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As a music lover, I have always envied the mad skills of the talented, even though I don't have the patience with myself necessary to be bad at a musical instrument until practice can make me good. The only instrument I was ever competent enough to play on stage was blues harmonica. What musical instruments can you play?

Deb57 8 Feb 8
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I cannot play any instrument because I have no aural skills, and my parents couldn’t afford lessons for me. But I do like classical and some other kinds of music. It is something that I don’t understand, but I like it because it touches my heart.
I want to learn to play the best beginner violin, and I hope that I will be able to play at least the simplest melodies there. I am rather old for that now (17), and I don’t think I will reach any heights now even if I start practicing every day. But I still want to try and to see what happens. It’s always better to try than not to try and regret.

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Hey, the harmonica is cool !

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Even though I no longer on stage (aka; praise/worship band) I truly miss singing/harmonizing and playing keyboard or piano. I don't read music...play by ear and using chords. I used to play guitar and flute but good ol' arthritis put an end to that. These days, I play for myself and am looking for others to jam with singing secular music.

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Guitar is my main instrument, and I know a few tunes on banjo and mandolin/fiddle.
I’ve got a concert zither that I’d like to try my hand at, once I’ve repaired it.
I’m also fooling about with a concertina.

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Who are your top 10 favorite harmonica players?
Mine are:
Sonny Terry
Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie McCoy
Alan Wilson
John Fogerty
Mick Jagger
Corky Siegal
Sonny Boy Williamson II
John Mayall
"Magic" Dick Wilson

Musselwhite tops my list, then Sonny Terry, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and John Mayall. Listening to Mayall at about age 13 is why I bought my first Hohner. It cost me all of $3,75, can you imagine?

@Deb57 I paid 3.75 for mine too!

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Violin, viola, cello; mandolin, mandola, mandocello A little guitar (mostly rhythm and a bit of flatpicking), tenor banjo and erhu

I've been studying the violin since I was 4. I'll be 57 in a couple months...53 years! Violin since I was 16, mandolin too. I took some guitar lessons in '83. The rest I've picked up along the way, including the Erhu while I lived in China.

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Harmonica. Since I was 14. Harmonicas sound awful, until you learn how to play them. So, I'd go up onto railroad tracks, late at night. Or climb up into a tree. When dogs started howling back at me, I knew I was getting good. Bathtubs, and restrooms offered great acoustics too.. There was a certain boy's room at school, that I'd go into when I was skipping a class, and practice my harmonics. Until one day, as I was sneaking back out, I got met with applause by a teacher, and a bunch of students from a class next to the boy's room. Turned out, they could hear me fine! I scurried off embarrassed as heck!

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I played the Viola (alto violin) in grade school and Junior High.
Haven't picked one up since.

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