Musically inclined.

John Sayers

Currently I am mastering plastic didgeridoo I also made from fat plastic 2 meters long

I once made a didge out of two pieces of plastic downpipe where one slid within the other so you could tune it. In recording the didge with a band it's often hard to get the damn things in tune but the variable length tuneable didge seemed to work.

here's a track I recorded where the didge was around 4 tones lower than the track - we slowed the multitrack recorder down to meet it then bought it all back up to speed. It took a lot of breath to play it that slow.

the artist is Troy Cassar Daley.

mp3 here

cheers
john

Jackson

I've played the piano by ear for years, since I was about 12. Picked up an acoustic guitar 5 years ago and love it. I have a good ear for music, but as for playing technically I'm pretty poor. Nevertheless I enjoy it even if no-one else does . My brother is a VERY good guitarist- he must've got our mother's musical genes, she was a singer. I sung in a university choir when I lived in Sweden a few years ago though I must confess it was mostly to meet girls . I can't read music so I had to listen to everyone else a couple of times and then sing by memory.

One of my lifetime ambitions is to learn the Great Highland bagpipes- I will get around to it one of these days.

DzineTech

Argh bag-pipes! There is a time and place for them. So annoying when I pass people busking with them as you walk by Waverley Market or down Sauchiehall Street. GRRR!

Alex Jenyon

I play the accordion, and have done for about 10 years. That probably puts me on a similar level to the Edinburgh bagpipers, though I don't tend to inflict my music on anyone who hasn't specifically requested it

AJ

Jackson

@dzinetech said:

Argh bag-pipes! There is a time and place for them. So annoying when I pass people busking with them as you walk by Waverley Market or down Sauchiehall Street. GRRR!

haha, I agree! The worst thing is how bloody bad some of these street pipers are- it's mean-spirited I know, but there's a blind piper in Edinburgh- his pipes are never in tune. I often think how irritated I would be if I worked in shops near these guys. As for the "Inca" pan pipes bands, don't even get me started. How come they always have thousands of pounds worth of studio equipment?

Still, having lived away from Scotland and returning I do find the pipes very evocative.

boofredlay

I actually bought a Bagpipe chanter and tried to learn to play. I quickly learned that I did not have the patience for it. Plus, playing trumpet all my life, anything past 3 fingers (occasionally 4 on my picc)... I just cannot do it.

As for the accordian, I have a special place in my... well I cannot say heart. My best friend's father (full blooded Italian) plays. When we were growing up he would get it out and play all the time. Especially if I spent the night in grade school, he would walk around the house at 6AM playing.

Krisidious

my mother, being the wonderful artist she is, is also a muscian.

here are a few of here songs...

she plays a 1951 Martin 00-18 and the piano

this is a story about a friend of my step dad who wanted to go to Viet Nam but was turned down, he died in a drug deal gone bad... he spray painted on a WWII memorial... "I love Stacy - C.H. Jones"

http://www.aboveallhouseplans.com/BrendaRand/Brenda%20Rand%20-%20CH%20Jones.mp3

and here is another song...

"are you there"

http://www.aboveallhouseplans.com/BrendaRand/Brenda%20Rand%20-%20are%20you%20there.mp3

bryan

I play a couple of instruments.

In College before I transfered into design I was a Music Performance Major - Concert & Church Pipe Organ (for Cathedrals and such). I had meant to get back into playing but only just started playing church services again after 25 years . Where does the time go?

I also play 12 string acoustic, banjo and am now learning Mandolin.

Alan Fraser

Acoustic guitar and a mean blues harp.

boofredlay

Try playing these