...**INSTRUMENT!** (don't read into that please - ;`P )

Most people play, or have played, an instrument in their lifetime, so show me what "your" intrument is or was. It can be childhood photos or current images - it doesn't matter. From kazoos to tubas, show me what you got!

I took 2+ years of the violin as a boy and still have my fiddle, though the bow is coming apart, and one of the strings broke while I was posing for these shots (thanks to my wife Lisa for taking them). I can only play a few tunes still, and it is kinda squeeky when I do. But I have fun...

=o] ps. My thanks to Marlene for giving me this idea.

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Oooohhhh.....very cool idea, Kort! Your wife did good on taking those pics and your poses are very natural. Well done! I don't have a pic right now, but I'll go take one today. I took 10 years of piano lessons. The piano is at Grandma's, so I'll take a pic when I go over there today. :) Now I'm curious to see everyone else's images!! :D

i used to play keyboards...taught myself when i was in my early 20s. i already forgot how to play though 'cause i stopped practicing. when i was a kid i had a set of bongos that i ADORED. wish i still had them!!! kort, Lisa took great pictures! wish i could hear you play! :)

LOL LOL LOL -- no you don't! =o] I need a lot of practice to get anywhere near passable again. Looks like a fun keyboard Sheila. I played around with them but was never taught how to use one. I've played the French Horn, Bass fiddle, and bugle in my day...

Well my instrument is actually my voice.. ((just a snap shot here..)) use to belong to choir for quite a few years, still do at times.. if numbers short. Also sang in a small group when a teenager./ early 20's. Kort.. love the violin, brillaint p'graphy from your wife. maybe she should join R.R..:).. love the compo. so beautifully presented :) Oh shelia..maybe take it up again at some point in the future.

Actually, she just did. She's going by the handle LisaHuntArt. She doesn't have much time to comment, but finally succumbed to my urgings that RO was a good place to show her watercolor work. Nice soundboard there Nikki, I bet it compliments your voice beautifully. =]

I wasn't sure what to expect from you Tedz, but I must say your photo is finger-pickin good! I forgot to mention that I took 6 months of classical guitar lesson with an overbearing Japanese teacher. I didn't enjoy it - so committed seppuku. I recovered, but never took up the instrument again.

....but i cant play anything..sniff...sniff. I did play hockey...but that sounded horrible and i cant very well post a shot of that can i. So ill sit this one out..sigh. Great Simon though, enjoy seeing what your other talents are besides photography.

@Kort will look for lisahuntart.. pleased to hear.. :) its a 14 channel mackie mixer @ tedz.."Everytime l look into your eyes, makes me wanna sing like ernie wise..:).. you hum it l,ll sing it.. @ Andreas.. have a cool idea... a pair of spoons..or a comb and tracing paper.. thimble and wash board.. you,ll think of something... :)

Yeah Andreas, I said even a kazoo would do.... :)

LMAO@Kort!!! Look at that dismantled thingie (dunno the English word for it)!!! O_o Like Andreas, I'm definitely not a musician!! I don't have the ear AT ALL!!! I tried guitar YEARS ago and dropped it after 2 lessons!!! No pics on my part either then! Unless I can enter a pic of Laurent? He's the musician of the family! :) The tunes on my website are his creations! :D

Don't have any recent pix of me playing my GEE-TAR! I started back in 4th grade (yeah, way back in the 70's! and countinued on into my high-school years! Some friends and I formed a band called LOGIC in 84-85! We played Duran Duran, Adam ANT, ACDC and OzzY! Sort of a NEW WAVE,METAL thang going on...guess you could say we couldn't find out niche! A funny story...We were getting ready to play at the schools talent show! Right before the show, I put on a new set of strings and did not cut the excess from the tuning heads! As the curtain started to open, they got snagged on the curtain and it was almost pulled outta my hand! I managed to hold on and yank it off...but the guitar was now major league out of tune! Funny thing is no-one seemed to notice! We ended up comin in 2nd place!

Glad I gave you the idea Kortalouche.Hmmm gonna have to take a pic of my keyboards now.Can't do the other thing you asked for though,lol.

OOOOH Andreas you lie!!!!!!

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great thread Kort.. very interesting to see everyone's... always wanted to play the piano since we had one when i was young.. but then i moved...

Marlene.....ssssssshhhhhh. And just so you know Pascale. I DO have ears...two of them...dont see how thats relevant though...its not like i can take any chords with them. Okay, i will see what i can come up with.....

@ joe heheheh Eric clapton eat ya heart out.. or roger waters..a real cute..with ya acoustics.. @ cindy lovely memories, you look a real little sweetheart so natural on those keys to...

Great thread Kort.I see you are right into it LOL.Nikki That is a cool image.Sheila...get the plant off and play LOL.Excellent strum shot Tedz...Hey Joe....budding Clapton I see...And of course the little sweetie...legs dangling...play it again cynlee.. My Roland..I can only play what I hear and forgot how to read music.. One day I hope to add software to get this thing hooked into my PC...or whatever you have to do. Not looked into it much.

Ok here's mine Kortalouche.It's my Roland.Well,part of it,lol.I play mostly by ear but can read notes if I'm forced to.(But I have to do that 'every-good-boy-does-fine' thing for every note,lol!)

I used to play the guitar but ultimately chose having nails over callouses in high school.Such vanity!

