What is Your Favorite Musical Instrument to Listen to And/Or Play?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I'm so flipping bored, y'all...How about another music-related poll? I want to know what your favorite, favorite instrument to listen to and/or play is. I just put some common instruments down, so if yours isn't listed, well, that's what the "Other" option is for. :D :P :evilgrin:

For me, piano takes the cake hands down. Love to play it, love to listen to it. It's closely followed by guitar (though I don't play--:D), clarinet, and saxophone.

:D

Thanks, y'all--

WIMR

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Guitar

I might be biased because I've been playing it for years (not very well). But I just think it's such a versatile instrument because it can be equally beautiful in both rock, jazz and classical music.

Piano would be a close second. I always wanted to learn how to play but my hands are just too stubby to be any good at it

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Yeah, like I said, I love guitar.

It really is a cool instrument, especially in jazz. ;)

Someday I hope to learn it, but I have to get through piano first. (At least, that's what the 'rents say, and at this stage, my life is in their hands..... x() Hell, I just want to play basically any instrument. :D

WIMR

[DanCa]

2. Blues Harp (listen and play)

I love my harmonica. :D I take it everywhere I go.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. That is SO COOL, Dan!

:D :D Not too often that you hear about that. :D

WIMR

[DanCa]

11. Thanks I took it up because my hands wont let me play guitar.

Oh hey do you have any suggestions on books that teach you how to read music.? Just wondering.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. No, sorry....

I learned to read music at my grandmother's knees. :D I know there are books out there, but I can't think of any off the top of my head...

Sorry I can't be of more help! Maybe the Musicians' Group can, though that forum doesn't move very quickly at all.... x( Or maybe an Amazon search will yield something.....

:D

[FuzzySlippers]

5. To listen to.....the violin.

To play.....I guess it would have to be the flute,'cuz it's the only thing I can play.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Violin is really pretty, of course.

:D

I'm not a wild flute fan, but that can sound cool, as well, in the right hands.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. For listening, I like the violin, too

For me, no other instrument can convey the depth and range of emotion as the violin. Meditation, by the French composer Massenet is one of the most breathtaking pieces of violin music ever written. I love the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin, the Chaconne being an extremely powerful piece and when I first heard it, I couldn't believe it was just one violin playing all of that.

I like to play jazz guitar, fingerstyle on nylon strings. It's my main hobby.

[RandomKoolzip]

6. I love playing drums. I like to listen to piano and violin the most.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. I really suck at drums.

:D :D

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Of the instruments I play, I'm best at bass.

But I like playing drums the most.

I'm lucky I have a violin player in my band...and no instrument moves me more than piano.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. Awesome drum set, there.

:D I always thought it would be cool to be a talented drummer.

I love playing piano.... I'm good at clarinet, too, and I'm learning sax, but neither sax nor clarinet makes me feel high like piano does. And I've been playing piano for the least amount of time.

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Awesome. Thanks!

I never learned piano bacuse I didn't want to remove the "aura" around it. It's hard to explain; once I learned how to play the drums, the mystique around it was removed and I was less and less impressed by other drummers. The same with guiatr: once I learned how to play, I found fewer and fewer players who could move me. It's like learning the secrets of a good magician; once you know how he levitates his assistant, it's difficult to remain awed by it.

That's why I never learned piano; somethings I want to remain mysterious so that I can continue being moved by them.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. That's cool, and I think that makes sense.

But for me....What can I say? I just HAVE to play the piano. Only as a hobby, true, but I just HAVE to. It's a weird compulsion. And the more I learn about it, the more I go, "Wow. How the HELL do people DO that?" It certainly makes me appreciate the sheer labor--of love, admittedly, but still labor--that professional pianists pour into their work.

[bikebloke]

7. iPod

:D

Blimey. What I'll post to reach the Mille High Club.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. ...

:rofl:

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Musical Saw

The most underrated musical instrument that I can think of. It's anything but a novelty sound in the hands of an accomplished musician.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

24. I would think so.

:D

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. Alphorn! J/K. Guitar with Keyboards a close second.

:puffpiece: I use that smilie since it gets "no respect".

[WritingIsMyReligion]

25. Haha CG!

:D :D Alphorn! Funny! :D :D

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

17. acoustic guitar, electric bass, bodhran

guitar when by myself. bass, bodhran with other people/playing along with recordings.
to listen to: a toss-up between guitar, fiddle, and uillean pipes, or hurdy-gurdy(I think. I don't have any recordings of solo hurdy-gurdy)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

26. Very electic, but cool.

:thumbsup:

[Shine]

18. Drummer, here.

Congas, in particular. I love all kinds of African music, so anything with drums and/or percussion makes me happy. :bounce:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. Cool!

:bounce:

:D :D

[lpbk2713]

20. Acoustic / Flamenco Guitar

Olé

[WritingIsMyReligion]

28. Ole, Ole!

:D ;)

[bertha katzenengel]

22. to play - acoutsic guitar. to listen - if considered a single intsrument:

chorus.

if not: acoustic guitar

[WritingIsMyReligion]

29. I wish I could play guitar.

'Twould be fun, I think.

;)

[Metta]

30. Theorbo, tiple or Armenian oboe.

Wonderful, soulful stuff. :)

[AKPacker]

31. Give me a soulful

clarinet any day of the week. The range of emotion it covers can send shivers up and down my spine!

:hi:

[Rowdyboy]

32. Harpsicord.....

Listen to, not play

[Aristus]

33. I'm partial to the krummhorn.

B-)

[fortyfeetunder]

34. The harp

Something about the sound is relaxing and soothing. Especially when the musician plays the low notes. I have a soft spot for bass lines.

[Chemical Bill]

35. Sax and violins.

Just kidding, give me a strat anyday. I do like flute and fiddle too.

Bill

[Magrittes Pipe]

36. The Jew's harp.

[B3Nut]

37. Hammond organ

I also play bass and guitar, and just enough mandolin to be dangerous/annoying...but when I sit down at one of my Hammonds all is right with the world. Nothing like that rich growl through the Leslie rotary speaker...rockin'!

Todd in Beerbratistan...'63 B-3, '52 B-2, '67 M-102, '63 L-100

[Ron Green]

38. Don't lump the bass in with the guitar;

at least the acoustic bass, the string bass, the real thing. It's a completely different animal, and for me works best with a piano and a couple of good horn players.