I play piano...though not well. But since I type a lot, and play piano whenever I'm bored, my fingers get sore very easily...

Cello for 6 years now

I've played clarinet for.....seven years now, and sax for four years. I used to play piano, but then my teacher moved away, adn I never really liked it that much anyway, so I just quit. Sometimes I wish I hadn't, but I don't really want to pick it up again (mostly because I don't want to re-learn bass clef).

I had been learning piano from my grandmother.... I didn't want to, though, so I never practiced, and I lost all interest that I may have had after a few months.

Also, something I WANTED to do (and did do) was to have guitar lessons from the guitar teacher at the music shop my dad owned. But the shop wasn't doing well and went out of business before I could learn too much.

That's too bad.

I finally printed out the sheet music for my favorite songs today, because my parents were bugging me about learning piano "the right way." (I'd been learning by several free online video tutorials, but I guess I'll go back to teaching myself to read music...) The online things were more fun, though. And much easier.

I played the piano for...about six years, but I had to stop because I had too many things in my schedule. I have now played the flute for eight years. For one year I was in the jazz band, and for three and counting I was in the marching band.

I play Bassoon! Woohoo!

In school, I play the Bass Clairnet but I can also play the Flute. I wont say how long I have been playing, it is kind of embarrsing. My band went to nationals in Chicago in early May and we won first place. I also got a excepted into Blue Lake International for the clairnet but couldn't go becuase I couldn't pay for it. In three days, I'm going to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp for my second year and on the Bass Clairnet.
Sorry, that was a bit off topic.

I have played piano, flute, and viola. Currently I am singing , in an opera.

I think I'm actually starting to get decent at piano again. I quit and then started jazz piano, then I quit that and went back to classical (with large gaps between each of these events) and I'm starting to play some really cool stuff. Inventions are insane!! I'm playing a rag right now that's extremely hard, and Tsaichovsky. I don't know if I spelled that right. But I got a new piano this year. It's a baby grand and I adore it. It's my baby, and it sounds about a million times better than my old piano which was my grandma's.

Thats really cool, Cress! Are you going to go professinal?

Cress: Which inventions? I had to do Bach's 14th-- it was quite, quite hard.

Which rags, too? I'm just finishing up Golliwogg's Cakewalk by Debussy. Not quite a rag, but not quite not a rag haha

ooh Tchaikovsky!

Gah! You have a baby grand!! *drools* I wiiish


Daylily: Opera, eh? Vair vair naaice! Which one?

I'm definitely not going professional, I'm nowhere near good enough, and I'm too old to get good enough at this point. I wish I was, but it takes like 5 hours a day of practicing. It's insane.

I played Bach's 13th. The 2 part invention that is, I haven't even looked at any 3 parts yet. At first it was super, super hard, but once I started to understand how the hands fit together it got MUCH easier. Then the hard part was getting the phrasing to the satisfaction of my teacher who can be VERY demanding. He's cool though. He has a very thick Russian accent. I'll play something for him and he'll kind of go "Well, it was better, but..." and then rip it apart. Kindly, of course, but rip it apart nonetheless.

I'm playing this rag called Graceful Ghost. It's by a modern composer, I don't remember his name at the moment. Very hard. I just finished learning it all, and now my teacher keeps saying "It doesn't sound very ghosty. We'll work on sound later" because I'm still trying to get confident on the notes. It's especially funny because he doesn't say the g in ghost and it sounds like "hosty". Sometimes I get confused.

First it was a Greek myth
Then it was an english Opera by Handle
Now, I am stuck with being in it.

The word nervous doesnt cover any of the angles.

I don't play - I learned violin for a couple of years, but once my shoulder started to dislocate, that put paid to that. I do sing, though - mezzo-soprano performing contralto in a chamber choir. It's challenging, and also madly fun - you never heard so much innuendo as we come out with in practice! *grin*

I don't just play an one I invented one its called Ball bearings in the washing machine

I play piano... next year I can claim that I've been playing a decade!
Same, not crazy good, but I can get to the point where my fingers are liquid and feel like they can do anything--lovely state. I'm also cramming for three piano tests this coming December (Eeek!)

I played piano for two years and got nearly no where with it, the violin for a year and a half and got somewhere (a single piece by Bach), and am now in the process of learning the viola for 6th grade band and orchestra.

Oh! I'm just learning to play the guitar. I'm teaching myself actually. Just playing some songs from Sara Bareilles at the moment. I'm also teaching myself to play her songs on the piano as well. It's some hard stuff... Haha.

I'm writing a song on the guitar... I just wish I can record it! Haha.

Funny that this topic was at the top of the list when I logged in today...I'm actually leaving on Tuesday to go to a Conservatory to begin an undergrad performance degree in viola. I've been playing for about six years now, and before that I played violin for seven years. Wooo Suzuki method! And I agree with others-- violin/viola teachers can be hard and scary and sometimes it does feel like they're "bossing", but I can say that my old violin teacher (with whom I am still very close--he's like a grandfather to me) never picked up his instrument during a lesson but he literally turned my playing around and brought me to where I am today, about to become a professional. Of course, on the other hand my viola teacher often would play with me during lessons. So really it's not the style but the quality of the instructor.