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irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 00:09:45
I've realized that most of the users of this forum play more than one instrument, so I've come up with this question.
Would you like to learn any other instrument? Why?
I particularly have to say that I wouldn't. I'm fine with my banjo-mando-dulcimer trio and it's enough for me.
Well, I also play the guitar, so I guess if I had to choose one it'd be de Dobro, though I'm not really interested at all.
PaulR - Posted - 01/06/2011: 02:30:05
I play guitar (acoustic and electric, banjo, mandolin, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp, and electric bass guitar.
I always wanted to play violin. I'd also like to learn pennywhistle.
mandogryl - Posted - 01/06/2011: 02:33:35
I've wanted to play the cello.
I already play the guitar, mandolin and fiddle, and I have grown to love the sound of the cello as well.
I guess I will have to build one at some point.
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 03:20:56
quote:
Originally posted by PaulR
I'd also like to learn pennywhistle.
The pennywhistle is like the Irish tin whistle?
Susan H - Posted - 01/06/2011: 03:30:44
I play fiddle, still learning that and loving it. It has really helped my mandolin playing. I play at the banjo, and enough guitar to be dangerous. Last Sunday I got to sit next to a french horn player. Ever since I was a little girl and saw a quartet play, and I have wanted to take up the french horn. At present I really don't have the lungs for it and with me still "learning" fiddle/violin I don't think my husband would be too keen on me taking it up. And I think my dog might object as well...
UsuallyPickin - Posted - 01/06/2011: 04:05:45
I play guitar I play mandolin I fiddle .... I own a banjo but I can't really play it.... I wish I could get a 5 string implant... then a standup to round things out... oh yeah a G,A,B and C at the top of my vocal range since I'm wishing ... oh yeah!
Tomm - Posted - 01/06/2011: 05:36:08
Well, I started as a drummer at14. Learned guitar while playing in bands. I was blown away by Mason Williams "Classical Gas" so I really gravitated to acoustic guitar. I learned to play (around) on the banjo during those times when I was asked to play for some folks doing "Gentle on My Mind" during a high school talent show. Kept messing with it after that.
During the "band" days, and a life time of church choirs and praise band, I've learned to get by on piano/ keyboard. I really didn't start playing mandolin until about 10 years ag0, but really enjoy it. Our band plays musical chairs instruments so we have 4 mandolin players. I like it when I'm the fitting player for a tune. I also play double bass and bass guitar.
Guess with all that said, I would like to learn bowing so I could try and tackle violin, cello and such. I think I would have to turn 24 hr days to 36 though 
fred davis - Posted - 01/06/2011: 06:01:46
Already play mandolin, 4-5-6 banjos, Ukulele, and for the last 18 month been working on slack key guitar and lap guitar. J oined a harmonica group in Dec but as of now my heart isin hawiian music
Woodman - Posted - 01/06/2011: 06:27:31
Played guitar off and on for years until arthritis in the second joint of my thumb made 4 finger and barre chords too painful. Took up mandolin a few months ago. A decidedly good idea! Haven't enjoyed making music so much in years.
Attempted fiddle 20 years ago but lost it in a flood before I got far. Having so much fun with the mando I'll probably try again. One son has one I can play with. Was gifted a Fender resonator guitar by another son a few years back so I'm adding a higher nut to give dobro a try too. Got my hands on an acoustic bass at a family reunion jam last fall and had so much fun that I'm jonesing bad for one of my own now.
I'm having such a good time with my new mandolin, I'm hesitant to scatter effort/time at the expense of progress with it. On the other hand, fun is fun and it keeps the old man off the streets and out of trouble.
Mandolin Ant - Posted - 01/06/2011: 06:44:54
I currently play Mandolin, guitar, bass, piano, Trombone, drum kit, and working on fiddle.
I've always wanted to learn the banjo. But currently learning the fiddle is proving to be very difficult. Why can't they put frets on those things and let me play it with a pick??? Oh yeah, I guess that would pretty much make it a Mandolin! LOL!
