How many years have you been playing?

StewySmoot · Post by **StewySmoot** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:15 pm

As I am about to hit the 2-year mark in whistle-playing (June 30), I am curious...

antstastegood · Post by **antstastegood** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:17 pm

about .038 of a year.

Cori · Post by **Cori** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:36 pm

A few days longer than ants.

Wish I'd started sooner though ... mmm.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:37 pm

Two years in August.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:59 pm

I played Amazing Grace on Sept. 11th after the towers fell.

I've played almost everyday since.

I start with Star Spangled Banner and end with Amazing Grace and Over the Rainbow each time I practice.

Traditional Irish music is sorta new for me...since October last year. It's pretty much everything in between.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 11:19 pm

With me, it kinda depends on how you look at it. I started playing in 1975, played almost every day until 1979, when I started college and didn't have time for anything but my books. Took it up again in 1982 or so, and have had spurts of lots of playing activity followed by periods of relative inactivity ever since.

Redwolf

skh · Post by **skh** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:47 am

Depends. Bought my first whistle 13 (yikes!) years ago, but didn't understand the instrument until few months ago, so I voted <1 year. And all the time spent on recorders sure doesn't count for this poll.

Sonja

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:56 am

I took up whistle eight years ago, but I'm still not any good at it. Yet still, I'm posting clips. http://www.geocities.com/aaronwalden/yesiknow.htm I took up the other instrument on the clip, around the same time. Any guesses what instrument it is?

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 5:47 am

I'm with you on that, Sonja...12 years of recorder playing doesn't count. I've been playing whistle for three years now, though I've had 'em for many more.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 6:20 am

Almost 25 years on flute, almost 5 on whistle.

I'm not sure if this is a

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picardy third · Post by **picardy third** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 6:25 am

Clarinet-5 years
Classical/Fingerstyle/Rock/Jazz Guitar-13 years
Whistle-3 months

skh · Post by **skh** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 6:34 am

picardy third wrote:Clarinet-5 years
Classical/Fingerstyle/Rock/Jazz Guitar-13 years
Whistle-3 months

Oh, other instruments count as well? Harp, 9 calendar and 6 playing years.

points at avatar

Sonja

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 6:38 am

Good grief! I've just been working it out and it must be about 17 or 18 years. No wonder I can't break all my bad habits.

fluter_d · Post by **fluter_d** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 7:22 am

Whistle for 13 years, trad flute for 11.

picardy third · Post by **picardy third** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 7:23 am

Well, on the poll I counted myself as less than 1 year since that is how long I've played whistle. The great thing about music, as I am sure you other muli-instrumentalists know, is that once you know one instrument fairly proficiently, picking up another is a lot of the time not so difficult (at least not as difficult as it would be for a complete beginner). The principals of music don't change. Imagine that!

picardy

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