R&S regulars: Survey: What musical instruments can you play?

Question

When do you play or sing? What do you play or sing? Who do you play or sing with? How does it make you feel? Why do you love music?

Answer 1

What instruments can I play?: Guitar, Piano, Violin, Drums, Flute, Clarinet, Recorder(?).
When do I play?: Whenever I can.
What do I play?: Pop, rock, classical, folk.
Who with?: Usually on my own, but have a mate who wants to get a band going.
How do I feel?: I try to emmerse myself in the song and become the character, so it can be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.
Why do I love it?: I don't really know, I think any answer I gave would be inadequate, but I suppose the best I can do is because of the way it makes me feel.

Answer 2

I play violin, piano, flute, and drums.
I really like playing, struggle with stage fright, so I opted out of a "career". Music theory and music performance were a couple of my majors in college.

Now, I just have fun with it. I never want to be up on stage again, but I have had fun playing in a small church and now am considering playing a little for the church I now attend. I love the old hymns and some of the newer songs, and am most comfortable playing music for God.

I love music because it can be very expressive and creative.
Oh and I play a mean radio.

Answer 3

I play guitar and sing. I love the sound, and the way it gives my voice something to meld with. I play all kinds of music, and I play really well. I can play classical, jazz, country, rock, folk and blues.
As I grew up I studied with some fine players: Jose Feliciano was my first teacher. When people listen to my music, they know I love it, and they all say I sound great.

I am 58 years old and I so am obsolete.

Do you really love music? If you do, then when you are over the age of twenty five, be prepared to be ignored and ridiculed.

Only the young people count, and no one is young forever.

Goodbye my beloved civilization; you have been invaded by locusts and zombies. And you seem to embrace it.

This is the last post I will ever make on answers.

Answer 4

I play the piano and organ as often as possible. I've been playing since I was a small child. I can't carry a tune so I don't attempt singing, but I enjoy playing the classical pieces and ragtime. I play alone because I'm too self-conscious to have others join me, but still, it calms me, yet energizes me just the same. I guess it eliminates the stress so that I can focus on more positive things. Music frees my soul.

Answer 5

-I can play some 10 instruments a little bit, but none of them very well.
-I play only rarely, when I have time. If i took more time, i'd be better at all theinstruments. I usually sing in the car while driving.
-I play and sing strictly metal, but all genres of it. Sometimes if I'm really in the mood also classical.
-I used to be in different bands and choirs, but now I only sometimes sing with my darling.
-Elated.
-Because it's the most expressive, wild and irrational of all the arts, closest to real humans feelings.

Answer 6

I play harmonium (mini organ) Merdunga clay drum, car tells(hand symbols) Use to play flute. I play only devotional music (Kirtan, or Bhajana) and sometimes sing mundane songs to God. I love music. I love to hear all types of devotional music from all religions and nations. I especially like Traditional Indian Bhajans. In Bhagavad Gita it is said in the spiritual Kingdom every word is a song and every step is a dance. No wonder we love music and dance so much.

Answer 7

I can play alittle guitar and of course... the triangle (teehee)

I sing in 2 bands. One is our Church worship band, and one is an informal band that rocks on the last friday of every month.

I love singing (although I've had laryngitis for the last week). It's a gift I've been given and it's the way I love to worship.
I love music because I think, for humans, it's one of the most unique ways that we have to express ourselves

thank you

blessings :)

Answer 8

I play the radio and the cd player. Music has a physiological affect on the body and the brain. Listen to music that has hemisinc. Mozart, bach, beethoven were all members of secret schools that taught ancient wisdom. Hemisinc makes the brain balance the two frequencies. This causes the brainwaves to mimic the music. This is why classical music will make you more intellegent. It helps make the bridge bigger between the two hemispheres of the brain. Feel the music. Don't listen to music that doesn't have a pleasent message. Feel the energy in your body when you listen to fast music compared to slow music.

Answer 9

I'm an actor for kids, I used to have a show in which I sang and played the guitar.

I can't actually play guitar, but I sing so out of tune, that nobody hears the guitar anymore.

So, somehow you might say I play the guitar.

Answer 10

Guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, sax (alto, tenor) and clarinet. Some percussion.

I was a perfessional performer for 30 yrs. and now I have a home studio where I do my creating.

I embrace almost all musical genres; my favorites being blues and jazz.

Music always makes me feel good...sometimes sad. It depends upon the mood of the song.

I love music because it is part of my life. I live to create.