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Offline Sabre

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« Reply #30 on: May 05, 2004, 04:45:49 PM »
I've played a couple of instruments (brass), but not for some time.  However, I'm a pretty decent vocalist.
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« Reply #31 on: May 05, 2004, 07:02:01 PM »
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5 string Banjo, Classical Guitar, and Highland Bagpipes.

Bluegrass, Segovia, and piobrachead


woah! banjo and bagpipes are both really hard I heard.  And not at all alike.

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« Reply #32 on: May 05, 2004, 07:10:49 PM »
Banjo and Classical Guitar have some similarities...

Both require picking with fingers, two and a thumb for the banjo, three and a thumb for the guitar untill you bring in the pinky for a flamenco strum...

Bagpipes however, I almost break a vein every time I play.  Hope I don't have an aneurysm. (sp?)  

I think I need to figure out how to play with less pressure.  I'm in better shape than some other pipers I know, and they can play for an hour after I pass out.
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« Reply #33 on: May 05, 2004, 07:47:29 PM »
I played the Baritone and trombone all thru school, then had to turn in the instruments, never touched it since. I also played the doubled-belled uphonium... LOL only 3 on the east coast. It's like a baritone horn but has 2 bells, and a fourth Valve. The fourth valve changes the baritone from Bass cleft to treble cleff. Once in treble cleff, it's sounds like a trumpet with bass. One hard instrument to play Jumping from harmony to melody in 2 different ranges, all on the same sheet paper.

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I play bass guitar a little and I played bass, baritone, trombone and drums in "The World's Largest Non-Nuclear Coast Guard Band" as Sr. Chief King called it.