Edited by - Mandolin Ant on 01/06/2011 06:45:29
H20 - Posted - 01/06/2011: 07:52:16
like mandogry l I think the cello would be cool! To bad I did not realize that when my oldest daughter played it for 8 years! Hearing Nancy and Norman's stuff with Nancy playing the cello just rocks!
TimK - Posted - 01/06/2011: 09:49:36
I don't plan on learning any new instruments. I have my hands full with the ones I currently play. In order of priority & ability: Fiddle, Bass (stand up & electric) Guitar (accoustic & electric) Mandolin, Banjo (claw hammer), Pedal Steel Guitar, Bodhran.
Gerry Cassidy - Posted - 01/06/2011: 13:00:08
I started on trumpet in the 3rd grade then came the rest...
... Mandolin Family, Tenor Banjo, Guitar, Piano, Cello, and played the Bass professionally for TOO many years! I lugged a doghouse around for many of those years until I met Steve Azola and he built me a slammin' EUB.
I have spent a lifetime learning stringed instruments. I would really like to try to learn to play my favorite instrument (besides Annie Wilson's voice) the Oboe. Not only a departure as a reeded instrument, but a double reed!
A new desire to come about as far as learning to play something is the Uilean Pipe.
Edited by - Gerry Cassidy on 01/06/2011 13:57:40
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 13:02:01
quote:
Originally posted by Mandolin Ant
I've always wanted to learn the banjo
I've been playing the banjo for 8 months or so, and it's not as difficult as I expected. I play clawhammer style, and a little of Scruggs style, though it's pretty difficult for me... Anyway, I prefer the old-timey sound of clawhammer banjo than the bluegrassy sound of the Scruggs style.
What impresses me is that I thought it'd be very difficult, 'cause it's a very special instrument, very different from any other instruments, but in 8 months I've learned to play many tunes and play and improvise pretty well, so I guess I was wrong :)
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 13:03:41
quote:
Originally posted by Gerry Cassidy
and played the Bass professionally for TOO many years!
I've tried playing bass (electric and upright), and it's easy, though I haven't become a bass player 'cause during 6 months I fiddled around with a friend's bass I got awfully painful blisters on my fingers :S
Gerry Cassidy - Posted - 01/06/2011: 14:02:41
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Originally posted by irishbanjos
quote:
Originally posted by Gerry Cassidy
and played the Bass professionally for TOO many years!
I've tried playing bass (electric and upright), and it's easy, though I haven't become a bass player 'cause during 6 months I fiddled around with a friend's bass I got awfully painful blisters on my fingers :S
Hey now, don't get fooled into thinking the Bass is an easy instrument to play. Any instrument is easy to sit down and plunk away on, but to play it correctly is a different story.
I can smell a guitar player trying to play the Bass from a mile away!
Bassora - Posted - 01/06/2011: 16:02:20
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The pennywhistle is like the Irish tin whistle?
Penny whistle is also known as the Irish whistle and tin whistle; having six holes (if I remember right). They play within a single key; different size pennywhistles are in different keys.
It's in the same family as the recorder and Native American/American Indian flute.
They all have fipples, a type of mouthpiece. (You never know when they will ask about fipples on Jeopardy!)
Bassora
music teacher along the Muddy Mo
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Bassora - Posted - 01/06/2011: 16:05:12
What instrument would I like to learn to play?
I'd like to really get good on the resophonic guitar/dobro. Very cool sound.
Bassora
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un5trung - Posted - 01/06/2011: 20:36:04
First off I'm more than busy enough with what I'm already playing, But I would like to get into resophinic/slide guitar. Then more in the fantasy realm I'd like to play the Appalachian dulcimer and the Baroque recorder. But I'm mediocre enough at the instruments I already play any discussion of moving on is kinda silly . . . I've got to concentrate on the challenges already at hand.
dmiller - Posted - 01/06/2011: 21:08:50
Penny whistle for myself also. I love the sound of those things in certain tunes.
I never could learn the proper "breath technique" to get them to play right though.
