What instruments do you play?

use to play clarinet pretty well, but never really enjoyed it. Think the whole being in a high school band and having to play for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd chair just took out the fun for me.

Also, play the piano.

 

I started out playing piano, for 4 years.

Had to sit at the end of the line in band, huh?

 

I always played a unique instrument in HS so I just roamed where I wanted. Never had to try out for nothing, never really even bothered practicing the given music.

 

To the musicians in the house...

1. Name your instrument
2. Give a description
3. What's your experience
4. Do you have a band?
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1. Drums
2. 7 pc Rogers XP8 maple kit -white (Brass Dynasonic snare, stainless piccolo snare)
3x14 piccolo
5 1/2 snare
12x9 tom
13x10 tom
16x15 floor tom
16x16 floor tom
22x16 kick
cymbals - All Zildjian
8" A splash
10" A splash
12" mini china
14" A Custom Crash
14" K thin crash
16" A medium crash
18" A medium crash
20" K Custom medium ride
14" K Mastersound hi hats
DW 5000 double pedal and hi hat stand

3. Started playing at 25. Yep, that's right...25. Going on 10 years now.

4. Sometimes band named Swamp Chicken - we play greasy funk/rock with an edge. Bass player thinks he's Les Claypool; Guitar player #1 thinks he's Stevie Ray Vaughan; Guitar player #2 thinks he's Jerry G; sax player thinks he's Skerik

Will post a pic of my babies tomorrow.

 

Hondo H-28HS guitar, don't know how old. At least 18 years old, 'cause that's how long ago I got it.

Martin D-3532 split back, 1987.

Takamine G335 12-string, don't know how old

Been playing since I got the Hondo back in '84. No band, but I've done my share of weddings and the like. My father, mother, and I formed a folk trio for a while.

Somewhere upstairs I got a Strad trumpet I used to play in college. Got no chops now.

 

Re: To the musicians in the house...

1. Sax - most well versed in baritone, best tone on tenor, most flexible on soprano. Don't particularly like much that I do on alto.

2.
*1919 Buescher silver plate baritone sax
Mouthpiece assortment - 3* Otto Link "Master Link" (hand reworked by Bob Carpenter of Seattle, gold plated), Runyon Custom (in blue, reworked by Jon Van Wie of New York), Lawton BB* .120 handmade sterling silver.

1968 Buffet Super Dynaction tenor with Berg Larsen .120/1/M

1972 King Zephyr Alto, Runyon Custom or Meyer 5* (reworked by Jon Van Wie, NY)

1969 Weltklang silver plate soprano sax, Yamaha C* mouthpiece

3. Baroque experience for five years, starting in high school and resuming briefly a few months ago
Jazz experience of roughly a year, off and on work
Funk experience for seven years with local, regional, touring bands
concert experience for eleven years

4. one funk band, one rock band, a baroque ensemble on seemingly permanent leave.

My boy played a DW set, in the purple/gold scale flake, now he plays Pork Pie. Real tight.

 

Here's my babies:

 

And another:

 

and this one:
(notice the 2nd floor tom - there's an air tube sticking out of the side. When you blow in the tube, you change the pitch of the drum a'la Stanton Moore from Galactic)

 

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