what instrument do you play, and what's so awesome about it?

Guitar. Well, I don't feel much in the tip of my index fingers. It's intrguing I guess. :3

I play guitar primarily, but I have some drums, a tambourine, and a digital piano.

What's awesome about them is that they make music, and that I know how to use them to make music.

I'm not great. I'm adequate. But, I play them. And that's what it is to me: playing. I do it because it's fun.

It's the fun that's the most awesome.

I'm sure my parents would tell you that much of my practicing while I was in high school was little more than "experimental noise!" 

I played the Trumpet for 29 years. It's a great instrument when you want to jam out with a band when playing Jazz. Also, it was fun doing SKA back when I was part of a little SKA band in college.

French Horn for 15 years. It was a great alternative during the Spring in high school and college. You didn't not have to push as much force through it as you did with the trumpet. And the music that comes from a french horn can out the most strung out person in a trance.

Play violin currently for the last 15 years. Easy to learn and easy to play once you get your fingers accustomed to the frets and notes. Its one of those beautiful instruments where you can sit back and play from your heart. As long as you keep it in key, you can play pretty much anything and it will sound hauntingly beautiful. Spent 1000 dollars on a used handmade violin and it's one of the best investments I had ever made. Probably more so than Transgender Therapy and HRT put together. That violin has helped me through many dark nights of my soul.

I play a little banjo... or, rather, I dabble in some banjo. To a lesser extent, I also dabble with guitar.

I'm a DJ

Currently, I'm learning to play the mandolin. I play(ed) the clarinet and saxophone too - mostly from middle and high school years though.

'Played' violin, terrible. Played guitar, awful, played the fool, moderately successful.

One of my regrets is being non-musical.

Cindy

I have been playing some sort of guitar off and on, since I was a teenager.  I started on Bass and love paying it loud. I really like  the way it combines rythm and melody, and you can really get into a groove.  I have also started to look at Classical Cello pieces for sight reading practice. Bach's Cello Suite #1 is a good start.

I have also been playing Lap Steel for a while, both acoustic resonator and electric.  Great Bluesy feel to it, and very easy to work out stuff by ear.  If you use the right tunings you can play Minor Chords as well as the obvious Majors, so it is not as restricted as it might seem at first playing.

I have also picked up an absolute bargain Yamaha 12-string and being a fan of 60's Folk Rock enjoy the "jangly" edge you don't get with a 6 string. Old fan of The Byrds fom way back.

Karen.

i learned how to play guitar when i was little but my small mind was too impatient to learn all the cords, lol i just wanted to rock out, not know the fundamentals
so now i play drums, drumset, percussion, drumline stuff, pretty much everything
and i took piano lessons but every teacher i had was terrible so i gave up after my 6th teacher 

I play (or have played) accordion, piano, bassoon, oboe, flute, and cello.  But the only instrument that I play well (and regularly) is recorder.  I like baroque music.

Julie

I play acoustic guitar.
Over the years I've gotten better at playing, singing and having a conversation at the same time.
It's the "out of mind" part that I enjoy.

Quote from: justmeinoz on November 07, 2011, 03:46:33 AM
... Yamaha 12-string and being a fan of 60's Folk Rock ...

Yup, that's a great combo.
I'd like to own a 12 string but I'm too monogamous and my Taylor 110e would get jealous.

 

Quote from: justmeinoz on November 07, 2011, 03:46:33 AM
I have also picked up an absolute bargain Yamaha 12-string and being a fan of 60's Folk Rock enjoy the "jangly" edge you don't get with a 6 string. Old fan of The Byrds fom way back.

Karen.

Old Yamaha guitars can be really wonderful. Bought a 1970 Yamaha Nippon Gakki classical off eBay for £30 a few years ago, great guitar and totally wasted on my ability.

I played the cello in junior high and high school.  Now I play the tenor recorder and bass recorder.  Or I have them in my closet anyway I don't really play them.

fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar, banjo, uke, dulcimer, percussion... my first instrument as a kid was piano.

Z

I briefly played trumpet when I was younger. Quit because they stopped letting me borrow one from the band room, and my parents certainly weren't going to buy something they considered so frivolous.

Now I'm considering learning to play my daughter's guitar. She's not using it.

Quote from: Felix on November 07, 2011, 11:25:58 AM
Now I'm considering learning to play my daughter's guitar.

Go for it!
Guitar is one of the most accessible instruments out there.
Getting to the point of having some fun with it is pretty easy.
Of course, getting to be a legend requires 10 hours of playing per day since you were 8.

I inherited my grandfather's guitar.  It needs new strings.  I can play that a little, I learned in my early teens.

I played the viola in my HS orchestra and took a semester of clarinet so I could learn about woodwinds.  I have my other grandfather's Höhner concertina.  I can find my way around that a bit but I rarely do.  I used to have a violin and a viola but I sold them back in the 1990's.  My main instrument is the piano/keyboards.

I always loved music and have some talent but was never comfortable enough in my ability to make something of it so I remain an amateur.