Is the pennywhistle your only instrument?

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:10 pm

My short list consists of clarinet, bass clarinet, and my vocal cords.

I have a Hall flute and a bodhran, but I can't really say that I actually play them!

Andrea

MacEachain · Post by **MacEachain** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:32 pm

Well I own the following, whether I play them or not is a matter of opinion

Whistle/Low whistle
Wooden flute
Guitar
Mouth Organ

( better make that Harmonica)
Bodhran
Uillean Pipes (Practice set)
Melodica

Cheers, Mac

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:38 pm

Here's a clip.

I am playing mouth organ, bouzouki, and whistle.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:41 pm

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:45 pm

I also play piano
and I am learning :
Uilleann Pipes
Banjo
DADGAD guitar
flute

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:46 pm

Also (in order of learning) violin, clarinet, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo.

But.... I don't have a clarinet anymore, and haven't played for 20 years, but I'm sure the 3 years I spent on one in my teens helped a lot on starting the whistle.

I put tenor banjo, though I only play for myself for a bit of fun - my dad had a 50 year old Windsor, so I got it restored. I'm taking a 5 string windsor along to Hobgoblin tomorrow for the same treatment, so maybe I'll be able to try some scruggs style picking soon!

I DO have a violin, but it's a real cheapie just so I can scrape away every now & then to remind me how uncomfortable I was with it as a pre-teen.

One day, maybe, wooden flute, if I can scrape up the courage and the cash...

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:08 pm

Hammered dulcimer
Recorder
Piano
KAZOO
Guitar

Jo C · Post by **Jo C** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:22 pm

Play well:
Violin / Fiddle
Viola
Whistle

Play reasonaby:
Piano
Flute (metal)

Attempt to play:
Uilleann pipes
Guitar (not very often)

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:23 pm

Just the whistle.

Play? Debatable, but making progress and having lots of fun.

bassnwhistle · Post by **bassnwhistle** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:27 pm

I also regularly play:
low whistles (Dixon and Goldie/Overton)
fretted and fretless electric basses
acoustic bass
congas, timbales and myriad other bangy things
Malachy bodhrans
bones

I occasionally play (not well):
mandolin
ukelele

I own (but cannot play):
guitar (Gibson 335 copy)
Highland bagpipes (suitable-for-burning: won them as a door prize)

Ian

Bretton · Post by **Bretton** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:31 pm

I played baritone saxophone for 7 years while in school: concert band (boring), marching band (heavy), and jazz band (my favorite). I no longer own a sax and haven't played one since I discovered whistles (about 5 years ago).

I also currently play the D melodeon which is starting to get more practice time than the whistle...I haven't decided if that's a good or bad thing.

-brett

Ghoeti · Post by **Ghoeti** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:33 pm

I play the Irish flute soon (getting one in 2 weeks).
And else I just play the Bodhrán.

ScottStewart · Post by **ScottStewart** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:34 pm

My list:

Guitar (fingerstyle, classical)
Bass guitar
Acoustic bass (upright bass)
Mandolin
Clarinet (sop., alto, contralto)
Sax (alto, tenor)
Keyless flute
Harmonica
R******r
Organ (just enough to get by)

and...

The fool (more often than not).

janice · Post by **janice** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:54 pm

Hey Bretton!
I wasn't going to post to this thread, but as another ex-Bari player, I just had to reply......I've still got mine(a Selmer with a low A key-I should sell it as I don't play anymore...but the sentimental attachment!!) and also marched, did concert band, but *especially* loved playing in the jazz band(fun for 2 reasons-1. was the only girl in the jazz band and 2. got to play louder than anyone else..come to think of it, those are probably the same two initial reasons that I took up the Uileann pipes).

Anyway-ain't whistle great after ALL those years of lugging (which really weren't fun considering that I was tall, skinny and a weakling) and neck pain?

OK, and I also play Irish and legit flute, clarinet and conduct(which I got a master's in and am doing as a minor in my doctoral Mus Ed program)

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:56 pm

Flutes: Boehm-system, Irish keyed and unkeyed, traverso, and fife

Recorders: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor

Clarinet (very little)

Guitar (very little)

Harmonica (very little)

Keyboard (very insanely little)

And of course, many many whistles.

--James

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