Your toys

[xabeba]

A global version of the "your flute" or "your fiddle" threads...

Most of the people in these boards consacrate significant musical time to one Irish traditional instrument, be it a truly traditional one or a newly incorporated one. Most Irish trad players don't only have more than one specimen of their main instrument, but they also have secondary traditional instruments that they can play with more or less success Someone who's also versed in educated music will probably have extra instruments on top of that as well.

So, list your toys or share information about them here!

[xabeba]

Here are mine. I expect this list to be quite modest when compared to most users'

Instruments I can play:
-A blackwood key-less Copley flute in D
-A couple of tin whistles (mainly used as fingering practice for the flute, I don't take them to sessions)
-One La Patrie classical guitar
-1/2 fiddle (as in, I have a fiddle, but it needs a few fixes before it's playable; also, no bow!)

Instruments I can play *with*:
-A wooden recorder in C
-A medieval oboe
-A highland pipe practice chanter
-A harmonica
-Wooden spoons (they never leave my house, don't worry!)

[Nanocircus]

Yamaha 471 Western Concert Flute
Casey Burns Folk Flute in Boxwood
Terry McGee Keyless Prattens Perfected in Blackwood currently being made for me. I cant wait!

[Ketil]

M&E 6 keyed ebonite flute
Goldie Big O Low D whistle
Chieftain V3 Low D whistle
Kerry Pro Low F whistle

A custom buildt Clinesmith resonator guitar in rosewood and spruce that I absolute love and wont part with for anything!
A takamine laminate 6 string guitar

[Jäger]

Instruments for playing irish music:
Half set concert pitch pipes by Mike Hulme with a an extra C chanter by Richard Patkos.
Delrin D keyless flute by Dave Copley.
Bouzouki by David Freshwater.
D whistle by Colin Goldie
A bunch of cheap whistles in different keys, Clarkes, Dixons etc.
A cheap, no name bodhrán that hangs on the wall.
Cheap Samick tenor banjo.
A 50 year old mandolin, hardly playable, with the very fitting name "Klub".

Instruments for playing other stuff:
Yamaha C-40 classical guitar.
Washburn D-11/BR steel string acoustic.
Nyckelharpa by Bosse Nilsson.
Ibanez RG7620 7-string electric guitar.
Ibanez AK95DVS semi acoustic jazz guitar.
A monster drum kit with too much sh*te for me to bother listing.

[German Whistler]

See this link for My Instruments

I have Whistles and Guitars

Whistles:
1 Waltons Brass D
1 Waltons Guinness Black Alluminium D (cant findt it after mooving)
1 Clarke Meg Black D
2 Parks Walkabout C&D Set (2 whistles share one head)
1 Chinese Gniesel* German Whistler tweaked**
1 Clarke Original unpainted D - the Victorian Set with paper of victorian tunes
1 Clarke Original Black with the Diamonds C
1 Clarke Sweettone natural D
1 Clarke Meg Black C

Guitars:
1 Ibanez 12 String Guitar
1 Fender Squier Affinity Stratocaster - E Guitar
Accessory:
1 Fender Amp - Fender Frontman FM10G

i get new things every month so this list grows

[An Draighean]

Instruments I play for ITM:
3/4 set of flat pitch (C natural) uilleann pipes by Martin Preshaw, with an extra concert pitch chanter also by Martin Preshaw.
Double handful of 37-year-old Generation, Hohner, and Clarke whistles in various keys.

Instruments suitable for ITM that I own but don't play:
Camac Aziliz 34-string lever harp (wife plays it).
36-year-old home-made bodhran by some guy in County Antrim.

Instruments I play for other stuff:
decent 5-string banjo
cheap mandolin
case full of diatonic harmonicas in various keys, plus one chromatic.
Sage acoustic 6-string guitar
Epiphone Sheraton semi-hollow-body electric guitar
Gretsch 6120 semi-hollow-body electric guitar
Rickenbacker Model B6 (post-war) Bakelite lap steel guitar
piano

[MeMyselfandI]

Instruments I play for ITM:
Fiddle
Copley Keyless Delrin in D
A bunch of home-made PVC flutes
Feadog D whistle
A couple home-made whistles
A pizza box (excuse for a bodhran )
Cheap no-name eBay flute (piece of sh!te, although not pakistani. I used it for flute-tweaking practice )

Instruments I play other stuff with:
Violin (same as fiddle...)
Viola
Piano
A few soprano recorders
Alto recorder

And the rest that I might play around with on occasion:
"Midget" accordion (1 octave, in C. Truly is a toy, BTW)
Native American Flute, "A" Diatonic Minor
Guitar

[brad maloney]

Sometimes I want another instrument then I think where am I going to put it and when will I be spread so thin as to have it make my music suffer. So far playing other instruments has been an "eye-opener" and had a symbiotic, helpful outcome on my playing of other instruments. I'll name them in chronological order.

