I always thought you were the same age as me. I feel like we have similar aged-souls, or something. That's interesting to know.anniemcu wrote:I am now 53 3/4.
Age Question....
My musical education started at age 5 when my mother gave in and started buying me dance lessons (tap, ballet, jazz, folk).
I studied various musical instruments over the years. I have quite an investment in Early Winds.
I'm still dancing, but a while back at age 52 I started to put it on a fiddle.
A few months ago I took up clawhammer banjo with my husband. He thinks I've progressed with it as fast as I have because of all the fiddle experience.
I'm a better dancer than he is too.
I studied various musical instruments over the years. I have quite an investment in Early Winds.
I'm still dancing, but a while back at age 52 I started to put it on a fiddle.
A few months ago I took up clawhammer banjo with my husband. He thinks I've progressed with it as fast as I have because of all the fiddle experience.
I'm a better dancer than he is too.
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Perhaps our souls have known each other longer than our cyber-selves have... or it could just be that I've never fully grown up.Cranberry wrote:I always thought you were the same age as me. I feel like we have similar aged-souls, or something. That's interesting to know.anniemcu wrote:I am now 53 3/4.
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Started the silver flute at age 11 or thereabouts.
Bought my first tinwhistle (which I still have) at 15. Didn't know any Irish tunes to play on it, though; it would be years later that I first encountered Irish traditional music.
Was about eighteen when I bought my recorders. Was nineteen when I bought my Baroque flute.
--- years pass, when I touched no instrument at all ---
Was 32 when I obtained my old German 8-key and started looking around online for music to play on it, and happened across some Irish trad tunes. Deep inside me something that had been deep asleep for so long yawned, and stretched, and began to awake again.
Was maybe 33 or 34 when Michael Cronnolly heard my recordings on my first pitiful version of my website, took pity on me, and sent me a flute...the generosity of which still just absolutely blows me away.
Was in my late 30's when my wife ordered me a flute from Hammy Hamilton.
Was 40 when I got my Overton, which is to whistles as my Hamilton is to flutes.
--James
Bought my first tinwhistle (which I still have) at 15. Didn't know any Irish tunes to play on it, though; it would be years later that I first encountered Irish traditional music.
Was about eighteen when I bought my recorders. Was nineteen when I bought my Baroque flute.
--- years pass, when I touched no instrument at all ---
Was 32 when I obtained my old German 8-key and started looking around online for music to play on it, and happened across some Irish trad tunes. Deep inside me something that had been deep asleep for so long yawned, and stretched, and began to awake again.
Was maybe 33 or 34 when Michael Cronnolly heard my recordings on my first pitiful version of my website, took pity on me, and sent me a flute...the generosity of which still just absolutely blows me away.
Was in my late 30's when my wife ordered me a flute from Hammy Hamilton.
Was 40 when I got my Overton, which is to whistles as my Hamilton is to flutes.
--James
http://www.flutesite.com
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Mukade's musical heritage.
I have always had music around at home.
My father has played guitar for 50 years.
My maternal grandmother was Welsh and sang in the choirs.
My paternal grandfather's instrument was the church organ on which he played a mean version of the Coolin.
My neighbour was a traditional musical instrument player. He still makes Northumbrian pipes, harps and hurdy gurdies.
I have fond memories of sitting the garden in the evening with my father sipping homebrewed ale and watching bats flutter around as we listened to the pipe music float out of the neighbour's workshop.
My own musical journey started at 11 with the clarinet.
I got into Irish music at about 16 and picked up the whistle at 19.
The flute soon followed.
I got my first pipe chanter at 22.
I studied the Shakuhachi for three years from 30 years old.
I can't play any of them well
Mukade
I have always had music around at home.
My father has played guitar for 50 years.
My maternal grandmother was Welsh and sang in the choirs.
My paternal grandfather's instrument was the church organ on which he played a mean version of the Coolin.
My neighbour was a traditional musical instrument player. He still makes Northumbrian pipes, harps and hurdy gurdies.
I have fond memories of sitting the garden in the evening with my father sipping homebrewed ale and watching bats flutter around as we listened to the pipe music float out of the neighbour's workshop.
My own musical journey started at 11 with the clarinet.
I got into Irish music at about 16 and picked up the whistle at 19.
The flute soon followed.
I got my first pipe chanter at 22.
I studied the Shakuhachi for three years from 30 years old.
I can't play any of them well
Mukade
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Started guitar at 11, tin whistle at about 40, mandolin at about 45.
Mando and whistle are my favourites. I am now 47.
