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Piano for eighteen years, voice for pretty much forever, and bass guitar for about six years before I stopped (not out of boredom, but because I was too lazy to cut my nails XD).

Perigryn - I did Joseph in Toronto when I was eleven! I'd just barely missed the Donny Osmond run, but it was still good times. ^^

I can't play any instruments, but that hasn't stopped me from putting out a couple records and endless demos. Psychedelic folksy stuff. I know the rudiments of playing piano, but that's about it, would love to learn for real someday.

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Perigryn - I did Joseph in Toronto when I was eleven! I'd just barely missed the Donny Osmond run, but it was still good times. ^^

Haha! Awesome. Oh Donny...

Yeah, it's pretty good times, very campy, though, slash, my director's kinda' crazy... which is really driving me nuts, which I'm really looking forward to the show's end so I can move out west to Vancouver and really pursue my acting career.

Doing any shows now?

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

I've played bass for about 5 years now, and I do some vocals, mostly screaming type death metal stuff. My brother-in-law and I are trying to start a band but drummers are hard to come by around here

I've been playing bass since I was in Grade 7, and I'm in year 2 of Uni.

I usually practice whenever I have free time.
RHCP = massive influence (Flea and whatnot)
Vicky Wooten, too :]

I've been playing guitar for about 11 years.
Not really a shredder or anything but I've gotten pretty good at playing what I like and just riffing general stuff when I'm sitting around bored.

Mostly I wanted to comment on the beauty that is the Gibson pics in here... WOW! That's pretty much all I can say!

I play the piano, and informally the harpsichord as well.

I'm currently learning the organ.

I also sing, informally, and write music sometimes.

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Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

For the last year or so my main focus has been the whistle. I've got a variety of tin whistles and a Ukrainian sopilka that I've been putting to use in a folk ensemble. We have gig next Saturday actually, the fourth or fifth I'll have performed in with them.

I've taken to collecting instruments in general, some of which I can play and others of which I can stare at. Acoustic guitar is my favorite - I've been playing for ten years or so - though its grown rusty (moldy?) over the past year due to my focus on the whistle. I played/performed sax as a kid and have played bass live. Everything else I just tinker with. I can pull off a lot of Irish folk tunes on mandolin, though not well enough to perform yet. There is currently a goat skin bagpipe in the corner of my room. I can't make sound come out of it at all.

My favorite guitar is my Cordoba Gitano D-5, gypsy jazz, though Django's ears would bleed to hear me. I get a huge kick out of doing folk punk music, and can be heard annoying party-goers with acoustic renditions of Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Pogues, and Against Me! songs from time to time. I break acoustic guitar strings on a daily basis, which is expensive and probably not what people like to listen to. >_> I only use Clayton 1mm picks, those really skinny ones.

I played electric guitar in a grunge band for about two months last year, but it didn't pan out because the lifestyle just didn't suit me. I wish I could play piano.

Vocally I've been trying to develop a more gravely voice, with some success. I sing along with Tom Waits in my car a lot and frighten people in traffic jams.

This post has been edited by Shad on 22nd March 2010 01:41

My family and I went to Hawaii this past Christmas, and I became interested in the ukulele while we were there. Fortunately, my birthday is roughly a month after Christmas, so I was able to get one!

I gotta say, I really love it. I greatly prefer it over guitar, since I find it much easier than guitar (also, I'm pretty damn bad at guitar). Novelty value is always a plus as well, as no one expects the Spanish Inquis-I mean, no one expects someone to plug an acoustic-electric ukulele into an amp and proceed to play the Pokémon theme song.
I've been meaning to get a tenor ukulele - which is larger and more guitar sounding - for some time now, but the one I'm looking at is about $350, and I work part-time, not making much more than minimum wage.

That said, thank heavens I'm in college and still live with my parents.

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EGG TOSS
YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
LEMON-DY
HEAD SAUCE
JIM CARREY
IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
DAFFY-ROTH
- brentalfloss

I play Flamenco and Electric guitar
I'm picking up Gustav Ficker violin and cello
also grand piano [I have to learn Bach's suite no.1 for my fourth car]
Mstislav cello is better in G major


Ukulele does something to the soul
with four strings of clear nylon
it is incredible


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