I started by banging on chairs, pots and pans, etc, with drumsticks my grandfather bought me, at age seven. He saw I had something going on with rhythm. I took up trumpet at ten in school and couldn't play it to save my life. That got dropped. I finally started drum lessons at fourteen and never looked back. Bought a Teisco electric for $15 in 1966, a Melody Maker for $50 in 1972, and really started at the guitar at that point. I also emulated Keith Relf's harmonica playing at age fifteen.
Years later, I fooled around with bass, and also play the mountain dulcimer and Native American flute.
So...Drums, guitar, harp, bass, dulcimer and NA flute. I have a mandolin and tenor banjo also, but really can't play either one.
collin wrote:Guitar
Bass
Drums
Harmonica
Banjo
Trombone
Didjeridoo
Bagpipes (well, this and the Dijd were somewhat unsuccessful....I own them but can't circular breath yet).
Guitar-Organ (or Guitorgan)
Ukulele
Kazoo !
Some of my friends seem to think that I can play anything.............but I am not so sure. Violin is my Achilles heel and I have never tried bagpipes. Much like my rudimentary attempts at playing a violin, I bet I would make bagpipes into an instrument of torture as well.
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Acoustic and electric guitar, five string banjo, upright and electric bass, mandolin, uke, tiple, harmonica, and whatever else someone will pay me to play .