Mando and whistle are my favourites. I am now 47.
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
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Drums at 12.
Re****der at 13
Harmonica at 15
Flute at 18
Mandolin 32 or so. Since aborted.
Hammered dulcimer/autoharp at 41.
Tin whistle 42 or so
Mountain dulcimer 45.
Ukelele 45. (just part time goofing off)
Of these I play the flute and harmonica quite well thanks.
Autoharp not as well but fairly well.
Hammered dulcimer less skillful
Mountain dulcimer even less skillful which is why I'm going to Kentucky Music Week this year!!!!
Re****der at 13
Harmonica at 15
Flute at 18
Mandolin 32 or so. Since aborted.
Hammered dulcimer/autoharp at 41.
Tin whistle 42 or so
Mountain dulcimer 45.
Ukelele 45. (just part time goofing off)
Of these I play the flute and harmonica quite well thanks.
Autoharp not as well but fairly well.
Hammered dulcimer less skillful
Mountain dulcimer even less skillful which is why I'm going to Kentucky Music Week this year!!!!
I'm no longer trying a new posting paradigm
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I started guitar lessons when I was 9 or 10. I started on a steel-string Harmony arch top guitar and progressed to a Gibson electric guitar. My teacher for 3-4 years was an accordion teacher who couldn't play the guitar. I progressed until I was able to play the electric guitar in a band for my high school prom. In college I became interested in classical music, so I taught myself how to play the classical guitar, using my fingers to pick the nylon strings rather than a pick, which I had always used. In Tucson, as one of the founding members of the Tucson Classical Guitar Society, I performed in several concerts given by members of the society.
In college I also took a course in beginning piano, but that was in the day when low-cost electronic keyboards were not available. To my regret, my piano playing was interrupted by my not having a piano to continue my studies. I now have a beautiful Yamaha keyborad, but I don't have the skills to do with it what I would like to.
Also, in my early twenties I became interested in the recorder. I played mostly soprano and alto recorders, but for awhile I did own a tenor recorder, which, if I remember correctly, was a big reach for my small fingers.
In my forties I started experimenting with other instruments. I tried the banjo and the fiddle. I became good enough on the fiddle that I could play second fiddle in a contra dance band in Tucson. I also have 16" viola and a small cello that I have tuned an octave below the violin.
Then I discovered the mandolin. It is tuned and fingers like the violin, but there is one big difference in that the mandolin has frets. At this time my fiddle playing is not something that I would impose upon others, but my mandolin playing is not bad.
For the past twenty years or so I have also been interested in flutes and whistles. About twelve years ago I started making simple-system flutes from pvc pipe. Currently, I have made over one thousand flutes, and my flutes are being played in many countries around the world.
So at 63, I am still making flutes every day, but I also have time to pick up the many different instruments that fill my living space. I have a African djembe drum beside my computer table. I have Tibetan singing bowls, kalimbas or African thumb harps, a number of harmonicas, Middle Eastern frame drums, digeridoos, shakahachis, quenas, and many other flutes. No matter what my mood is, I have an instrument to try to express my feelings at the moment.
In college I also took a course in beginning piano, but that was in the day when low-cost electronic keyboards were not available. To my regret, my piano playing was interrupted by my not having a piano to continue my studies. I now have a beautiful Yamaha keyborad, but I don't have the skills to do with it what I would like to.
Also, in my early twenties I became interested in the recorder. I played mostly soprano and alto recorders, but for awhile I did own a tenor recorder, which, if I remember correctly, was a big reach for my small fingers.
In my forties I started experimenting with other instruments. I tried the banjo and the fiddle. I became good enough on the fiddle that I could play second fiddle in a contra dance band in Tucson. I also have 16" viola and a small cello that I have tuned an octave below the violin.
Then I discovered the mandolin. It is tuned and fingers like the violin, but there is one big difference in that the mandolin has frets. At this time my fiddle playing is not something that I would impose upon others, but my mandolin playing is not bad.
For the past twenty years or so I have also been interested in flutes and whistles. About twelve years ago I started making simple-system flutes from pvc pipe. Currently, I have made over one thousand flutes, and my flutes are being played in many countries around the world.
So at 63, I am still making flutes every day, but I also have time to pick up the many different instruments that fill my living space. I have a African djembe drum beside my computer table. I have Tibetan singing bowls, kalimbas or African thumb harps, a number of harmonicas, Middle Eastern frame drums, digeridoos, shakahachis, quenas, and many other flutes. No matter what my mood is, I have an instrument to try to express my feelings at the moment.