Picture Thread: Your Musical Instruments

[RetroLounge]

I found thee pics today of some of the guitars I've owned over the years.

Top Pic: Rick 360/12, Yamaha Acoustic/Electric and Black Les Paul Custom. Bottom pic: My matching 1972 Fender strat and tele, 1956 Les Paul TV Special, The Black LP, and a Rick 360/6.

The only one that I still own in the 1979 Black Les Paul Custom, which I bought new back in high school.

Post a picture of your musical instrument.



RL

[DemoTex]

1. F. Loree oboe

[trof]

2. M. Hohner Echo harp, C-G

Also have E-F and A-D.
You capo up, I can stay with you.
;-)

[tuvor]

3. Something old, something new.

Korg 707


Bhajis Loops software for PalmPilot.

[Splatter Phoenix]

4. Ocarina.

http://pictures.greatestjournal.com/userimg/5050199/523165

I am a NERD! bwahahahaa...

Yes, I can play it, no I'm not too good...I was never musically inclined. I can remember screaming that I wanted a drink when my grandparents forced me to play piano because they thought it was cute. I was like three or four and had no tolerance for their bullshit.

[sniffa]

5. here ya go - the skin fLute

:yoiks:

[tigereye]

6. don't have a scanner

and no recent pix of the actual drums... but these are pretty close.



Love those Rics, RL. Several of my old bandmates played both Ric bases and guitars.

[RetroLounge]

7. Nice Drums!

Lets Jam!

:hi:

RL

[tigereye]

11. wish we could

that would be cool! I talk to some of my former band cronies about starting a band of mature punks called "tired old parents" or something like that. ;)

I was trying to remember how long I have had those drums, I used to have a very simple silver - spangly set when I first started playing in bands. Seems like I have had the Pearl set for almost 20 years! Funny how time flies!


Somewhere I have an article about girls playing drums (previous conv. about your daughter getting a set), if I can find it, I'll pm it to you. :)

[RetroLounge]

28. Yeah, most of my old band mates have drifted away

Tired Old Parents indeed.

Would love to see the article.

RL

[libnnc]

8. 1996 Martin D-28

My baby...

[Redstone]

15. The D-28 is the quintessential steel-string acoustic guitar.

It's not fancy; it's not flashy; it's a Martin. The D-45 may look nicer, but it doesn't sound any better.

Great guitar you got there. Probably the best of all time.

Redstone

[libnnc]

20. She's been so good to me

I love her more than my partner (shhh...don't tell).

[Redstone]

22. It's not infidelity when it's a Martin.

That's one of those unwritten rules...

Redstone

[RevCheesehead]

9. Yes, I've actually played this instrument.

Duke Chapel Flentrop

[Redstone]

24. Whoa. Double whoa, in fact. Anyone who's played a pipe organ

has my eternal, undying respect. What a magnificent instrument.

Oh, yes.

Redstone

[GirlinContempt]

10. Sweetest. Instrument. Ever.

Took this pic just SECONDS ago

[stlsaxman]

12. stlsaxmans gear...

Left to right...

a piano, 1965 Fender Bronco, mackie HR626 near-field monitors, motu 828, mackie 1402 VLZ mixer, various pedals and my baby-

1935 Kohlert Tenor Saxophone made in Czechoslovakia. :loveya:



I've always fantasized that my sax played in some resistance jazz bands in some dingy bars during WWII... I'll just believe it, thanks very much!

[RetroLounge]

29. Oooh, I had a bronco like that, maybe a '68?

It was red, picked it up for $50 from a coworker.

My roommate bought it from me and ended up breaking the neck off.

RL

[stlsaxman]

30. yeah, i'm no guitar virtuoso (though i play one on TV), but as far as

writing and laying down basic tracks, it's hard to beat- and i beat the thing to death! it even stays relatively in tune! bought it for $150 about 10 years ago and it's held it's own under my concrete hands.

ouch! broke the neck? what a shame.

[RetroLounge]

31. Yeah, it kept going out of tune on stage

and in a drunken piss-off act of violence, he smashed it on the floor.

All the guys in the band signed it with black magic marker, dated it, and he hung it on his livingroom wall by the strings.

Still there, some 20 years later on his wall.

Sad...

RL

[stlsaxman]

34. But a fitting rock n roll death, IMHO...

The Bronco isn't suitable for stage work, unless modified bridge is used. but I can tune it between takes for studio work w/o frustration.

