unique. Believe it or not, my mom made me quit because she said she wanted me to take gym so I could lose weight. :o The sad part? I'm still full-figured, and I'll always be thick at the very least.

I'll probably pick it back up again in the future for two reasons. I have developed a fondness for classical music, and Ken Ford puts in work when he plays jazz violin! Maybe I can learn how to "jam" on the strings....

[DIVA1177]

I started Playing Piano and reading music in Kindergarten. I played the recorder in 2nd grade. Played the Violin and the Clarinet in 3-5th grade. I played Piano until 7th grade. I stayed with the Violin from 3rd grade up though. I stoped playing Clarinet because my teacher at the time said I was spending too much time out of her class with Gifted, Violin AND Clarinet. So I had to pick one. I'm glad I stayed with Violin though. I got a great Stradivarious out of it, I was damn good(no modesty up in herre:D ;) ) and I made all of the older advanced students jealous. The haters...:rolleyes: :rolleyes: but I digress LOL!

I wanted to play viola and cello. I LOVE the way they sound...very deep, rich especially with a great virbrato on it. But I was section leader. I wasn't giving that up.

[rho4life]

I play the CD player, the radio, and Media Player on the 'puter

;)

[Ms.Thang319]

Clarinet from 4-6th grade and finally realized I couldn't play. I was just doing it to get out of class an hour every week

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by rho4life
I play the CD player, the radio, and Media Player on the 'puter

;)

you're going straight to hayle in the handbasket for that one.:o

[Sugar_N_Spice]

I played the saxophone for a bit while I was in high school :)...But my favorite instrument is the trumpet (my sister plays it :D)...

[KSigkid]

I played saxophone in junior high...in high school though it was basically a choice between music and sports, and that wasn't a hard choice at all. I dropped the saxophone as fast as I could.

I was ok, and probably would have been pretty solid if I kept with it...but I didn't.

[Rain Man]

I played the cornet in middle school (6th and 7th grade). I was in marching band and jazz band. My favorite songs to play were Fiddler on the Roof, Aura Lee, and the theme to St. Elsewhere.

I also performed the theme to Dynasty in a talent show (psyche). I wish I did, though.

While it was a good experience, by 8th grade I lost interest and never pursued music again.

[DIVA1177]

Originally posted by rho4life
I play the CD player, the radio, and Media Player on the 'puter

;)

That's hot.:D :D That's what I play now...

[ImaDiamond]

These are the following instruments I have played:

recorder - 3rd - 5th at Northview elementary (Olathe, KS)

tried the violin, but didn't quite get that to work for me in 6th, so moved on to the clarinet - 6th through 9th

Wasn't in band 10th grade

Played in the pit (which consists of the bass drum, miramba, triangle, bells, guiro, xylophone, cymbals, and some snare) in 11th grade.

Didn't play in band in 12th

I have played the tambourine in church all my life (pretty much anyway)

[ShiningStar83]

I play piano and drums

[reddawn18]

the Piano until I gave it up. Sorry I did. I could have been like Alicia by now!

[1browngirl]

From 6th grade to 9th grade I played the saxophone.

I also played the piano, until my junior yr in college.

I didn't keep up and practice either one very much after I got older, I can still (barely) play the piano. I'm thinking about taking lessons again.

[KellyB369]

Flute in 6-9th grades. But my nice flute got stolen during gym class in 8th grade and I had to borrow my friends old, yucky one after that. It was nice of her to loan it to me, but it was not shiny and new like mine. Realized by 10th grade that band was not for me. Now I wish I hadn't quit.

[Missam05]

I played the trumpet from 6-10th grade..even made it to first chair and section leader..our little phrase/signature mark was T-dogs (we lifted our trumpets in one hand to form the top of the T and the other was the line at the bottom)..[pause] woof woof..we were crunk!!

[kissy324]

Violin is my passion- been playing since I was in the 2nd grade.

Piano is my second passion- started playing in Junior high.

I played the flute and clarinet for 1 year- didn't like them. I love my string instruments (I guess you can say I love percussion instruments also, since the piano is considered a string and percussion instrument).

[Angelicqt716]

~played the recorder in elementary for music class
~played clarinet 6th-12th
~and marched saxaphone my senior year in highschool

Now.... I play NOTHING. *my band director really made me hate it after I got out*

[RedAngel]

Organ from 4th grade to 6th grade.
Flute from 5th grade to present.
Recorder from 6th grade to 8th grade.
Drums from 9th grade to 10th grade.
Piccolo from 9th grade to 11th grade.

When I was in high school band was like a sport. Very, very competitive. By the time I was a sophomore I was one of 14 junior conductors and was permitted to re-write music for the band. You worked out on the track field (whether in rain or snow flurries). The practices were taped so they can determine who was out of step and that person was pulled aside after band rehearsal. As strict as our instructor was it paid off when we were invited to the Bahamas for three straight years when I was in high school for competition. The last year I was in band---we placed first.

Now, I don't compete anymore but I do occasionally tutor.

[Renegade02]

Played in Kindermusic when I was a baby
Piano until I couldn't take it anymore
Clarinet through middle school
Oboe at 8th grade until present
Xylo for marching band--
Back to oboe for college

I ended up getting a minor in music for oboe performance at UNC-Greensboro. I was really good at it, but havent touched it in about a year...trying to graduate first.
I was the shyt at xylo, much better than oboe, thanks to Ms. Adkins at Scotland High school.

--Now that I think about it, there are some talented black folk that play music!!!! I was the only oboist in my school(college)--

[MadeNupe8]

The diamond has arrived. Pretty boy in the building!

