What instruments do you play?

[HollyElise]

I play a little accoustic guitar and i used to play alto, soprano, tenor, and sopranino recorders.

I was just wondering what other people play and what kind of music they play...

[ScabbyDouglas]

I play accoustic guitar (adequate for my purposes)
also: mandolin (OK)
and tenor mandola (also OK)
and I sing (a bit).

It's mostly Scottish material - some more recent compositions, some of my own stuff, and some traditional.

Simon T - who posted earlier on in this forum about the Scottish Trad Music Awards - is probably *the* best concertina player in Scotland.

[Polwarth]

Originally posted by ScabbyDouglas
I play accoustic guitar (adequate for my purposes)
also: mandolin (OK)
and tenor mandola (also OK)
and I sing (a bit).

And write quite a bit (and very well!)

Did you mean to miss the ocarina off that list, Scabs?

[ScabbyDouglas]

The ocarina (as is well known) is not a musical instrument in any normal definition of the term. Unless you were to include the nail-on-the-blackboard, and also metal-spoon-scraping-the-inside-of-the-pot as musical instruments.
And I don't.


The ocarina is more properly, an intrument of torture, and is currently banned under the Geneva Convention in 46 nations world wide. It is on a list of prohibited items, along with electric cattle prods, pliers, and crocodile clips. The main distinction between the ocarina and these other items is that they have alternative, non-torture uses. The ocarina, on the other hand, can only be used to inflict suffering.

[HollyElise]

Hey! I had a devil of a time looking up what you were talking about!

http://www.hindocarina.com/?source=Overture

How unusual!

When i was in high school i made a similar instrument out of ceramics. I made it in the shape of a Robin. You blew into the tail, used the holes on the wings to adjust the sounds, and the music came out of the open Robin's beak! I wish i still had that. I think i just threw it out one day. How silly of me! I'd completely forgotten about it until i looked up the Oscarina.

The website i listed says the Oscarina has a beautiful sound.

[ScabbyDouglas]

You made one?
You *made* one?

That's just sick.


Get professional help..

[HollyElise]

hahahahahahaha!

well, i got rid of the evidence. And i was young and naive at the time... I had no idea what i was making! I'd never heard of ocarinas before... HONEST OFFICER! What on earth possessed me?