Main instrument

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moresound said:
Sure we are all here to learn about and share recording techniques yet 99.9999999999% of us are musicians so the question here is *What is your main instrument?*
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I'm not a musician at all, I play the Nagra VI. ;)

Actually, I find I listen differently from musicians - a musician tends to listen to the performance and misses other important things. I will hear things a musician misses, especially when it comes to mic. placement and annoying noises while recording.

I tend to prefer to work with a producer, who is a musician. He will hear the performance faults.
 

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miroslav said:
Kazoo ....
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I'm with you on this one - this is probably the only instrument I could play.

Though I can make nice noises come out of a Fujara.

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(That's not me in the picture, though).

The Fujara is a folk instrument from Slovakia with a wonderful sound.
 
Guitar player here but I'm an equil opportunity offender when it comes to other intruments.
 
Guitarist of about 17 years, but I'm picking up drums. Costs a lot of money to plat drums, tho. That really sucks.:(

...and that Fujara thing kinda looks like when you get your tongue stuck on a lamp post in winter
 
sax/guitar/bass/vocals ...... all about equally well.

I don't really have a main instrument ...... I started all of those within about a year of each other and was always in multiple bands playing them all. And I've never gone thru a period when I didn't play one or the other.

So though people have a tendency to think of me as a guitarists or bassist or sax guy depending on what they heard me on first, I don't consider myself as especially drawn to any of them more than the others.
 
theD1CKENS said:
...and that Fujara thing kinda looks like when you get your tongue stuck on a lamp post in winter
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Kind of makes me ask what sort of person goes around licking lamp posts in winter. :rolleyes:


Maybe the same sort of person who licks the yellow snow. :laughings:
 
I'm not much of a musician, but the Casio HT-6000 is my main synth/controller. The rest of the Casiotone orchestra is slaved to that. The FZ-1 actually has a better keyboard, but it needs cleaning to keep the keys from sticking.
 
The instrument I've played the longest, am most proficient on and have made the most money gigging on - is drum kit. However, I now play guitar more than anything else - so at this time, that is my "main instrument". I consider myself a better than average keyboard player and I'm decent on bass.

I am competent enough to learn specific parts on violin, banjo, harmonica, lap steel, pedal steel and accordian - and at any given time, I may play one of those more than any other instrument if I'm working on learning something.
 
Xdrummer said:
I am competent enough to learn specific parts on violin, banjo, harmonica, lap steel, pedal steel and accordian - and at any given time, I may play one of those more than any other instrument if I'm working on learning something.
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I once had a roommate like that. He could play any instrument the first time he picked it up.

One day my girlfriend and I were in the living room, and the roommate was in his room with a 4-track. We heard him play one instrument at a time. A little while later, he played back the mix, and our jaws dropped to the floor. :eek:
 
Guitar is my main one, and it will always be i think, but I really wouldn't mind learning a bit of drums.
I think it would help me a lot rhythmically.
I would just have to find an electric (practice) one under 100$.
Otherwise I played piano for 6 years, and I don't remember much, but I'm rearing to go there as well.
 
Bass is my main axe, though I sing, play guitar and play keyboards, too.
 
Used to be keyboards, now its guitar... but I would have to go with the producer/arranger camp - I do everything but drums - cause I suck at drums.

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My "main" instrument is bass guitar. I also play some guitar as well as dabble(d) in mando and harp as well.
 
My main instrument is a 12 string acoustic, and by far my favorite, not really, I love to play drums, though I suck real bad, I can't chew gum and walk at the same time. I like playing bass, but I'm not very good, it adds sooo much to a recording you have to have it. I like to play keys as well, but I really suck, so its just droning chords! But I started out on 6 string acoustic and graduated to electric. I dabbled in many other instruments as well, including violin, mandolin and the mighty skin flute.
 
I'm pretty confident about my guitar playing. I can do quite a bit behind the drums. I know my way around a keyboard, but I wouldn't call myself a pianist. I'm not so great at the sax, but I have one so I try to put it to use. I want to get a bass guitar soon. Those are all of the instruments that I own, but I wouldn't really consider any of them my "main" instrument.
 
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