FYI - - - Penny whistles (these days) cost more than just a penny!
Mr Sean - Posted - 01/06/2011: 23:06:16
I would love to be able to play the pedal steel guitar. However there are just not enough days in the week to add the practice time in would need to my banjo, mandolin and guitar playing.
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 23:12:07
quote:
Originally posted by Gerry Cassidy
Hey now, don't get fooled into thinking the Bass is an easy instrument to play. Any instrument is easy to sit down and plunk away on, but to play it correctly is a different story.
Yeah, you're right... Anyway, there are some good guitarists that are also great bassists.
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 23:13:36
quote:
Originally posted by Bassora
Penny whistle is also known as the Irish whistle and tin whistle; having six holes (if I remember right). They play within a single key; different size pennywhistles are in different keys.
I used to have one of these, but didn't like it at all...
BTW, how is a Native American flute?
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 23:14:25
quote:
Originally posted by Bassora
I'd like to really get good on the resophonic guitar/dobro. Very cool sound.
Check out this guy:
youtube.com/robadobro
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/06/2011: 23:15:33
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Sean
I would love to be able to play the pedal steel guitar.
It's a cool instrument, though I don't understand what the pedals are for :S
TSSN - Posted - 01/07/2011: 05:22:38
The mando is foremost (and likely will be for a loooooooong time). Where I am going next is the tin whistle. I have one already, and the funny thing is that if I play something in my house that is "annoying" it's the whistle!
Although I must say that it is far more difficult to play through mistakes on a whistle, esp. at low speeds. It is much less forgiving that way.
Long term plans: fiddle.
Mr Sean - Posted - 01/07/2011: 05:53:21
quote:
Originally posted by irishbanjos
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Sean
I would love to be able to play the pedal steel guitar.
It's a cool instrument, though I don't understand what the pedals are for :S
Accelerator and brake I believe.
Edited by - Mr Sean on 01/07/2011 05:56:00
PaulR - Posted - 01/07/2011: 05:54:39
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Originally posted by irishbanjos
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Sean
I would love to be able to play the pedal steel guitar.
It's a cool instrument, though I don't understand what the pedals are for.
Not just pedals, but knee levers as well. They attach to rollers at the ends of the string, to raise or lower the pitch of each string (sort of like the whammy bar on an electric guitar). I think you'd need an engineering degree to "operate" a pedal steel.
You can approximate the sound by getting a Tele and having a b-string bender installed. It moves the b-string through a mechanism that attaches to the top strap button. The late, great Clarence White used the first one.
Edited by - PaulR on 01/08/2011 10:23:30
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/07/2011: 06:18:02
quote:
Originally posted by PaulR
I think you'd need an engineerong degree to "operate" a pedal steel.
I think so... It seems like a really complicated instrument :O
Mandolin Ant - Posted - 01/07/2011: 07:02:16
...How about Saxaphone. A tenor perhaps. I've always been facinated by the sax. Maybe after a few more years of working on the fiddle, I'll pick up the saxaphone...
Connor Briggs - Posted - 01/07/2011: 08:42:29
I play the Mandolin,Fiddle,Guitar, and upright Bass. I've been wanting to learn the Ukulele, but it's not quite the "bluegrass" sound that I have found to love. :D
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/07/2011: 12:23:28
quote:
Originally posted by Mandolin Ant
...How about Saxaphone.
The sax was my first instrument, but I gave up a few months after starting, 'cause my gums and lips started to bleed because of the way you place it in your mouth...
WildBillNECPS - Posted - 01/07/2011: 14:50:51
Cajun/Zydeco style accordion. I just love that music.
DLC - Posted - 01/07/2011: 21:24:45
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Originally posted by Mr Sean
I would love to be able to play the pedal steel guitar. However there are just not enough days in the week to add the practice time in would need to my banjo, mandolin and guitar playing.
SIMPLE.
3 pedals, 1 knee lever.
Count pedals from the outside.
