Your Musical Instrument

[quietlylooking]

I begged for music lessons as a child, and played two instruments fairly well by the end of high school. I was competent but knew I didn’t have the talent or drive to pursue music professionally. I still play both instruments in a variety of community groups, and sometimes even get paid to do so. It’s a hobby that brings me joy.

I do a fair amount of writing in my day job. Writing is a bit like practicing music alone; I can become immersed in the activity, always trying to make it sound or read a little better.

 

[Rakishpaddy]

I like music and I like writting.

Thanks

R. Paddy

 

[pink_silk_glove]

P.S Please no more skin flute (or snake charmer) jokes. They're boring and you're only insulting yourselves.
Humourless bastard aren't I.

What about the upright organ?

 

[Rustyoznail]

I used to play the tenor sax, but I haven't blown the dust out of it for ages.

 

[subdudeme13]

What about the upright organ?

They used to make upright organs that had pedals on them that you pumped with your feet while youplayed. Not the kind of pedals that played notes but they actually were what pumped air into the organ. They were totally mechanical. My grandfather had one. I wonder if that is where I got my foot fetish

 

[onehitwanda]

What about the upright organ?

Tibetan nose flute?

 

[StillStunned]

Technically, then, a "skin flute" would actually be a "skin recorder" or "skin whistle", but neither captures the concept. "Skin clarinet" would be closer.

Or, if you believe the average Lit story, one of these:

 

[onehitwanda]

Or, if you believe the average Lit story, one of these:

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Or, in taboo -

"High on a hill with a lonely goat herd."

I am so sorry.

 

[StillStunned]

Or, in taboo -

"High on a hill with a lonely goat herd."

I am so sorry.

Psiren: "Four million years is a long time for a man with your sex drive."
Lister: "Four million years is a long time for an Albanian shepherd with a wool allergy!"

- Red Dwarf

 

[onehitwanda]

Psiren: "Four million years is a long time for a man with your sex drive."
Lister: "Four million years is a long time for an Albanian shepherd with a wool allergy!"

- Red Dwarf

Still a better love story than Twilight.

 

[StillStunned]

Still a better love story than Twilight.

Most love stories on Red Dwarf were. Including when the Cat meets the Pleasure Gelf.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Most love stories on Red Dwarf were. Including when the Cat meets the Pleasure Gelf.

"What did you see? What did you see?"

"Ahh, just a gorgeous slab of sexiness!"

"What did you see? What did you see?"

"My legs are still shakin'!"

"What did you see? What did you see?"

"Someone get me a brandy!"

 

[StillStunned]

"What did you see? What did you see?"

"Ahh, just a gorgeous slab of sexiness!"

"What did you see? What did you see?"

"My legs are still shakin'!"

"What did you see? What did you see?"

"Someone get me a brandy!"

And before that:

Cat: "I'm the object of my own desire?!"
Gelf-as-Cat: "Can you think of anyone more deserving?"

 

[SimonDoom]

Or, in taboo -

"High on a hill with a lonely goat herd."

I am so sorry.

Well, if the story is in Taboo, then it's "Goat Herding With Mom."

 

[RoperTrace]

If there's one talent I don't have that I wish I had, it's the ability to sing. I'm not terrible, but I'm not great and my range is limited. I could probably be trained with work to get in the back of a choir and sing with a limited mid-baritone range, but that's about it. Since I like playing guitar I'd love to be able to sing along with it, but I don't like hearing myself sing. I think I sound like a drunk guy at a bar trying to imitate Jim Morrison and doing it badly.

Not a bad description. I've often thought, when in my youth, if I could have been any rock star, it was Jim Morrison. Robert Palmer gets the nod since I'm older.

 

[yowser]

My voice has been compared to geese farts on a muggy day.

 

[nice90sguy]

In the 1980s I "played" and sang live in the Eurovision Song Contest ( details vague for obvious reasons). I didn't win, but it was the biggest gig I've ever done. Yamaha lent us two Yamaha DX7s, which weren't yet available to the public. They sounded incredible, but I stuck to Fender Rhodes after that until the Kurzweil K2500 came out.
Still play and sing every week at my local pub, paid in Macallans

 

[SimonDoom]

Not a bad description. I've often thought, when in my youth, if I could have been any rock star, it was Jim Morrison. Robert Palmer gets the nod since I'm older.

Even Palmer is a bit high pitch for me. When I started playing guitar in the 1970s, it seemed like all the rock bands had singers who sang at a high pitch -- think Led Zeppelin, Boston, Journey, Styx, Foreigner, Kansas, the Police. There was no way I could ever sing like that. I could play "Over the Hills and Far Away" or "More Than a Feeling" but never sing them. That was a nice thing about grunge in the 90s. Singers like Cobain and Vedder weren't singing at the high tenor pitch. But by that time I was playing mostly classical guitar so no singing was required.

 

[MillieDynamite]

According to Sting, men with baritone or bass voices have no business in Rock.

 

[SimonDoom]

According to Sting, men with baritone or bass voices have no business in Rock.

I wasn't aware that he said that. I have always been a fan and am chagrined to hear that!

 

[MillieDynamite]

It wasn't back in the day... it was in a recent interview. He also said singers shouldn't be in bands in the same interview. I'm sure the Police completely understood that and weren't offended a'tall.

 

[kinkincguy]

According to Sting, men with baritone or bass voices have no business in Rock.

He clearly never listened to Type O Negative

 

[MillieDynamite]

I didn't say he was right or that I agreed with him, just that he said it! It is perhaps possible that, as a rock star, he had too many free drugs, too much sex, and rock & roll. Maybe the blister on his thumb got infected, or that girl shook her ... in the camera, and he just got confused. Well, after all, that ain't working, that's the way to do it. Your drugs for nothing, and the chicks are free.

He clearly never listened to Type O Negative

Edit, yes, I miss quoted the song.

 

[RoperTrace]

What about the upright organ?

Is there any other kind?

 

[Qky75]

Is there any other kind?

The squeeze organ. (For the ambidextrous...gotta use fingers and wrists)

The mouth organ (makes noise when you blow it)

The electric organ (popular with the ladies)