Alex Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Guitar is fairly easy to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxophoneislife Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Oboe and cello. Both very beautiful instruments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Gregson Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 cello, a violin, a viola, a harpsichord, a clavichord, a hurdy-gurdy, a virginal, a lute, a celesta, an ondes martenot, a theremin, all of the woodwinds, a gong, a consort of krumhorns, a personal gamelan orchestra, two jugongs, a giant basilica with a forty-billion rank organ, a personal carillon, and a property thoroughly seeded with earth drums. Damn, I think you have the right idea. Just add some Indian classical instruments. Man, those are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerdol Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 My voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRSB Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Pin whistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luluberyllium Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 banjo-besides the piano i think it's the most beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theshroud13 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Any instrument really, but piano above all because of its usefulness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinzia [the PIRATE] Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 hahaha, well yes actually I feel the same, although I would like to have a go at the oboe: It has such a beautiful, melancholy sound. Yes, know not everyone feels this way about it... :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravels Radical Rivalry Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 I wish I could learn how to play the harp without actually learning how to play. I'm too lazy and actually embarassed as well to leave a store carrying a harp, and also to practice. Why won't a harp just appear and I just know how to play.. people should just be born with the ability to play the harp like Andreas Vollenweider. I know exactly what you mean. I wish I could play the cello and the guitar without actually having to play the cello and the guitar. I love the way the cello sounds all the time and one of my other favorite types of music is classical guitar. The problem with me is that I hate the way it feels to play the cello with it in between the legs. I also would not have the patience to develope the ability to "guess" where the notes are. On the cello you have to puch the string to produce the pitch. On the piano you push a key and if it is not in tune it is not your fault :P. The finger position for the guitar chords don't look really comfortable either. I just don't have the patience to stick with the guitar or the cello. However, I would love the ability to be able to play them minus the hours of pratice and the discomfort that is involved when playing the instruments. This is why I just stick to the piano. :) P.S. - I love the oboe just the way you oboe lovers do. I just don't really have the affinity for an instrument that you have to blow into that some do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinfiddler Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Cello, piano, oboe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MunchoCruncho Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Sitar, classically trained from the youngest possibly age, preferably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 At the moment i really want to learn organ, sounds so majestic and scary. Maek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujimufu Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'd looooove to take up the violin. It's such a great instrument :D Asides from being able to play microtones (which I find amazing, btw), which also implies true glissandi, it has a really amazing sound. Although I would prefer the viola instead, because it has both the high and stressing sound of the violin, and some of the sonority of the cello, which makes it a really great instrument. I once tried to play on the violin of a friend of mine, and within the first few minutes, I managed to get the melody (monophonic) of mozart's "little night music" :D Asides from that, I am a left-handed, something that has really helped me in the piano (my left hand is much better when it comes to arpeggios and quick movements), so I guess taking up the violin won't be such a PITA. Problem is, I need a violin and a teacher. Oh, and some time too... :| I may take it up during my university studies, dunno. I'll see how it comes out :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_the_sane Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I'd love to be able to play the harp. It makes an absolutely awesome sound but it looks extremely complicated!:closedeyes: I think i'll just try and improve my flute and piano playing for now..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zentari Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Mark, let me just say that I'm a flutist of 5 years, and if the flute hurts one's neck, then he (or she) is holding it wrong. The flute plays best when one is the most relaxed (except of course for the arms, which have to hold the flute up....) As for what instruments I wish I could play- the organ, the violin, and the oboe, in that order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Kirk Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 banjo-besides the piano i think it's the most beautiful Hey, I play banjo a bit, it's loads of fun :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinfiddler Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I'd looooove to take up the violin. It's such a great instrument :D Asides from being able to play microtones (which I find amazing, btw), which also implies true glissandi, it has a really amazing sound. Although I would prefer the viola instead, because it has both the high and stressing sound of the violin, and some of the sonority of the cello, which makes it a really great instrument. I once tried to play on the violin of a friend of mine, and within the first few minutes, I managed to get the melody (monophonic) of mozart's "little night music" :shifty: Asides from that, I am a left-handed, something that has really helped me in the piano (my left hand is much better when it comes to arpeggios and quick movements), so I guess taking up the violin won't be such a PITA. Problem is, I need a violin and a teacher. Oh, and some time too... :| I may take it up during my university studies, dunno. I'll see how it comes out ;) Violin is hard, but it's worth the effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinfiddler Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 The viola is harder...It is exactly like a violin except for certain physical things... like the size making the same techniques more athletic (and then because of physics) and less projecting... You should pick it... I like it and it is more of a treasure cove of not that well known by well written pieces... Plus violist make better composers... heh I don't know about violists making better composers, though Dvorak was a violist. I will admit, it is rare to find a good violist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinfiddler Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Well, being at the FMEA conference this weekend.. and playing in the all-state orchestra... (firebird suite.. ye-ah)... I can say.. proportionally... there were just as many good violist as violinist.. and if you make a percent of good players compared to the sectoin... violas were most defiantly higher then violins... and maybe even the cellos.. Quit your bragging. This is a composing website, we should not start a violin/viola war. But for the record, violas.... Just kidding.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinfiddler Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Sorry, I was just trying to act like the usual first violin... Pompous, loud, arrogant, and bragging... duh... didn't you catch that? :D Do you know you are so right? But, how many violists does it take to change a light bulb? Doesn't matter, they can't get that high anyway.:D :P :P Lame joke, but I am purely joking, viola is a great instrument, I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minhman13 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I wish I can play the Ehru. It's a Chinese instrument. I absolutely adore the heart-drenching sound of the instrument. more info on it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Btw there are many more violist-composers than just Dvorak. But I don't know any for who the violia was their main instrument. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven are just 3 examples of which I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aleximo Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 i learnt piano without lessons, i can play chopins fantasie impromptu properly and numerous preludes, i would honestly recommend self teaching it works just as well, you wont nessecerily learn theory unless you want to, but it works all the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aleximo Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 and o umm, i would love to be able to play the violin well, it has the most heart renching noise of any instrument Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur dent Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I'd like to play the Sitar. Or the jaw harp. Killer jaw harp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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