What was the first musical instrument you got?

[Spinneret]

It was a flute

 

[GAN]

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Don’t remember ever having one.

 

[fly girl]

Technically, you could probably say a dime store recorder. However, since I don't remember how I attained it my suspicions believe it was a hand-me-down toy from my sister.

Now this, I do remember. Christmas 1985.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Accordion… I enjoyed playing it!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

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Yep, me too. The school gave them out and taught us some songs. I could probably still play a mean rendition of Hot Cross Buns.

 

[amcnj]

Other than musical toys when I was really young, the first real instrument was a trumpet in fourth grade. There were school lessons too, once a week I believe.

 

[White Cat]

Zither.

 

[AnnaS]

Flute - played it in school. Loved it.

 

[antmaril]

Clarinet. Didn‘t like it. Then, I took accordion lessons until I was 18. Only my closest friends knew I played the accordion, though. Even in the 60’s, it wasn’t really cool.

 

[Magical2017]

The clarinet. I was awful.

 

[Moliphino]

Probably a kazoo.

 

[DisneyHardin]

A violin - I took violin lessons for a few years in elementary school, then when I went to middle school, I switched to Clarinet and played that through college.

 

[bluezy]

A piano...started lessons at age 4.

 

[MamaMermaid]

I think a keyboard.

 

[lynxstch]

A piano. My grandmother was a classical pianist and a piano teacher. To my mother's dismay, she insisted on our having a piano in the house so I could learn to play and bought us one.

 

[SharonZ]

A Zither (WTH), we still laugh about it.

 

[E&Cmom]

Piano. I have played since I was 7.

 

[mrodgers]

First, last, and what I got in between as well.

Got a acoustic guitar for Christmas in 3rd grade. I'd rather play baseball, basketball, football, hockey, swim, and all the rest of the kids stuff than sit and practice Twinkle Twinkle Little Star so I quit taking lessons. I don't know how they do it now, but teaching a kid guitar lessons with reading music and learning 2 notes and playing things like Twinkle Twinkle is the wrong way to get a kid interested. I don't know what my parents did with that guitar.

Fast forward to adulthood, married, kids to take care of, house and cars to take care of, job, etc, wife bought me an acoustic guitar for Christmas. Well, there's internet now and TABS and video tutorials and rather than Twinkle Twinkle, I'm playing Wish You Were Here by my favorite band. I noodled around learning some blues and playing with Pink Floyd stuff, but couldn't get a bar chord to ring out for anything.

Then I got my electric guitar. First thing I do is plug it in and ring out a perfect G bar chord. Bingo, the easier thinner strings of an electric was what I needed to get the technique correct which then grabbing the acoustic a few weeks later, bar chords were no problem.

I've played around off and on just learning songs. I can't play the guitar. I can play Shine on You Crazy Diamonds, Wish You Were Here, Money, and a whole slew of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour songs and solos. Haven't touched it in probably 10 years. Just picked it up again to learn how to play Echoes, which they describe as a 23 minute conversation between David Gilmour's guitar and Richard Wright's keyboards. May as well go for broke with basically a 23 minute guitar solo after not fretting a string for a decade, LOL.

 

[DonnaJerrily]

It's awesome to reminisce about my first musical instrument – it was a humble acoustic guitar. I remember feeling both excited and a bit overwhelmed, trying to figure out those basic chords.