Nice instruments, Yearg.
Nice instruments, Yearg.
Most of them are just non-functional crap. The horn has an unfixable leak on the Bb side. The cornet is a crappy student model. The clarinet is functional, but it's a frankenstein of different parts from different instruments. It's passable. The brass trombone is a beat up old student model. The plastic trombone is one I picked up recently for my own use and plays pretty well for a $150 piece of plastic. The flugelhorn is on long-term loan from a local band director (I don't think he wants it back) and even though it's not the best, I do use it to gig since I don't have one of my own.Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod
Usually there are a couple of more things on stands sitting around the front like my wife's decent clarinets, flutes and saxophones as well as some extra student models of that same (that I pick up and play sometimes). But we're doing a theatre production at the moment, so she needs most of her instruments.
I tend to keep my trumpets (Bb, C and piccolo) and a functioning horn in my office or in the garage where I tend to practice, but we play a lot of duets in the living room so that's where she keeps a lot of her stuff except for her oboe which she actually keeps in the case (in the bottom left cubby) Off to the left (out of frame) is one of our keyboards and one of our cheap acoustic guitars.
There are seriously instruments pouring out of nearly every room of the house. She's got two bass clarinets in her office and a partial alto clarinet and, for some reason, the bassoon is sitting in the back of my office I think from us recently doing trombone/bassoon duets.
I wish I had the embouchure to play clarinet. Years later when my brother played it, I wasn't able to even make a sound.
Anyway I would think that mixing and matching pieces on a clarinet would produce an odd sound
How many instruments can you play? o_O
Me or he?
Yearg.
I am jealous of your musical ability.
I didn't manage yesterday, but here is it today. It's actually pretty messy at the moment. I've been in the middle of re-arranging and cleaning some stuff out.
Also, until I zoomed in on your picture, I thought your wine bottles were pump action shotguns with some sort of color coded tape on the slides, and that you were clearly paranoid and insane for storing 4 weapons next to your TV. I swear I'm not crazy. If you squint the whole right side kinda looks like a gun rack.
...I really, really need to go to bed
I play all of the brass instruments passably well to varying degrees, though primarily I play, and gig with, trumpet (including C, Eb/D, piccolo, flugel) and piano. I can get around on sax and clarinet, but not well enough that I'd let anyone pay me to play for a performance. I was pretty good at oboe in college, but I couldn't do a thing on it now. I'm absolutely miserable at flute. My wife is the woodwind expert and gigs on everything except bassoon. Oh... and we both play really guitar in the most lame, hack sort of way.
Oh... and I play accordion a bit. There's one in the garage my grandma gave me.
Once you can play one wind instrument well, have good idea of the mechanics and physics of it as well as a good understanding of music theory and how it works, picking up the rest is easy because you have you foundation down. Any time I need to play something remotely seriously I literally just give myself about a week to play straight through a beginner book to familiarize myself with the fingerings and getting them somewhat automatic in my mind and then I can play at a reasonable level.
Things like accordion seem crazy to someone who doesn't get music (especially all of those tiny buttons), but if you realize how they are laid out it's easy. 4ths/5ths up and down and 1st inversion, bass, major, minor, dom7, dim7 diagonally. It's amazingly well designed to be playable in any key.
I also find that learning to play one instruments helps everything else so everything I learn gives me a better perspective for other stuff I play or makes me think about certain key facets of music from a different angle. It's great
@PG
The embouchure doesn't bother me, but I'm sloppy crossing the break. That's why I like sax better. It's honestly the easiest instrument to pick up and get decent at. It overblows at the octave (instead of the 12th like a clarinet) so the fingerings are the same above and below the register key (which is why they just call it an octave key on saxes). The range is fairly small so you can learn to play in all keys very quickly and the fingering patterns are very natural feeling unlike the upper register of clarinet where stuff gets really goofy.
@Ghandi
Yeah, we've got too many wine bottles all over the house. We try to do something decorative with them, but honestly, they are starting to take over parts of the kitchen. Beautiful as they are, we're gonna have to start tossing some.
Be sure to drink their contents first!
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Haha, no problems there. My wife is especially talented at taking care of this.
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