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.
My chief area of interest is woodwinds and adjacent, but my instrumental history is roughly as follows:
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.
I think music is far better as a hobby. Make music, enjoy it, don’t try to make a living from it if you don’t have to.
Amen to that! (I’ve been a musician for 23 years now)
SometimesMost times I think that. Then after a particularly bad day at work I wonder “why didn’t I just FUCKING PLAY THE SAX?!”. (Or accordion.) 🤣Classic grass is greener.
Hey us Irish folks are totally up your alley when it comes to accordions. <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9a8pVGa1Mo&list=RDO9a8pVGa1Mo&start_radio=1