Looking to learn a new instrument.

[pipersgrip]

As much as I love the flute/whistle, it still has its ups and downs when playing. Lets say something happens to my teeth, lips, or just get out of breath easily. It is always good to know two different instruments. It is also good for learning tunes, especially the tunes to play every key in. So I need help finding another good instrument to learn. Those are the four main ones that I would like to learn.

[Martin Milner]

Fiddle is the cheapest of those options, and as portable as any of them.

[I.D.10-t]

The violin also seems like the most musically versatile. By this I mean that it is used in many different styles of music compared to say, a traditionally tuned fife.

It has a nice dynamic range, can play just intonation and equal temperament with little adjustment, is easy to mute for practice, it is tunable, and finding people to work on it for repairs is not difficult.

No, experience with them personally (really not my cup of tea) but if you like the things and how they sound I would think they would be a lovely instrument (Not that other instruments aren't great and have their own unique voices).

[izzarina]

Fiddle!! But I'm incredibly biased on that one...

[Thomaston]

Banjo!

[missy]

Mountain Dulcimer!

[Innocent Bystander]

Mountain Dulcimer.

You can't play the thing fast unless you are some kind of genius, so it slows the whole approach and you learn to breathe. Fiddle is next best thing, I suppose.

[feadogin]

Stay away from fiddle unless you have access to a good teacher. It is a really challenging instrument. I tried to learn fiddle for years and ended up switching to uilleann pipes, which turned out to be easier for me. Granted, I was lucky enough to get lessons from a good local piper, but I think the fiddle is the hardest instrument out there.

I vote for the button box!

[dubhlinn]

Get a grip of the one ye have...

The new one will be worse..maybe different.

Fiddle is a way of Life...

The rest are tools...

Slan,
D.

[Thomaston]

Theremin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wph6wGwP ... re=channel

[Coffee]

My vote is for an instrument that just doesn't seem to get quite the respect it's due. An instrument that holds the distinction of being the absolute first instrument ever played by a human being; the voicebox.
It also holds the distinction of being the absolute most portable instrument. Plays in any key, and with training you should be able to get three-plus full octaves out of it.

[Innocent Bystander]

Yeah, but the real problem is: where do you hide the rest of the body!

[cowtime]

piano, it'll keep you for the rest of your life

[CHasR]

well if youre worried about something happening to your lips/ lungs/teeth;
(a.k.a. the tootblart /bleep family)

Then you'll have to look into strings ( a.k.a the scratchscrape/ plink family).

I suggest double bass. There arent nearly enough bass players, if you miss a note no one will really know, you'll never have to take a solo (and if you do, everyone will go out for a smoke anyway) & youll always get a seat on the bus.
Now Im not saying take up bass guitar..., but th eupright bass: it's got a certain mystique guitars dont have.

[izzarina]

I suggest double bass. There arent nearly enough bass players, if you miss a note no one will really know, you'll never have to take a solo (and if you do, everyone will go out for a smoke anyway) & youll always get a seat on the bus.
Now Im not saying take up bass guitar..., but th eupright bass: it's got a certain mystique guitars dont have.

Yeah!! Then you can be a cool cat and sing "Is you is, or is you ain't my baby"