1. Trumpet (rarely played, school instrument)
2. 3 guitars, 2 (EKO & a Gibson) in need of repair and my playing guitar which is a Breedlove.
3. 3 fiddles, one on a temp/permanent loan, a five string in temp/permanent need of strings and my main fiddle.
4. A Venetian mandolin which I love, even if gibson bluegrass mandolin dudes turn up their noses at.
5. 2 Flutes, a Skip Healy and a middle of the road Armstrong.
6. Some tinwhistles; clarkes and generations, although I've been playing whistle since I was young, my kids had their way with them as they were growing up. I lost my first and a few cherished sentimental ones, but I feel the music is more dependent on the whistler not the whistle. Heresy, I know.
7. Puerto Rican Cuatro, a five coursed, steel string instrument with a scale length about 3/4 of a guitar. I tune it DADAE these days. good for tunes and backing, it's smaller boy keeps it from overpowering.
8. A nice Mountain Dulcimer that was gifted to me, it's an interesting instrument that too often gets a bad rap.
9. misc woodwinds, quena, recorders, fifes etc and an old Vega banjo; which I can play pretty well, but being a gentleman, I choose to leave it in it's case. Oh and a bodhran (also gifted) which I leave alone too, not a fan of the thumpety thump.

I think that's about it.

[cboody]

You really don't want to know. It would expose how much I've spent! But here's a list of types of instruments

Trumpets
hammered dulcimers
harps
concertinas
B/C button box
Theremin (!)
reed pump organ
Hammond Chord organ
Autoharps
Bowed Psalteries
Guitar
recorders
whistles these I'll list:
Hi D Copeland brass
Hi D Busman delrin
Mid G Copeland (probably the nicest sounding whistle I own)
Mid A Copeland
Mid A Burke (for sale if anyone is interested)
Lo D Copeland
Lo D MK
Lo D Onyx
D/C Parks travelers
Bb Freeman tweaked Generation
D Freeman Blackbird
D Freeman tweaked brass Gen.
D Sweetone
A handful of others.

Even this list frightens me

[xabeba]

A theremin? Lol Do you actually play it? If so, what's your repertoire?

[ghicken]

Before this year I knew nothing about Irish music. But I got my first guitar 43 years ago, so I've amassed an assortment of musical instruments since then. For the record:

I have twelve tin whistles (only two are made out of tin.)
One Irish flute (WD Sweet SHANNON) and one home-made PVC "Irish" flute.
One Boehm flute.
Two plectrum banjos
Six acoustic guitars
Three electric guitars
One electronic keyboard
Two ukuleles (plus one borrowed uke)
One ocarina
One tambourine

Pictures to come...

My background is rock and traditional jazz. In the near future I want a trichordo bouzouki and a tenor banjo.

[cboody]

A theremin? Lol Do you actually play it? If so, what's your repertoire?

Theremin's new last week. A birthday gift from my wife who plans to stay away while I learn...

[Tor]

Acoustic guitars (small, large, steel, nylon, 12-string, 6-string, etc etc), electric guitars, various ukuleles in different sizes&shapes, a bunch of whistles, lots of blues harmonicas, a recorder (which suffered badly from an attempted tweak to shift it into tune - I should buy a new one), a keyboard (which is the one I can't play much for real). Currently researching: Mandolin. Nearly bought an ocarina in Japan but I'm not sure what keys are good.. they certainly didn't have any in D
There may be some more instruments I can't recall at the moment.

[benhall.1]

A theremin? Lol Do you actually play it? If so, what's your repertoire?

Theremin's new last week. A birthday gift from my wife who plans to stay away while I learn...

Jealous.