[Glice]

Originally Posted by pbradley

Most people I know picked up an instrument for school when they were a kid. I picked up percussion (then of course regretting later for something more interesting) and my brother played the violin. A friend of mine played and still plays the cello fairly well.

I played recorder and piano. I can't remember why, for some reason I wasn't allowed to learn instruments other than piano (which I grew to hate) at secondary school. I really wanted to play violin, but I think I might have offended the violin teacher in my school by being male (all of the violin students were female). Shame really, I could've saved myself a lot of hassle in my late-teens if I didn't have to teach myself to read music for instruments other than piano.

I really, really suck at piano now.

[copper]

i played a harmonica today and i will purchase one because its damn cool.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez to give him his full name!

I almost did but I thought it would be border-line pretentious under the circumstances..

[Derek]

Originally Posted by copper

i played a harmonica today and i will purchase one because its damn cool.

I have one.

Ehhh... they are amusing for about five minutes.

[Lurker]

And you aren't one for pretention.

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by Lurker

And you aren't one for pretention.

Yeah, I was going to go there..

[Derek]

It was a birthday present, I never went out and bought a harmonica.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by Derek

It was a birthday present, I never went out and bought a harmonica.

I'm not sure if you're replying to me but I was replying to SomePalsBeRisks.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Derek

I have one.

Ehhh... they are amusing for about five minutes.

thats not true, I used to play in this blues group with this dude who carried a set of like eight of those motherfuckers, and let me tell you, he was bad! I was lead guitar and never got one solo cuz this dude was so damn good I could not possibly contest, and it was quite the priviledge actually to accent his stuff with some leads. a lot of fun and energy.

 

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Lurker

I'm not sure if you're replying to me but I was replying to SomePalsBeRisks.

Oh.

And yeah, of course it can sound great if you are skilled at it but how many people who have harmonicas really go out of the way to get better at it?

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

thats ok, clarinet sucks,

thats not true, I used to play in this jazz group with this dude who carried a set of like one of those motherfuckers (that's all he needed), and let me tell you, he was bad! I mean good! I was tenor sax and never got one solo cuz this dude was so damn good I could not possibly contest, and it was quite the priviledge actually to accent his stuff with some leads. a lot of fun and energy.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by Derek

Oh.

Yeah I wasn't calling you pretentious.

[✌➬]

any sudgestions?

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by Lurker

Yeah I wasn't calling you pretentious.

Nor was I.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Lurker

thats not true, I used to play in this jazz group with this dude who carried a set of like one of those motherfuckers (that's all he needed), and let me tell you, he was bad! I mean good! I was tenor sax and never got one solo cuz this dude was so damn good I could not possibly contest, and it was quite the priviledge actually to accent his stuff with some leads. a lot of fun and energy.

dude, didn't you get that it was a joke from the beginning? though actually, pythagoras himself warned his followers not to play woodwind instruments, as he believed them to be of the devil.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by ✌➬

any sudgestions?

Hahaha! Now that's what I call cross forum contamination!

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

dude, didn't you get that it was a joke from the beginning? though actually, pythagoras himself warned his followers not to play woodwind instruments, as he believed them to be of the devil.

It depends where it began.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Lurker

It depends where it began.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

[Lurker]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

What? That was the joke? Are telling me God's good creation is a joke? Or have you completely gone mad?

[Glice]

Clarinet, as a reeded instrument, precedes harmonica.

Interestingly, while most instruments belong to a specific group (woodwind, brass, percussion etc) harmonica belongs to the group of instruments, largely unrelated, known as 'shit'.

*Edit - or, to give it its full name 'shit instruments that, no matter that there may be rare instances of them not sounding like shit, will always be shit'. In this group it is joined by the melodica.