What's your favourite instrument and why did you pick it?

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I was just wondering about what (or who) it was that inspired you to start playing the instrument you chose to play? Just being nosey of course...

I was quite old when I picked up the guitar (25). The people I was hanging out with at the time could play really well, and I loved how it could create every genre of music you wanted it to. Classical, folk, rock, reggae, blues. Since I've always loved a little bit of all styles of music, it just seemed a sensible instrument for me to learn. To be honest, that was possibly the most cohesive thought I've had in my entire life. :D
 
Clarinet was my first instrument (I blame jazz) but I play many other instruments now.
 
The guitar is certainly my favorite instrument. I just picked it up and played and have never stopped, and that's probably because I like it. :D


I also really like the sitar; unfortunately, that instrument demands that you be a master for it to sound beautiful. If you don't meet the demand, you churn out some very mediocre stuff.
 
Guitar is my favorite insturment, but I turned out to be mainly a drummer. Not that I don't llike drums, but as a kid, I would never pretend I was a drummer. I'd spend hours air-guitaring Jimi, Johny Winters, and Ritchie Blackmore. Even though my favorite group of all time is the original Alice Cooper band, I would never pretend I was Alice, it was always the guitars.

As important as drums, bass, etc...are in rock music, rock is guitar music.
 
My first instrument was drums, I took classes for awhile but since my parents wouldn't get me my own kit I had to give up on that dream. Thought I didn't stop I just couldn't practice constantly.
Second instrument was bass which I also took classes with but it didn't really feel right even though it was fun. Then I took on guitar and it was love that has lasted for 19 years :) Also I started piano later too and singing but guitar is still my one true love when it comes to instruments.

and why I ipcked up guitar? Because I thought that guitarists gets all the chicks :P
 
Clarinet was my first instrument (forced by parents). Hated it. As soon as they let me and I had $40 (birthday present from my grandfather at age 15) I bought a guitar!
 
Guitar for me through the love of Buddy Holly. Always had a guitar in the house as a kid but never seriously learned until I was 15 on my Dad's left handed guitar. I played it right handed, strung upside down. I got my first real guitar at 16.

I've since learned to play left handed as well as right handed, upside down and normal. I'm a bit odd!
 
moresound said:
Clarinet was my first instrument (I blame jazz) but I play many other instruments now.
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Awesome instrument. I played clarinet for 1 year, but got too fed up with the slow learners in the class. It wasn't a waste of time by any stretch of the imagination, it laid some very important foundations. I still love the sound of the clarinet, and wish I could play it better.
 
tranquillant said:
My first instrument was drums, I took classes for awhile but since my parents wouldn't get me my own kit I had to give up on that dream.
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LOL. I said I wanted to play bagpipes when i was 7 but my dad gave me the option. Play on the roof or don't play at all. recorder it was....

tranquillant said:
and why I ipcked up guitar? Because I thought that guitarists gets all the chicks :P
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It does, good choice. :D
 
I picked drums because when I was 10 I saw my brother's marching bang, and thought the drumline was really, really awesome. So I picked up drums because I wanted to be a drummer in marching band. Around the same time I started getting into rock music, and about a year later I finally got a drumset.

My first instrument was piano, my piano lessons were the most important music lessons I have ever taken, but my mom had me do them for about 7 years.
 
tranquillant said:
and why I ipcked up guitar? Because I thought that guitarists gets all the chicks :P
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You know, during the first 6 years I played, I thought that was a ridiculous claim. I thought it was ridiculous because, as a child, I saw everything in black and white. I've been finding that it REALLY does pick up chicks, especially if you're good. When I say "black and white," I thought the whole pick up chicks meant they instantly wanted to date me or take their pants off or something and, logically (or illogically, I suppose), I thought that was stupid. I have found, playing flamenco on my college campus, the girls just smile and listen and it's so easy to strike up a conversation with them. :guitar:
 
I was only about 8-9...and it was the guitar first, then I added piano shortly after that (my sister was taking piano lessons, so it was easy to add)...but I had no "Rock Guitar God" inspiration at the time (they were still using stuff like "Camptown Races" in their instruction program :rolleyes: :D)....and electric guitar had yet to break out into the lead instrument it eventualy became.
It was mostly the early Beatles the fueled my music interests....but then that quickly exploded as "Rock" became mainstream in modern music.

I kinda' stepped away from the piano a long time ago, after the last live band I was in, where I alternated between guitar and keys. After that I got into the studio/recording SOP, and while I still play keys on a lot of songs I record, my main instrument is the guitar...with keys used mostly for backing tracks, and also quite lot as a writting tool. I still sit at the piano to work arrangements as much as I use the guitar for writting.
 
Guitar - like there aren't enough of guitarists in the world - when I was about 16, all my mates were playing, so I thought I'd better catch up... It seemed to me that, although I was pretty good at most things, I was never the best at anything in the group of kids I hung around with. Guitar changed that.

As it turned out they all stopped playing, and they all got fat and bald and married and hagridden by wives who could flay the flesh from your bones with their voice, and saddled with ungrateful children, and poor and suburban and generally lived blighted lives, whereas I, the true guitar god of the group, remained strong and thin and edgy and rich and kept my hair, not to mention getting more attractive with each passing year.

And I owe it all to guitar playing... :laughings:

OK - only some of that was true... :eek:

On the "get more chicks" thing, I was severely disappointed when, at the first big gig of the first decent group I was in - a school dance somewhere with hundreds and hundreds of nubile young things wearing as little as they could get away with - at the place in the song where I did my awesome widdly widdly lead break, I looked down at the pliant crowd worshipping my every finger move to discover, in absolute horror, that they were all blokes.

Meanwhile, all the pretty young things were up in front of the lead singer, making goo goo eyes at him whilst he was DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I was apalled and almost gave the instrument up, but then I remembered that I was never the best at anything else, and so I stuck with it... and here I am today, boring you rigid with my reminiscences... it's a high price to pay, I know, but you'll have to suffer... :eek::D
 
always wanted a piano as far back as i can remember,we couldn't afford one then at around 14 i saw my cousin play bass then wanted one of those,bout a year later guitar chose me ... id be happy about it if i wasn't so shit :P
 
I love playing hand drums, Dejembe, Cajon, Kpanlogo are the ones that I have. I had a fair booth at a Renaissance fair and they played directly across from e for 3 years then I just started going over and playing with them. I find it relaxing and brain quieting.
 
AaronCissell said:
I love playing hand drums, Dejembe, Cajon, Kpanlogo are the ones that I have. I had a fair booth at a Renaissance fair and they played directly across from e for 3 years then I just started going over and playing with them. I find it relaxing and brain quieting.
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Geez I don't even know what all of those are, sounds well interesting. :)
 
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