Anybody also play non-stringed instruments?

[Kerbie]

Drums, piano (although it has strings), soprano and alto recorders.

[ifret]

Currently, Native American Flute.

In my past...alto saxophone, flute, and recorder.

[fumei]

flute, clarinet, french horn

also piano, but I did not include it as piano is a string instrument

[Street Glider]

I can play basic chords on a piano.

I can also play sax and drums...

[rllink]

I played trumpet in school and then again in ISU summer band. But it is hard to play trumpet around the bon fire and sing. It just doesn't have the same feel to it as strumming a six string. I also have a Tonette that I play around with sometimes but I'm not very fluent with it.

[robj144]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

Besides bass & mandolin I also dabble in a little piano myself.

The piano is a stringed instrument.

I play a bunch of virtual non-stringed instruments with a keyboard in a DAW. Does that count?

[Bob from Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by robj144

The piano is a stringed instrument.

I thought of that but my piano weighs 26.01 lbs. and I'm afraid to open it up and look for strings.

[rllink]

Originally Posted by robj144

The piano is a stringed instrument.

I play a bunch of virtual non-stringed instruments with a keyboard in a DAW. Does that count?

I believe piano is considered a percussion instrument.

[FrankHudson]

I like playing small percussion sometimes, not very good at it. I always loved the table that the Art Ensemble of Chicago had of little instruments, mostly percussive that they'd use during their improvisations.

I call myself a "naive keyboard player" in that I have no technique and yet I've increasingly played keys since my more than 40 year musical partner and keyboard player now has significant physical limitations in his playing. I play almost entirely one handed, and I'm not adverse to using arpeggiators or map a chord to a key short hand/cheats to fill out what I can play conventionally. I record LH and RH piano parts in two passes when faking solo or piano featured things. Live, I stick to what one hand can do.

I've blown into a harmonica sometimes. I've sat on a simple motif on it once or twice for piece, but what I can do is trivial.

I don't count virtual orchestral and ethnic instruments because even though I'm using different timbres, attacks, pitch ranges, and so forth I'm not really intimately handling a foreign to me instrument, instead using my guitar MIDI interface or a little plastic keyboard.

[ghostnote]

I mess around with keyboards; I always have one ready to go in my music room. I'm not a player, however: I get by well enough to use it on recordings, where I can make mistakes and just hit "delete" until I get it right. If I was asked to play it with other people in real time, I'd have to refuse. That would be embarrassing.

[islandguitar]

Many years ago.....trombone....classically trained. Really enjoyed being a part of orchestras and symphonies during those years.

[robj144]

Originally Posted by ghostnote

I mess around with keyboards; I always have one ready to go in my music room. I'm not a player, however: I get by well enough to use it on recordings, where I can make mistakes and just hit "delete" until I get it right. If I was asked to play it with other people in real time, I'd have to refuse. That would be embarrassing.

Are you playing a MIDI keyboard through a DAW?

[OldLefty]

Piano was my first instrument.

One of the nice things about guitars is that you can (sometimes) get a left handed guitar....

[ghostnote]

Are you playing a MIDI keyboard through a DAW?

No - just a cheap keyboard direct into a recorder or miced live in the room amped through a 4 x 10 cabinet. Run it through some guitar pedals if I want effects on the track itself instead of adding effects later. To me, music is much easier to understand on a keyboard - all the notes are right there and you can visualize the chords in different ways with just a glance. But as with anything else, if you want to do it well you have to do it a lot, and I don't. I'm a guitar player.

[Daniel Grenier]

That reminded me. I have a drum kit in the basement and it needs dusting.