• ZDL@lazysoci.al
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        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.