E9 Nashville tuning
Open strings 3, 4, 5 and 6 are an E maj (number 1 in the Nashville number system). Pedals 1 and 2 raise the chord to A maj (number 4). Pedals 2 and 3 raise the chord to F# m (number 2). Pedal 2 and knee lever change the chord to B maj (number 5). Pedal 1 changes the chord to C# m (number 6).
NOW, LET'S WORK IN THE BAR:
Pedals 2 and 3 - bar at 2nd fret - raises the chord to G# m (number 3). Pedal 1 - bar at 2nd fret - changes the chord to D# m (which can substitute nicely for number 7).
THOSE are the chords in the E major scale.
To change keys, just go to the fret that gives you the "open" 1 chord.
This is a drastically simplified explanation, yeah. But it's the hardest thing about playing. After that, it gets more interesting.
Good luck!
DLC - Posted - 01/07/2011: 21:30:18
quote:
Originally posted by Mandolin Ant
...How about Saxaphone. A tenor perhaps. I've always been facinated by the sax. Maybe after a few more years of working on the fiddle, I'll pick up the saxaphone...
Buy one of these and learn to play it. The primary fingerings are basically the same as a saxophone, as well as many other woodwinds.
folk-instruments.musiciansfrie...ku=464252Good luck!
Mr Sean - Posted - 01/08/2011: 02:17:23
quote:
Originally posted by DLC
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Sean
I would love to be able to play the pedal steel guitar. However there are just not enough days in the week to add the practice time in would need to my banjo, mandolin and guitar playing.
SIMPLE.
3 pedals, 1 knee lever.
Count pedals from the outside.
E9 Nashville tuning
This is a drastically simplified explanation, yeah. But it's the hardest thing about playing. After that, it gets more interesting.
Good luck!
My wife will never forgive you if you tempt me into buying a pedal steel. She already has had to put up with Cripple Creek about 600 times on the banjo.
DLC - Posted - 01/08/2011: 20:36:32
quote:
Originally posted by irishbanjos
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Originally posted by DLC
folk-instruments.musiciansfrie...ku=464252
What's that? In which music genre is it used?
Actually, it's not used in any specific music.
It's a plastic "toy" instrument kids in elementary school learn to play when they're learning to read and play music. I learned to play it at 8, and I was astounded to realize how close it was to sax playing when I got into the 6th grade and into saxophone. I was eventually a woodwinds major, and realized that most WW instruments are played more or less the same way. I could play almost all of them simply because I'd learned to play the Flutophone as a kid.
But even adults can learn the most important points of basic saxophone note fingering by playing the Flutophone.
irishbanjos - Posted - 01/09/2011: 14:02:25
quote:
Originally posted by DLC
Actually, it's not used in any specific music.
It's a plastic "toy" instrument kids in elementary school learn to play when they're learning to read and play music. I learned to play it at 8, and I was astounded to realize how close it was to sax playing when I got into the 6th grade and into saxophone. I was eventually a woodwinds major, and realized that most WW instruments are played more or less the same way. I could play almost all of them simply because I'd learned to play the Flutophone as a kid.
But even adults can learn the most important points of basic saxophone note fingering by playing the Flutophone.
Oh, OK. Here in Spain, children play plastic or wooden recorders to learn to read/play music at school instead of this instrument.
Maybe they should give this instrument a try, 'cause the recorders they use sound awful!
fred davis - Posted - 01/10/2011: 18:37:48
I'm starting my lap steel lessons on the 12 and my wife and I teach ukulele at the senior center and love the sound of hawiian music
Terry Allan Hall - Posted - 04/03/2012: 10:30:44
Wish I could frail a 5-string better...working on it, though.
And I wish my fiddle playing didn't sound like somebody doing something unspeakable to a cat with a soldering iron (my bowing technique is absolutely the worst! 
)...