[Ptah]

13. From plenty-nine years ago:

[Redstone]

14. I had a few back, before I wasn't able to play anymore:

Redstone

[FizzFuzz]

16. hi Red---I like that banjo

:D

I'd love to post a pic but I'm having probs with photobucket and I don't know why.

Waahh

[Redstone]

17. Yeah, some dirtbag swiped that banjo text for the title of

a lame country song...ah, well, you can't copyright a phrase that short, so what the hell. I lived by that phrase for quite a while, and survived to tell about it.

(I played clawhammer banjo, by the way, not bluegrass, though I did learn a bit of Reno style. God damn, I miss being able to play...)

Redstone

[FizzFuzz]

19. Wow, goddammit, I wish you could still play too!

seriously, I wish I could hear you, Red.

Did you ever teach people in the past?

[Redstone]

21. Thank you for the compliment. No, I never did any teaching,

because I never took any lessons, and therefore couldn't figure out how to teach anyone....

Damn, you've got me reminiscing. I started out playing classical guitar, then attempted to learn Flamenco...an injury led to a loss of finger speed in my left hand, so that was the end of that. Farted around playing odds and ends of stuff, and somehow wound up in Houston (well, not somehow, actually it was chasing a girl halfway across the country), playing country music for a living for about a year and a half. Wrote and sold some songs, including two that ended up being available for theft on Napster, so I guess that's some measure of fame.

Got sick of Houston and moved back Northeast, to play bluegrass; got sick of dealing with having a band (it's like being a second-grade teacher), and went solo doing Irish music which is the most fun of all, because you play in bars and have audiences who are drinking and you can have lots of fun with them...

But all that's gone now, and damn, damn, DAMN do I miss it. I can't go anywhere where there's live acoustic music because it makes me fucking nuts with frustration.

End of whine. Thank you for listening, anyone who reads it.

Redstone

[FizzFuzz]

23. hell it must be rough....

I'm just trying to learn banjo--I've got a terrible time overcoming my resistance to practicing. I have a couple cool memories of playing harp --don't be impressed, it was a very small local open jam near our house, and that's how I learned to play. People actually let me up to jam! And I got better, enouch to have a couple very small-time memories myself. FUN!

And, I don't have a prob with you whining---I've done it myself from time to time (and feltkindof dorky afterwards, but ehh what the heck)

[Redstone]

25. Hey, like I tell my kids: Don't get hurt real badly when you're young,

because that makes it pretty much not worth getting older.

Keep up with the banjo...have you looked at Homespun Tapes (homespuntapes.com)? They're a good source of lessons on CD and DVD.

And always remember, you'll never get rich as a banjo player, but you'll always find some work if you're good.

Keep at it. Do it for me, if for no other reason. And send me a copy of your first CD.

Redstone

[FizzFuzz]

26. LOL!

but also, yes, I have some of my own heartbreaks too, different kind, but heartbreak sucks. Part of life, we all have to face one kind or another, but it can be awfully hard sometimes.

But I'm laughing about a first CD--OK you got it, I'll even send it free shipping! ;) But I did have a very cool experience once, with my harmonica. Seems I intimidated a guy (I hadn't seen him at the pub before. Its just a tiny little local place) who had been sitting at the bar, making a show of cleaning his harps before he got a turn at the open jam. HAHAH!!! I went up first (I'd been jamming there with the regulars for a few months), and after a few songs, I got offstage, and oopsies!! I saw him pack up and leave!!! :evilgrin: BWAAA!

There thanks for letting me tell my little story

[shugah]

18. here's mine:

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[Mr. McD]

27. Dunfion pipes

[Dukkha]

32. my axes

Main axe - 1970's reissue Fender Stratocaster with David Gilmour EMG pickup series - beautiful sound plays like a dream
Epiphone Les Paul - fun for more grind core stuff
Epiphone bass - rarely used

not pictured Roland XP-30 and D-50 Synthesizers
Akai S2000 sampler in rack fully loaded

[RetroLounge]

37. Another nice Strat!

:hi:

RL

[kid a]

33. My "Jeff Beck"Fender and Taylor 415ce . . . my sis's drum kit

[RetroLounge]

36. Lots of Strat Players here on DU

and that is a kick-ass drum kit...

RL

[Callalily]

35. Sadly, I never found

the time to take any musical lessons. The best I can come up with is this