How many Multi instrumentalists are there ?

[DreamTheaterRules]

‘Nuff said…

Yes, you're forgiven. HAHAHAHAHAA

 

[DISTORT6]

Yes, you're forgiven. HAHAHAHAHAA

Pffft. Delusional.

 

[archtop]

I play more than 10 instruments, but they're all guitars

 

[Lola]

Piano
Clarinet
Flute
Sax
Recorder(alto, soprano)
But I didn’t say I was good at any of them.

 

[shinksma]

Hmm, good question!

In rough order of frequency of use, with only the keyboard as "weak", middling to fair on the others I suppose:
Guitar (Elec & acoustic, plus lap steel; 6, 7, and 8 string electrics)
Vocals
Mandolin
Drums (rock'n'roll kit)
Banjo (almost all Irish Tenor, but I do have a 5 string)
Bass
Mandola
Ukulele
Harmonica
Other drums (Cajon, Djembe, Bodhran) & misc percussion
Keyboards (very minimal - would like to play more, but I get distra..hey, a bird!)

I also own a didgeridoo and an ehru. I managed to learn how to make a consistent drone with the Didge years ago, but now it is just wall art. The ehru has always been just wall art.

Oh, and I own a couple of recorders, which I have played in years gone by, but they are now borrowed by a bandmate when we have practice at my place so she doesn't need to drag over all of hers.

 

[watelessness]

drums, bass, guitar, keys, flute, vox

 

[Tom Bradovich]

I played alto and baritone sax, but that was 43 years ago!

I played alto sax from 4th grade thru high school. Could read music, too, but from non use, I can't.

Bodia, what about you? Can you still read notes? Can you play songs on the sax?

Few years back, me & wife at the time spent a few days with a good friend & his wife. We hit the bars, came back to his place and he pulled out his old sax which has sat unused for at least 10 years. Nonetheless, we had a ball. Next day after the Alka Seltzer breakfast, I asked my wife how friend and I sounded on sax. She looks away and says something like "well, it was OK." I pressed and she then said "It was awful, it was just a bunch of noise."

I blame it on the pads - they were almost brittle

 

[Tom Bradovich]

I double as the “Phantom Raspberry Blower”.

What a great photo of you - hairy forearms and all . Your drummer/photographer does know what he's doing - that depth of field in that shot is perfect, and the overlay of sheet music makes it all sing.

 

[Lola]

What a great photo of you - hairy forearms and all . Your drummer/photographer does know what he's doing - that depth of field in that shot is perfect, and the overlay of sheet music makes it all sing.

This a could be an album cover! Brilliantly executed!

 

[bodia]

I played alto sax from 4th grade thru high school. Could read music, too, but from non use, I can't.

Bodia, what about you? Can you still read notes? Can you play songs on the sax?

Few years back, me & wife at the time spent a few days with a good friend & his wife. We hit the bars, came back to his place and he pulled out his old sax which has sat unused for at least 10 years. Nonetheless, we had a ball. Next day after the Alka Seltzer breakfast, I asked my wife how friend and I sounded on sax. She looks away and says something like "well, it was OK." I pressed and she then said "It was awful, it was just a bunch of noise."

I blame it on the pads - they were almost brittle

No, like you, years of non use and that ability is long gone. As is the alto sax (the bari belonged to the school). I started playing at 11 and quit at 16. Convinced my parents to let me trade it in on a guitar and amp.

 

[Tom Bradovich]

Convinced my parents to let me trade it in on a guitar and amp.

Smart move. My Dad paid monthly payments to the local music store, so it was enforced that I play that sucker thru HS.

 

[bodia]

Smart move. My Dad paid monthly payments to the local music store, so it was enforced that I play that sucker thru HS.

I'm surprised they let me do it. My dad paid for mine the same way.

 

[Lola]

I still have my clarinet. The pads are all dried up. I had my flute but I got into a fight with my brother and used it as a weapon to defend myself. The mouth piece suffered a very tragic death. I don’t even know where it is now, attic, garage, basement?

 

[archtop]

I still have my clarinet. The pads are all dried up. I had my flute but I got into a fight with my brother and used it as a weapon to defend myself. The mouth piece suffered a very tragic death. I don’t even know where it is now, attic, garage, basement?

You need to keep a Tele around to deal with aggressive family, fans or anyone else who bothers you.

 

[Lola]

You need to keep a Tele around to deal with aggressive family, fans or anyone else who bothers you.

That was amazing! I never saw this before but I remember this event in detail. My parents had gone to the legion for a dance and that’s when my brother got out his marching band drum out and was walking up and down the hallway banging away just trying to get my goat while I was trying to listen to Gino Vanelli. I got so mad at him that I picked up my flute and whacked him in the shoulder with it. Very immature on both of our parts. But that’s life! Live and learn.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

What a great photo of you - hairy forearms and all . Your drummer/photographer does know what he's doing - that depth of field in that shot is perfect, and the overlay of sheet music makes it all sing.

Thanks Tom, I’m quite often teased about wearing a sweater under my t-shirt.

Useful in the cold Scottish winters.

This a could be an album cover! Brilliantly executed!

Thanks @Lola but no one would need to see that!

Haha.

I still have my clarinet. The pads are all dried up. I had my flute but I got into a fight with my brother and used it as a weapon to defend myself. The mouth piece suffered a very tragic death. I don’t even know where it is now, attic, garage, basement?

Feisty!

 

[DreamTheaterRules]

That was amazing! I never saw this before but I remember this event in detail. My parents had gone to the legion for a dance and that’s when my brother got out his marching band drum out and was walking up and down the hallway banging away just trying to get my goat while I was trying to listen to Gino Vanelli. I got so mad at him that I picked up my flute and whacked him in the shoulder with it. Very immature on both of our parts. But that’s life! Live and learn.

Yet another first for me. First time I've ever heard of a flute used as a weapon. I'm assuming you didn't want to do real damage or you'd have gone full El Kabong mode on him.

 

[archtop]

Yet another first for me. First time I've ever heard of a flute used as a weapon. I'm assuming you didn't want to do real damage or you'd have gone full El Kabong mode on him.

I’ve always consider flute used in 60’s rock music, and the Mash theme song, to be “flute used as a weapon”, @Lola is just more honest and direct about “flute used as a weapon”.

 

[Lola]

I’ve always consider flute used in 60’s rock music, and the Mash theme song, to be “flute used as a weapon”, @Lola is just more honest and direct about “flute used as a weapon”.

I would have hit with anything I could. He always criticized my musical choices and I really disliked that about him. My father just absolutely hated my music because that music was something that his daughter should not of been listening to because only drug addled hippies listening to it. It was classical music and big band in my house. Nothing but. My father wouldn’t tolerate anything else. When I came home with a Black Sabbath album and played Sweet Leaf he lost his mind.

 

[Greywolf]

I love it folks .. so my unofficial polls says teh majority of us do .. that rocks !