What musical instruments can/did you play

SplshMtn99 · May 31, 2003

Any other former band geeks here?

We had a really good music dept in our school system (Blackstone-Millville Regional, MA), with TONS of awards - some national. They really pushed that you be able to play more than 1 instrument.

I played:
clarinet (6 yrs)
alto sax (3 yrs)
oboe (1 yr)
and I can find my way around a flute, keyboard & guitar.

It was a CHORE trying to carry 3 cases onto the bus along with school books.

Concert band practice....marching band rehersals, trips to competitions & camp.......then stage (jazz) band practice.....and private lessons. I even gave private lessons to 6 elementary school students while I was in high school.

Can you say "BAND GEEK"????? :rolleyes:

LOL

Your turn to confess!

Brer_Papa · May 31, 2003

I started playing the accordian in 1955 at the age of 5.....Pop had hopes i woold be on Lawrence Welk someday...

I played that until 1963-1964 when something happened...The BEATLES!...lol

I switched to guitar....much to Pop's dismay....

through the years, i also got a couple banjo's....a four stringer and a five stringer....

i didn't play in the high school band....so i missed out on all those ..."This one time...at band camp"....stories....lol

SplshMtn99 · May 31, 2003

Originally posted by Brer_Papa
i didn't play in the high school band....so i missed out on all those ..."This one time...at band camp"....stories....lol

ROFL --- yup, I've got ALOT of those!

Lynn CC · May 31, 2003

I never played anything

Band was never offered in the elementary school I went to in South Boston. When I went into 6th grade I had a music teacher who made the girls feel like they didn't belong, so that was the end of that.
DS has played the trumpet since 5th grade. He'll be a Junior next year and is taking Honors Concert Band, he's in the Marching Band too! He loves it!

I didn't know you were so talented Joanne.......although I should have known just by looking at your scrapping

They say children that play an instrument score higher in Math and Science.

dizneenut · May 31, 2003

I played violin from grade 4-8. I played flute from grade 4-12. I loved being in band. We had so much fun! :teeth:

laceemouse · May 31, 2003

I played the flute in HS band and I still have it! My oldest daughter is in jr. high and now she plays it. My second daughter has played the clarinet for one year and has decided to switch to sax. She LOVES jazz music! Yes, I can still play the flute. We have a book with CD of all the Disney classics and it is so fun to try to play along! "Be our Guest" is really, really fast on the CD. I would love to learn piano and guitar, even at 40!!

olena · May 31, 2003

percussion and flute. I marched flag during football season. My best instrument is voice.

Brer_Papa · May 31, 2003

SplshMn...thanks for the smiles....

i see we have enough talent to start up a band and parade down Main Street...maybe we should post a "xylophone player needed" to round out the ensemble....

Secretly, i always wanted to be a drummer....Pop drew the line there.....i believe his quote was someting lke this : "

I put up with the twang twang but no way am i listening to bang bang!"

the previous quote was sanitized to a G rating

DMickey28 · May 31, 2003

Another band geek. I played clarinet from grade 4 through college. Marching band, christmas band, concert band, drama club pit music. I played alto sax for jazz band and marched percussion for winter percussion. I also play the piano!

Lot's of band camps and competitions. I miss those days when you had a hundred built in friends to travel with on the weekends!

SplshMtn99 · May 31, 2003

DMickey --- did you happen to attend D-Y on the Cape? If so, we used to compete against you. Norwood, MA was our biggest competition....but D-Y was awefully hard to beat too!

SplshMtn99 · May 31, 2003

Originally posted by Brer_Papa
i see we have enough talent to start up a band and parade down Main Street...maybe we should post a "xylophone player needed" to round out the ensemble....

OMG - what a GREAT idea! Just another excuse for a trip to WDW! :teeth:

SplshMtn99 · May 31, 2003

Originally posted by Lynn CC
They say children that play an instrument score higher in Math and Science.

Yup - that's me!

browneyes · May 31, 2003

I can play the clarinet (usually the soprano, but I also played the bass). I tried to teach myself how to play the piano, but I can either play it extremely, extremly slow :teeth:

, or only 1 handed (either just the treble side or just the bass side).

Playing the clarinet took me to my first trip to WDW.

We marched in a parade there.

Kitty 34 · May 31, 2003

I used to play the drums and still do now and then when I'm subbing in band.......I'll ask one of the drummer's for their sticks and then proceed to play our marching cadence!!

I also have a piano which I sort of play!!

snuggles · May 31, 2003

I was a music major in college and I play(ed) the flute as my principal instrument. I took French Horn lessons for a while but didn't continue on with it. I was in the high school band and some of my best memories are of band camp and football trips. I didnt graduate from college because I met this guy (trombone player).... who was a music major too. :teeth:

We have a musical family including a dd who is a music ed major (flute) and a dd who plays trumpet and french horn in the high school symphonic and marching bands.

Kirby · May 31, 2003

My son started out with the trombone in 6th grade and switched to percussion in the 7th. He's in the 9th grade now and trying out for the bass drum in the drum line this Fall. He will begin drum set lessons this summer. He can pick out a tune on the piano.

My daughter (6th grade) started out on trumpet but that instrument was very frustrating for her. Her band teacher switched her to clarinet and it has been great since.

I took piano as a child and can still play simple tunes.

My husband was a percussionist in Middle School but he dropped out because he didn't want to march at the football games.

Bunchkin · May 31, 2003

Another concert band/marching band/jazz band person checking in!!!

I started playing clarinet in 5th grade.

And Shannon, I too went to WDW with the marching band to march in a parade!! It was in 1986.

SplshMtn99 · May 31, 2003

Shannon, marching band brought me to my first trip to WDW too!

I remember marching down Main St USA & around the hub & into Frontierland --- or was it the other direction? After all these years I still never get which way the parade will be heading. LOL

And wow --- we have ALOT of clarinet players here!

aprincessmom · May 31, 2003

Started with the violin. Was moved to viola because they needed more viola players. Then picked up the cello for fun.

No marching band, though. Not much call for string players in marching band

DemonLlama · May 31, 2003

Oboe throughout school, picked up the piccolo (and by extension, the flute) in high school so I didn't get stuck playing the cymbals during marching season.

Like aprincessmom, my instrument isn't part of the marching band since it warps in the outdoor air after a while. The Loree oboe I was using cost $3000, so you can see why this wasn't a good thing!

Piano lessons since I was 7 (until I dropped them in high school), too.

Band Geeks Rule! :smooth:

What musical instruments can/did you play

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