I'm good with the rest of it. 
mojohand40 - Posted - 04/04/2012: 03:37:58
I've played pedal steel a little...but kinda' gave it up awhile back (still have my pedal steel though) . It's a difficult instrument, but rewarding. I took a few lessons, etc.
here's me: youtube.com/watch?v=XN-AJRwozyc
my advice for would be peddlers, start with a lap steel. I played lap steel (non pedal steel) for a long while before playing pedal. Heck, I still fool around with lap steel. It's a great way to get the basics/hardest parts of pedal steel down without spending a fortune, and seeing if it's for you.
Here's one of my lap steels: youtube.com/watch?v=pL3JhCL_RB...e=channel
and another: (ahh...classic country): youtube.com/watch?v=7Tn-3uHJvJ...re=relmfu
now in days, besides mandolin, I strictly stick to fiddle. I've tried a lot of instruments over the years, but I think I'll stick with fiddle and mandolin.
pickn pete - Posted - 04/05/2012: 04:39:40
drums..
pickn pete - Posted - 04/05/2012: 04:40:35
drums..
Mandolin Ant - Posted - 04/05/2012: 07:12:55
I currently play piano, guitar, bass, mandolin, drums, and Trombone.
Aside from Banjo, which I'll probably try next, I'd Love to learn the fiddle, Cello, and BAG PIPES! I've heard the pipes are really hard to learn and the learning process is extremly painful to anyone within hearing distance!
I'd Love to learn the pedal steel also. From what I gather, the pedals are for raising or lowering the pitch which gives it that haunting sound. Anyway, I know a guy that plays it and he's absolutely amazing...
Jim Yates - Posted - 04/24/2012: 06:49:57
I rarely see an instrument that I wouldn't like to learn, but I'm trying to specialize a little more. I probably would have been a much better guitar player if I'd stuck to it and not tried to branch out so much.
To quote Maggie, my darlin', lovely wife, "The concept of enough just hasn't gotten through to Jim."
swpicker - Posted - 05/02/2012: 13:47:42
Currently I play; mandolin, guitar, bass, guittaron, fiddle, mountain dulcimer, viola, autoharp and ukulele. I've always wanted to learn the trumpet, but I think I'll stick to strings. %-)
mandogryl - Posted - 05/04/2012: 11:07:14
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Originally posted by mandogryl
I've wanted to play the cello.
I already play the guitar, mandolin and fiddle, and I have grown to love the sound of the cello as well.
I guess I will have to build one at some point.
Well, I finally got that cello, and have been taking Suzuki lessons for 7 months. I am loving it.
Sorry to say, that with the fiddle and cello, I just haven't had the time or the inkling to play the mandolin or guitar.
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:Okay, I put out five bucks for the Flutophone. I don't think I'm going to peel the paint with the plastic horn. The past few years I've played harmonica while commuting and can now play anything I can hum. Is there a suggestion for a more methodical way to get the real concepts down that would transfer to the sax or such? I also play 5 string Scruggs, 6 and 12 string guitar so I have experience and some theory to work with. Thanks for the post on an entry level Wind. This looks like a cheaper and easier means than the Xaphoon I was considering.
Originally posted by DLC
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Originally posted by irishbanjos
quote:
Originally posted by DLC
folk-instruments.musiciansfrie...ku=464252
What's that? In which music genre is it used?
Actually, it's not used in any specific music.
It's a plastic "toy" instrument kids in elementary school learn to play when they're learning to read and play music. I learned to play it at 8, and I was astounded to realize how close it was to sax playing when I got into the 6th grade and into saxophone. I was eventually a woodwinds major, and realized that most WW instruments are played more or less the same way. I could play almost all of them simply because I'd learned to play the Flutophone as a kid.
But even adults can learn the most important points of basic saxophone note fingering by playing the Flutophone.
ronwalker49 - Posted - 11/11/2013: 13:12:50
quote:
Originally posted by mandogryl
I've wanted to play the cello.
I already play the guitar, mandolin and fiddle, and I have grown to love the sound of the cello as well.
I guess I will have to build one at some point.
youtube.com/watch?v=lYh0LyhTj_Q
Here is a link to Bruce Molsky's band...He has a Cello player for for a Bassist. I love it!
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