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Age Question....
Hello Chiffboard!
I'm a relatively new convert to the world of the tinwhistle and just wanted to offer my greetings! I'm nearly nineteen years old and just started playing on a Walton brass D that my parents bought me as a novelty years ago. As I'm sure is the case with most of you...I'm hooked!
My question is more out of curiosity than anything. I'm just wondering what age you were when you started playing your (current?) favorite instrument. My first instrument was the piano at a young age, but I feel that I appreciate the tinwhistle so much more as I'm starting a little later. Thoughts?
I'm a relatively new convert to the world of the tinwhistle and just wanted to offer my greetings! I'm nearly nineteen years old and just started playing on a Walton brass D that my parents bought me as a novelty years ago. As I'm sure is the case with most of you...I'm hooked!
My question is more out of curiosity than anything. I'm just wondering what age you were when you started playing your (current?) favorite instrument. My first instrument was the piano at a young age, but I feel that I appreciate the tinwhistle so much more as I'm starting a little later. Thoughts?
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Piano--age 7. Played for 2 years. Relearned as adult. Fun, but I stink.
Viola--age 9. Played for 5 years. Now I play fiddle instead. Favorite, but I stink.
Guitar--strummed chords in high school. Never surpassed stinkage.
Whistle--got a Gen D at age 18. messed around with it. Resumed in recent years. Fun, but...guess what? Yep.
Viola--age 9. Played for 5 years. Now I play fiddle instead. Favorite, but I stink.
Guitar--strummed chords in high school. Never surpassed stinkage.
Whistle--got a Gen D at age 18. messed around with it. Resumed in recent years. Fun, but...guess what? Yep.
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This is uncanny, your list begins nearly the same as mine!emmline wrote:Piano--age 7. Played for 2 years. Relearned as adult. Fun, but I stink.
Viola--age 9. Played for 5 years. Now I play fiddle instead. Favorite, but I stink.
Guitar--strummed chords in high school. Never surpassed stinkage.
Whistle--got a Gen D at age 18. messed around with it. Resumed in recent years. Fun, but...guess what? Yep.
Piano- 5 yo. Kept at it
viola- 6 yo. Kept at it
Cello-6 yo. " " "
Guitar- 7 yo. " " "
Since I have added loads of other instruments, the last of which are my favorite... the Uilleann Pipes.
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Boehm flute: age 10 through 18
Guitar: high school (Joan Baez wannabe), resumed in my 50's, though it's not my main instrument.
Recorders: quite seriously throughout my 20's.
Mt. Dulcimer: my return to music in 2001, at the age of 48, have a growing collection.
Irish flute: part of the return c. age 50, started with a Tipple, then moved on to a Sweet and now have my Dave Williams 8-key Rudall --- and three Tipples.
Guitar: high school (Joan Baez wannabe), resumed in my 50's, though it's not my main instrument.
Recorders: quite seriously throughout my 20's.
Mt. Dulcimer: my return to music in 2001, at the age of 48, have a growing collection.
Irish flute: part of the return c. age 50, started with a Tipple, then moved on to a Sweet and now have my Dave Williams 8-key Rudall --- and three Tipples.
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"Self-taught" piano - age 6 or 7 (my aunt bought me "Teaching Little Fingers How To Play" and I taught it to myself. I still play a mean "From A Wigwam" but never progressed much beyond that).
Saxophone - age 10. Played through high school. Really liked it, was mediocre at it, and I keep meaning to pull it out of the closet and play it again, but I'm too cheap to buy the mouthpiece and reeds it needs.
Whistle - about age 20 or so, don't remember precisely. My favorite, and what I'm most proficient at.
I also started teaching myself guitar in my mid-twenties, but didn't get beyond a couple of cords when I lent my guitar to a friend for a little bit - 10+ years later I am now dating that friend, and my guitar is still sitting in his living room (where he doesn't play it either).
Saxophone - age 10. Played through high school. Really liked it, was mediocre at it, and I keep meaning to pull it out of the closet and play it again, but I'm too cheap to buy the mouthpiece and reeds it needs.
Whistle - about age 20 or so, don't remember precisely. My favorite, and what I'm most proficient at.
I also started teaching myself guitar in my mid-twenties, but didn't get beyond a couple of cords when I lent my guitar to a friend for a little bit - 10+ years later I am now dating that friend, and my guitar is still sitting in his living room (where he doesn't play it either).
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Saxophone - age 9 (5th grade, fall)
Guitar - age 14 (9th grade, February (the day I got my braces))
Various bamboo folk flutes - mid-late twenties
American Bb Fife - 33
Irish Flute - 36 (Though none of my flutes are really Irish )
I'm 38 now. My next instrument will be ....
Guitar - age 14 (9th grade, February (the day I got my braces))
Various bamboo folk flutes - mid-late twenties
American Bb Fife - 33
Irish Flute - 36 (Though none of my flutes are really Irish )
I'm 38 now. My next instrument will be ....
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Lap dulcimer around 15, kept at it for 15 years or so, still break it out now and then
whistle late 30's
Irish flute, 43
Baroque flute, 45
whistle late 30's
Irish flute, 43
Baroque flute, 45
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