Is the pennywhistle your only instrument?

LimuHead · Post by **LimuHead** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:10 pm

It appears that most whistlers play other musical instruments. I'm curious. What other instruments do you play?

Since this is my poll, I'll go first. I mainly play guitar on stage with my band, but manage to work pennywhistle, flute, double ocarina, melodica, (and soon Xaphoon), into our sets. (We're a Hawaiian band, that plays whatever style takes our fancy....)

At home I mainly play the English Concertina. I only touch my guitars and ukes at home when I'm teaching. I own a whole bunch of other musical instruments: steel drum, steel guitar, harp, autoharp, Anglo concertina, accordion, keyboard, bodhran (sp?), zither and will occassionaly go off on "instrumental binges".

My collapsible Laughing Whistle goes with me everywhere I go.

Now it's your turn.......

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:18 pm

Here's my list:

Concert Flute
Baroque recorders
Hammer dulcimer
Whistle
Irish flute
Uilleann pipes
Tenor banjo
Irish Bouzouki
Mandolin
DADGAD guitar
Piano/keyboards

Too many instruments to stay proficient on, but it keeps me busy...

kevin m. · Post by **kevin m.** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:22 pm

I also play flute (a Dixon polymer),but also have a very cheap Chinese Boehm flute( which I never touch)and an Alto Sax (Conn 'Lady' underslung,c.1935)which I haven't played for quite some time,but would never part with. I've recently ordered a practice set of Uilleann pipes from Davy Stephenson.

chattiekathy · Post by **chattiekathy** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:28 pm

Hammered Dulcimer
Whistle
Guitar

Ha Ha, I also have a Jaw harp that I can get a "Boing" out of,

but I wouldn't call it playing. There are a few others that I want to try like the autoharp and the mountain dulcimer. Practice, Practice, Practice...

Kathy

Fun4Bambi · Post by **Fun4Bambi** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:28 pm

Flutes & Percussion: Boehm flute, recorders (garklein through tenor), tabor pipe, assorted fifes, ocarinas, hand percussion - right now I have a doumbek, cowbell, assorted shakers...Oh! and I just got a quena! I also have a clarinet staring at me at the moment, and in the past I've messed with trubador harp, euphnium, and piano.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:40 pm

Ummm... let's see.....

Looking around my music room, I see eight guitars, calrinet, a gig-bag of pennywhistles, a BOX of pennywhistles, Wurlitzer 200A electric piano, Ace Tone transistor organ, autoharp, Bodhran, mandolin,a Remo 16" hand drum, glockenspiel (SP?) Fender bass guitar, a home-brew flute and....

Hey! How'd these two recorders get in here?

Gary

MkN · Post by **MkN** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:41 pm

I play:
Boehm Flute
Wooden Flute
Piccolo
Piano
Clarinet

although I am not to good at the piano or clarinet

MkN · Post by **MkN** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:46 pm

I play:
Boehm Flute
Wooden Flute
Piccolo
Piano
Clarinet

although I am not to good at the piano or clarinet

vaporlock · Post by **vaporlock** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:52 pm

Penny Whistle
Small pipes
Sax
Cello (a loooooooong time ago)
Boehm Flute - Learning slowly

Deamiter · Post by **Deamiter** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:56 pm

I got a list... don't play brass or strings...

Piano
Organ
Clarinet
Eb Clarinet (yes it's a different instrument)
Assorted Saxophones
Oboe
Marimba (only percussion I actually practice on)
assorted percussion

... right and whiste.

Only ones I get paid for are keyboards and reeds though. Nobody needs marimba players.

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:56 pm

I picked "yes" because it's my only instrument *now* though I used to play the clarinet in middle school. Haven't touched one in half a decade though.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:58 pm

Emilie · Post by **Emilie** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:06 pm

I've played the piano since I was 5.. I can play the recorder too!

Emilie

Ailin · Post by **Ailin** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:08 pm

Uilleann pipes!

Blackbeer · Post by **Blackbeer** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:08 pm

Well I`m almost imbarised that my list only contains a guitar and a flute.
Although I can truethfully say I was once a guitarist I cannot say I am a flutist or floutest er a flute player. I was informed this very day that my Dixon rosewood flute is in the mail.

and I am shaking with antisipation.
I haven`t played my guitar in quite a while though and the whistle and flute have occupied all my musical time of late. Thanks to you all. Oh ya I have played the Jews harp since I was a kid and the spoons. Both of which my mother tought to me. She tried to teach me how to play the harmonica and piano but I was a very poor student. I kick myself daily for not taking advantage of that oppertunity now that she is gone. She had a great style of playing and now it is lost.

Tom

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