My chief area of interest is woodwinds and adjacent, but my instrumental history is roughly as follows:
accordion (YES! STOP LAUGHING!)
organ/electronic keyboards
alto saxophone (and the woodwinds enter my life)
alto clarinet
tenor saxophone
soprano saxophone
<insert many years as I concentrated on marketing>
dizi (transverse bamboo flute)
xun (a Chinese fipple-free endblown ocarina from the bowels of Hell)
hulusi (free-reed instrument typically constructed of bamboo and calabash, with drone pipes, though my first was wooden, not gourd)
xiao (end-blown bamboo flute)
guanzi (double-reed pipe from the bowels of Hell)
bawu (like a hulusi without a gourd or drones; can be transverse or endblown for slight flavour differences)
kalimba (ranging from 8-tine to 42-tine, I mostly use them to do meditative noodling around)
I also have this weird electronic musical egg that’s got five buttons used for actual sound triggering, but a full three octave range with those five buttons because of a nifty chording interface. It’s great, like the kalimba, for just meditative noodling around.
Generally the music I perform with these is folk or folk-informed, though I sometimes play along with songs in almost any style played on my computer speakers.
I didn’t know you were musical! What’s your jam?
My chief area of interest is woodwinds and adjacent, but my instrumental history is roughly as follows:
I also have this weird electronic musical egg that’s got five buttons used for actual sound triggering, but a full three octave range with those five buttons because of a nifty chording interface. It’s great, like the kalimba, for just meditative noodling around.
Generally the music I perform with these is folk or folk-informed, though I sometimes play along with songs in almost any style played on my computer speakers.
I think music is far better as a hobby. Make music, enjoy it, don’t try to make a living from it if you don’t have to.
Amen to that! (I’ve been a musician for 23 years now)
SometimesMost times I think that. Then after a particularly bad day at work I wonder “why didn’t I just FUCKING PLAY THE SAX?!”. (Or accordion.) 🤣Classic grass is greener.
Hey us Irish folks are totally up your alley when it comes to accordions. <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9a8pVGa1Mo&list=RDO9a8pVGa1Mo&start_radio=1