The one instrument you wish you could play

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by Pingu » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:20 am

IFoughtTheLaw wrote:
BenHagerty wrote: You know, I really wish I could sing and had confidence.
+1  :)
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I'd even be happy with a good talk-sing voice, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGoz5oeX ... re=related
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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by BoringPostcards » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:24 am

I wish I could play Piano like Brad Mehldau and drums like Billy Martin.
I also wish I had a sitar kicking around.  I've played them before and they're really fun.
I also wish I could play a mean Saxophone.  I don't got the lungs for the wind instruments.  Although I used to play clarinet.
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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by BoringPostcards » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:26 am

Pingu wrote:
IFoughtTheLaw wrote:
BenHagerty wrote: You know, I really wish I could sing and had confidence.
+1  :)
+2

I'd even be happy with a good talk-sing voice, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGoz5oeX ... re=related
whoa..  Arab Strap!  I forgot all about those cats.  I heard a few of their tracks back in the late 90s and haven't came across them in forever.
I really love the track "cherubs"
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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by plexicrunch » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:29 pm

Theremin.  ;D

or guitar.  >:(

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by crazyzeke » Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:00 am

Six pages in and no love for the Jew's Harp?  You disappoint me, Mr Anderson.
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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by mikkiki » Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:49 am

idiotbear wrote: I wish I could play drums. I really do. Plus, if I could welly shit out of a kit every day, I might be thinner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPCXsVniUj0

doesn't seem like it applies to aaron spears... and i think he plays the drums pretty much. :ph34r:

i'd really like to be able to play drums as well. i'm seeing myself more and more like a rhythm guy. to be able to play those drums like, for example, aaron spears would be so awesome. it's just so damn groovy and tight. some day i actually think i'll get more into it. i'm just afraid i will never pick much up and really get good and then i would think it was a bit of a loss/time waste.

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by sdscanz » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:54 pm

i wish i could play an mpc. i know it doesn't seem like you really "play" any of that kind of stuff, but being able to use an mpc predominantly in a live setting would be really cool.
that and being able to sing ad actually know what i'm doing.

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by Janus » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:14 pm

steel drums! hopefully next year i'll be able to pick up a pair

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by mcconnachiea » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:16 am

Finefish wrote:oh, and this would be pretty awesome to master as well!  :)
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That looks like its giving birth to two other pipe organs

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by jaguarOW » Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:42 am

Janus wrote:steel drums! hopefully next year i'll be able to pick up a pair
so much fun to play in a group of people :P

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by secndshft » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:21 am

Harpsichord. I have had a fascination with them since I was 3.

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by hound of winter » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:00 pm

If by "could play", we're talking about flipping a switch and becoming a virtuoso on a particular instrument, I'd probably choose the Guzheng:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewcucNrOHb0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No idea why but I've been enamored with them for as long as I can remember. I'm Irish & Scottish by descent, you'd think I'd choose the pennywhistle or something :derp: Runners-up include the Piano & the Cello.

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by pj » Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:06 am

I need to buy a drumset. I started on drums and still love them. Guitar and bass are fun but I want to hit things w/ sticks w/o being arrested and the drums are the best way to do that.

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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by BoringPostcards » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:43 pm

secndshft wrote:Harpsichord. I have had a fascination with them since I was 3.
Yea, me too. They definitely are very unique sounding instruments. Clavichords/clavinets are pretty cool too.
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Re: The one instrument you wish you could play

Post by BoringPostcards » Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:04 pm

spinet

i want one.
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