Honestly,I prefer most of all to sing.But I couldn't very well take a pic of my throat,lol!And I don't have a mike like Nikki's,sigh.
Oh,and I put these guys in just for fun since the pic was kinda boring when I first took it.Isn't it nice to see them finally getting along?LOL.

Sigh...More evidence of my geekdom...8^B)
HP ;D

Hahaha, big laugh - thanks Marlenalouche! It took me a little while to figure out it was the Spy vs. Spy guys. I thought it was some weird Tim Burton creation there for a sec. And I think a photo of your throat would have been lovely! ;oP Doug, great looking Roland - where is YOUR plant? ;P I was first exposed to Rolands listening to the music of Duran Duran when I was a wee laddie. What a cutie you were Cyn. Sorry that you never got to really learn it...you can come over and practice on Lisa's anytime. Joe, those are 2 great shots! Keep on rockin! Actally, there is a Nu-metal category these days.... ;^]

Tried guitar as a kid, not long enough for any snapshots. Great subject.

Hey Doug those MIDI interface thingies don't cost that much! You can setup a digital multi-track studio that way and also use it as a sequencer! Tracks can be layered and you can even see the notes (in a musical staff) depending on the software used!

Midi stuff

I've always wanted to get my hands on one of the Roland Guitar Synths...pretty cool to be able to have access to a wholw library of instruments and play'em on the guitar! You can even have each string assigned to a different sound!

(if interested) Checkout this link for more info! Has some videos of the g-synth in action (ITS WICKED!) just click on Multimedia on the right menu of this page!

Roland GR20

BTW! Some great shots here! Cool to know we have so many musical peeps around here! (hmmmm a photo forum BAND in the makin' HEHE!)

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simply wonderful images, i enjoy all a lot. ok, i want to show my piano too. of course i love it. !!!!!!!! #:O)!!!!!!!!!!

My first instrument was the bagpipes. :wide evil grin: I've taught myself how to read music 3 times, but can barely manage a note at a time... so no keyboards. Was practicing the recorder (which you've seen in my CD entry) up in Yosemite a couple decades ago when a wandering photographer asked if he could take my picture. If I was practicing the bagpipes, I doubt if he'd have searched for the musician in the trees. ;^) My marriage had just broken up and I was piecing life back together... he caught something of that. Carolly

Carrolly, that's an AWESOME image of you! sorry you were going thru bad times. :( Marlene...i just ADORE that image!!! Cindy, Joe...you guys are such cute kids!!! luv those pics! Brian, bet you do fiddle with your organ a lot! LOL! :) Gerhard, bet you play like a dream! Doug, looks like a fun toy! Nikki, Marlene...wish i could hear you guys sing!!! i used to sing too (in choir, drama club and stuff). i'm a soprano who sounds like a howling cat! LOL! :)

@ Gerhald.. well l bet your playing is as beautiful as your presentation of this paino.. @ carolly lovely to meet you.. and sorry youre going through tough times.. @ shelia lm a soprano as well, but dont keep it up as l should. all excellent image .. excellent simon says kort..:)

My upright grand piano! (I also play a gibson guitar and ghiminheart flute , fife and a little clarenette and oregon!) ... this one i have posted before its a 1908 mahagony hand carved! ..

Wow , Great images every one. I didn't realize how many photographers had musical talents. I make my own instruments out of Calabash Gourds. The Gourds are found all over the world and used for many things , one of them being some form of musical instruments that take the form of rattles and drums mostly. My image is of the stages a drum goes through from the raw gourd to the finished drum and I threw in a rattle as well.

Neat gourd instruments Tasquah! Great photos everyone, this Simon was music to my eyes! 8`]

A realllllly good Simon, indeed! What a selection of instruments we have! and I'm actually not surprised to find all the musicians behind lenses... someone who thinks creatively usually lets it out through several avenues. Carolly

Indeed. Marlene mentioned to me much the same thing the other day. It makes sense I suppose, though I know visual artists that could not play a note if their life depended on it! :)

Yep!! U got that right Kortalouche!! That's me alright! :(

That's why they have kiddie xylophones with the colors and the letters... perfectly tuned. No need to die if you're allowed a choice of instrument. :) Carolly

for Carolly: i know i am breaking the rule of posting more then one.. i'll make it small & quick this is my Uncle Bob (Marvin) being silly.. he has been playing (mostly Baroque) & making Renaissance recorders for a very long time & is very much in demand in Europe your photo reminded me of him as well as your quick wit http://www.oberlin.edu/wwwcomm/ats/atspast/ats0497/ats0497_recorders.html http://members.inode.at/list/instrumentseng.htm

cynlee, I didn't even try to do something for the "rocks" Simon... because this house is full of too many special ones... enough for a book, not just a thread, so a single image? Right. Anyway, I like your uncle. ;) One of my aquaintances plays the recorders with her nose. It is somewhat disturbing to watch, but she gets a tune out of them. We can do almost anything if we practice hard enough! Thanks for the links, too. I wonder how we humans discovered that blowing through a tube would yield a sound, but we might have started with horns and shells (found objects) before shaping instruments. There is a stone age bone flute, so the knowledge of how to coax out more than one sound is very, very old. Carolly

haha.. yes.. he's made a few of those (bone flutes) ..hadn't thought about it till you said that! what child wouldn't love a handmade bone flute from her fave uncle! he did make me my very own recorder too but i can only play the very basics, i do treasure it... luv to listen to him play (the only time i tried out the record option on my cam) & then there's that wonderful natural linseed oil smell that has always followed him about :]