I hope this is the right place! I was just wondering if anyone else on the forum played any instruments? I play the violin and I hope you do too
Regards
Phil

Not so sure playing is the correct term but for my 60th birthday I received a guitar.
I'd always wanted to play an instrument and I'm not sure why I didn't learn years ago when many of my friends learned the guitar.
I'm now having weekly lessons and enjoying it but not sure that I could say that I play it yet though although my guitar teacher says I'm doing fine.  It is harder than I thought it would be !
Better late than never.

Bass player here - Blues,Rock,Reggae

I play guitar, drums, bass and keyboard... in that order of ability... And by play guitar it seems to be more collect guitars...

Sounds like an NGF Band to me  And if you can blow a note or strum a string it counts as playing!

I have a slightly different approach, I have a Virtual Pipe Organ on my PC (a freebie - Grande Orgue) to "play" it I import a score to some Notation software, which among other things can generate a MIDI file which I can edit to set stops which will each select a rank of pipes to be used.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/files/Testing/

Those who can play a keyboard just need a MIDI output to the Software, not having played a piano since I was a kid this is as close as I can get. The G.O. software can cope with any sampled instrument not just organs, I can load it with samples of say flute and harpsichord, or brass or string instruments. Conversely I can load scores for other instruments and "play" them on the virtual organ.

I have a Fender Squire Strat I bought many years ago and the wife said you can cut that racket out so it's still in its case along with a  Marshal amp some women just do not get it lol.

Quote from: Geoff on January 21, 2016, 06:58:46 PM
I have a Fender Squire Strat I bought many years ago and the wife said you can cut that racket out so it's still in its case along with a  Marshal amp some women just do not get it lol.

Similar to you Geoff. I have a Gibson clone - very nice too and quite expensive - and a Marshall amp.
Have been known to play make a noise with this on occasions. My fingers are not so nimble now so the guitar stays in its case.

I was brought up in brass bands so I used to play the cornet, E-flat (tenor) horn, valve trombone and E-flat bass. I would love to play the slide trombone but can't find a decent one at auction at the moment. These days I only really play the harmonica and whistles - penny and low.

Jazz guitar, and baroque flute.

I've had a couple of Strats and a Telecaster. I then switched to bass and had a Hofner Longscale Verithin. I gave up playing after an accident with a lawn mower coming into very close proximity with my finger ends. Tony Iommi I aren't.

I have a brand new American Strat which I too, spend more time looking at rather than playing because SWMBO doesn't let me. However, Mrs Bealman is a piano teacher and an excellent piano player, as are all the Miss Bealmen. 

Hello - I used to play  Alto Saxophone  in a military band  and dance band but I don't play that now but I still play a church organ and electric  organ
Clive H

I used to play the violin. The school orchestra I was in, used to enter area competitions, and we always did very well.

I managed to keep the violin for a long time, until my brother in law managed to misplace it during a house move,

I more recently bought an electric violin, only to discover that my joints are no longer able to hold the violin and bow for very long, before extreme pain sets in. I know I should sell it, but I can be very stubborn.

Maybe, I should get a guitar instead, I have been known to pick out a recognisable tune, but no fancy playing, no chords...................

But then, I still think I will have similar problems as the violin, when I try to put it under my chin, to play.................

Quote from: Bealman on January 21, 2016, 07:51:09 PM
I have a brand new American Strat which I too, spend more time looking at rather than playing because SWMBO doesn't let me. However, Mrs Bealman is a piano teacher and an excellent piano player, as are all the Miss Bealmen. 

I had an American Strat in the 1990s but could never get on with the very sensitive tremelo bridge unit,i sold it & a few years later, i  bought a Mexican 1950`s reissue sunbust body & maple neck.Much better instrument!!.

                        Ray.