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MaineWriter:
I don't play an instrument, but in my fantasy life, I play the baritone saxophone. My grandmother taught piano and tried to teach me, but gave up, saying I was hopeless. Oh well. What about others? What instruments do you play--or wish you could play?

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Kelda:
Hi all:

Well, I play in my local amateur brass band - a la Brassed Off style (http://imdb.com/title/tt0115744/). No saxaphones or clarinets in this type of Brass Band!!!

I play a cornet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet) - which is like a trumpet and at the moment play principal solo cornet - mainly because noone else would take on that mantle!

I started playing cornet when I was 9. The whole class took a music test and the best 5 got the chance to play an instrument - I was one of them. It was one of those tests - is this sound higher or lower, is it louder of quieter than the last - but like an optician appointment but for your ears!

So I've been playing for 16 years. I really enjoy it and when I was 14 began playing in the band I'm still in today - Irvine and Dregjhorn Brass (this is our site but its still in construction http://idbrass.com/default.aspx )

For me playing in this band and being involved in the brass banding movement is a real social activity too - most of my good friends are or have been involved in the brass band scene. And I've grown up involved in it. Its where I learnt to drink, and its also where I made a wide variety of friends - both mya gae younger and older - the current oldest member of the band is 80!

Since I took this principal position on, I'd say my playing has impoved back to a standard I had when I was at school and was playing every day. I'd say my sight reading has vastly improved too!

This is the piece the band played on 10 March at the Scottish Championships. This is not us playing but this is what the piece sounded like. Its called Prelude and Jubilate and was arranged by Darrol Barry.

http://www.divshare.com/download/49746-0ba

part 1 of piece is above (although they should run into each other but thay have been saved on the official championship CD as 2 seperate tracks)

and part 2 is
http://www.divshare.com/download/49807-096

Kelda
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louisev:
this is a topic near and dear to my heart.  I started my professional singing career at the age of 5 in my local church as the youngest member of the choir, began music lessons and singing lessons at 6, and won my first state competition at 7 - how's that for young?  But the instrument was chosen for me.  Since my great grandfather and everyone else in the family seemed to have gone wrong on the piano, my mother selected the ACCORDION. Famous in Italy and the German speaking world but anathema to the English-speaking.

more later. back to class.

mvansand76:
I used to play the flute, but I don't anymore. I wish I could play the violin or piano. My boyfriend studied piano at a conservatory and he's very good. He once started playing the piano at the restaurant in the Marriott in London and everybody just looked at him play with open mouths! I was so proud of him!  :D I still get goose bumps thinking about that moment...

Scott6373:
Hobby?  Not anymore.  Passion?  Always.

I've compartmentalized certain aspects of music in my life.  I have my guily, for my own enjoyment, music, and there's the stuff I get paid to do.  Still, I won't sing at the drop of a hat.  Maybe because I have developed a finely tuned performing process, that an off the cuff concert makes me cringe, and when asked (at parties, etc), I politely decline.  I've often said that if anyone wants to see the real me, come and see me perform music that I love.  That's the only time that everything I am and the core of who I am is visible.

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