• ZDL@lazysoci.al
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      3 days ago

      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.