[MadeNupe8]

Kissy324 have you ever heard of Boyd Tinsley

[kissy324]

Originally posted by MadeNupe8
Kissy324 have you ever heard of Boyd Tinsley


Yes I have!! He's a violinist, and he has a CD, "True Reflections".

[MadeNupe8]

Yeah, but check out dave matthews band. He is south african a lot of people don't even know that..they are tight...where you made at?

[kissy324]

Originally posted by MadeNupe8
Yeah, but check out dave matthews band. He is south african a lot of people don't even know that..they are tight...where you made at?


Ok, that's right. I forgot that he is a member of the Dave Matthews Band. I'm going to have to look into them more. I know he is a South African, and he grew up in Virginia.

If you mean where am I from... Cleveland, Ohio!!!!

[MadeNupe8]

Hit me up on aol LiLripster82

[burgertown]

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

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

[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 :D and I just fell in love with this instrment.

Below is a my favorite instument

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o212/Abarimah/dseconds1.jpg

[_Opi_]

I can play few notes on the acoustic guitar. Must find a teacher soon.

[unspokenone25]

I played the flute in elementary and middle school. Still break it out every now and again...

I really want to learn how to play the piano so I can write music. Took piano lessons until I was 6 so only know how to play the scales and "Mary had a Little Lamb."

[DLTA22]

Way back in the good ole 80's (man those were some good times to grow up)
I played guitar and was in the band. Then I graduated to the Flute where I learned to huff and puff from 7th -12th grades. I can still whistle an ole tune if you try me!!

Band and chorus were a staple in every public school, and they took them away not knowing how damaging it would be to kids.

p.s. I had a secret jones for playing the saxophone, I used to wish I could play it, but my teacher was sexist and only allowed to boys to play. Guess he knew the secret it hold!!!

Enjoy Ladies

[squirrely girl]

too many - flute, sax, bassoon, and violin

[PoodlePrints]

the flute & piano ... but not since high school.

[StarFish106]

The Clarinet from 3rd to 7th Grade....got bored and wanted the sax but that wasn't happening..still have the clarinet. I always related to Vanessa on the Cosby show when she played it. Took piano lessons and even had an organ at home.

Dad played the drums and later I wished that is what I stuck with!

[BellaSF]

The instrument I played in elmentary school was the triangle...lol. I serously did! By the time I reached high school I knew making music wasn't my thing so I became a Flag girl/Dancer for my school's band.

[SigmaRhoyalty2K1]

i played clarinet from 6th grade to my freshmen year of college. i switched to french horn in marching band and regular, alto and bass clarinet in concert band. i still play when i get a chance but there's nothing like playing in a hbcu marching band. the memories... :)

[MsDelta797]

I played the clarinet for nine years. Because of it as every clarinet player knows, you have to move your pinkys out of the way. I still do this to this day when I am holding cups, sodas, etc. Needless to say my AKA friends(one whom I went to high school with and who also played the clarinet) clowned me alot:) It's all good though. I do miss playing though. I recently found out that my LS also played and has that pinky thing. I was like thank goodness I am not the only Delta that sticks out a pinky. Hee Hee.:p

[PHA_luv]

I played the flute for 4 years as a member of concert band & pep band. I still try to pick it up from time to time but my reading music skills are getting rusty Lol.

[mmbrown23]

Piano - 5th - 6th grade
Recorder - 5th grade
Clarinet - 6th - 11th grade (1st chair in high school)
Tenor Sax - concert band and 12th grade (wanted to play tuba)

[Krisco]

I played oboe and flute 7-12th grades!

That reed for oboe was horrendous to moisten and expensive to buy then!

I loved the flute, but, doing solos in class and on the field sucked big time, but I did my thang ladies!!!

[MexicanMami0286]

in college and play alto sax, clarinet, and flute. gotta keep that jazz thang alive. :D i'm trying to form a band after i graduate.

[raggann03]

I played piano from the ages of 6 to about 11/12. I played clarinet 5th-7th grade. I think I'm gonna take up piano again, I kinda miss it.

[icebrAKA]

I played the flute from 5th-12th grade

Clarinet every now and again

[FeeFee]

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. :cool:

[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

[unspokenone25]

Soror SC,

The flute I had was a Bundy. I played it from 3rd-8th grade. I never got a split lip from all of those years. Hope that helps.

[PhDiva]

Piano...but then my piano teacher had a heart attack (and dropped dead) while giving me my lesson and I could never play again. I was 6 y/o when this happened.

[CrimsonTide4]

Piano...but then my piano teacher had a heart attack (and dropped dead) while giving me my lesson and I could never play again. I was 6 y/o when this happened.


:eek: :eek: :eek: I imagine not.

[Bajan_Delta]

I played the recorder, flute and piano for many many many years. I'm not nearly as good as my brothers, one of whom has been playing the steel pan since he was 3. The other one has been playing the piano since he was 4. I'm the loser of the bunch:(

[Still BLUTANG]

that must have been awful! Now i feel bad about all those lessons i took when i WISHED the instructor would drop dead. awwwww.

Piano...but then my piano teacher had a heart attack (and dropped dead) while giving me my lesson and I could never play again. I was 6 y/o when this happened.

[RhoPsiDST]

I played the flute and tri-toms

[Shona71]

The recorder (lol I think we ALL had to play that thing in elementary school), the flute, piccolo (basically same as flute), and a little guitar (acoustic)

[black_princess]

I played the flute and tri-toms

Just wondering . . .what are tri-toms ??:confused: