What Other Instrument Do You Play Best?

Tony Trout · Post by **Tony Trout** » 14 Feb 2007 2:22 pm

I voted "Other" because I play several different instruments...(and before anyone asks, the reason I'm here at the SGF is to learn more 'bout the pedal steel cuz I'd love to be able to afford one and learn to play)....

I play the following instruments:

Electric and acoustic guitars
Drums
Piano
Bass guitar
Slide guitar
Lap steel (I dabble in lap steel...I actually suck at it)

admin · Post by **b0b** » 15 Feb 2007 10:12 am

The results are not what I expected. I thought that more of us were sax or fiddle players.

I'm the marimba guy (if you hadn't guessed), but 5 years ago I would have said "bass".

Jonathan Shacklock · Post by **Jonathan Shacklock** » 15 Feb 2007 11:27 am

I blow a bit of blues harp. I logged it under Sax or Other Reed. Apparently they call the harmonica the "Georgia Saxophone" although I've never heard "them" actually say it. I prefer "Tin Sandwich".

KENNY KRUPNICK · Post by **KENNY KRUPNICK** » 16 Feb 2007 11:37 am

Tuba, Bass,Guitar,Fiddle,Dobro,and Slide Trombone.

Robert Jones · Post by **Robert Jones** » 16 Feb 2007 12:43 pm

I'm an old bass player from back in the mid 70's Wish I had started picking the steel that far back. I might be a little better at it today than I am.

James Marlowe · Post by **James Marlowe** » 16 Feb 2007 2:24 pm

I'm mostly comfortable with bass, electric or upright, but my favorite by far is psg!
jas.

Kevin Mincke · Post by **Kevin Mincke** » 16 Feb 2007 2:57 pm

What about the accordion..or is it accordian.

This is what I was "trained" in and played mandolin in H.S. and then picked up pedal steel & dobro shortly thereafter. I do play guitar (only instrument I can actually sing & play at the same time

) which really came much later though, only because I needed it for learning/writing songs back then.

Lyle Clary · Post by **Lyle Clary** » 16 Feb 2007 6:34 pm

A perfect place to ask if you all know what perfect pitch is?
Thats when you throw an accordian into a dumpster and break the neck of a banjo. Sorry, Kevin. I like your license plate.

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 17 Feb 2007 11:43 am

Is Nose Flute under "Other?"

Mark Lind-Hanson · Post by **Mark Lind-Hanson** » 17 Feb 2007 1:33 pm

I play guitar- lots better I think than I'll ever be with steel-
also bass, which I enjoy as much as guitar, but don't now own one, so it's nothign i practice-
Used to play banjo- that helped me alot when I took up steel-
I love all kinds of guitar music and while i am more a rock than a country person folk-rock pretty much vcovers the general "niche" of where I am at...

Michael Barone · Post by **Michael Barone** » 17 Feb 2007 7:41 pm

I voted keyboard. Most of my experience is B-3 with bass pedals & piano, playing weekends from the 70's to the 90's. Played some guitar with bass pedals also. Wore the same pair of giggin' shoes for about 18 years.

Mike

Tom Stolaski · Post by **Tom Stolaski** » 18 Feb 2007 9:51 am

Harp Zither

Emmett Roch · Post by **Emmett Roch** » 18 Feb 2007 6:23 pm

Mando & dobro.

Used to play some fiddle, can fill in on bass, can play guitar until my hands start hurting.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 18 Feb 2007 8:19 pm

I've been building and playing Board Zithers since I was a teenager. This is an Electric Hummel, which is part of the zither family. I built this one with changeable fingerboards, so that you can play what is essentially a diatonic instrument in various modes. By removing the fingerboard entirely you can play it as a lap steel. Interestingly, I read that one theory of the origin of the Hawaiian guitar was Hummels brought in from Germany and played with a bar. This sounds to me a lot more feasible than the other theories surrounding the guitar, as all zithers have always been played from above, like a lap steel.

Brian McGaughey · Post by **Brian McGaughey** » 18 Feb 2007 9:21 pm

I've played drums since High School, (ah, the 70s) and have done so in many full and part time groups over the years. I just started in on pedal steel last fall.

After rehearsing several times with our bands 6 string guitar player in secret "sattelite" rehearsals, I showed up to full rehearsal with PSG and amp in tow and no drum sticks. The band was very surprised, and liked my steel work!

Now I'm afraid we're going to have to find another drummer for the group. I told them I could introduce them to "Alesis"...

Michael Douchette · Post by **Michael Douchette** » 18 Feb 2007 9:58 pm

For those that don't already know, I've played harmonica for 30+ years... the combination is where my e-mail and general handle "Steelharp" comes from. Also dobro and acoustic guitar.

Lyle Clary · Post by **Lyle Clary** » 19 Feb 2007 3:32 pm

Allan, Your 12 string Hummel reminds me of the American mountain dulcimer which is said to have been developed from the German Sheitholt and or the Norwegian Langeleik.

Twayn Williams · Post by **Twayn Williams** » 19 Feb 2007 6:22 pm

Guitar is my main instrument for the past 27 years. I have a degree in Clasical Guitar performance, though I've pretty much dropped classical guitar in favor of the demon electricity.

Like all guitar players, I also play electric bass, and I even sound like a bass player when I do!

Next is general middle-eastern style hand percussion (dumbek, rique, frame drums, etc.)

My skill level on steel is lower than hand percussion, though that's rapidly changing.

I dabble on banjo, though oddly enough considering my classical background, I can't do Skruggs rolls worth a good goddamn.

I can play piano with either my left hand or my right hand, not both together.

I can play flute in the keys of C, G or D.

Basically, if it makes sound, I can coax some kind of music out of it, albeit at a primitive level.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 19 Feb 2007 6:31 pm

Lyle Clary wrote:Allan, Your 12 string Hummel reminds me of the American mountain dulcimer which is said to have been developed from the German Sheitholt and or the Norwegian Langeleik.

Yes, the instrument is known in various sizes and shapes all over Europe. The hour-glass shape is typical of the Swedish Hummel, which was the basis of the Mountain Dulcimer. Somewhere along the way the Appalachian version managed to get its strings reversed, so that the traditional Mountain dulcimer now has the high string nearest the player. No-one knows why, but it's suspected that someone copied a left-handed instrument and liked the way it sounded.

Ric Epperle · Post by **Ric Epperle** » 21 Feb 2007 4:36 am

Bass guitar, Drums, Sax, Piano and Keyboards, here...

Stephen Silver · Post by **Stephen Silver** » 21 Feb 2007 7:30 am

Though I consider pedal steel my primary instrument, I have or do play Electric Bass, Upright Bass, Guitar (electric and acoustic), Slide Guitar, Lap Steel, Dobro, Flute, Tenor Sax, French Horn, Baritone Horn, Trombone, Cello, Piano (14 years of lessons), Organ (I never have complained about hauling a PSG around after doing the B3 thing for several years).

SS

Ricky Thibodeaux · Post by **Ricky Thibodeaux** » 21 Feb 2007 11:36 am

Played drums for about 25 years

DALE WHITENER · Post by **DALE WHITENER** » 22 Feb 2007 4:16 am

Mandolin, dobro, guitar, bass, drums and bxxjo.

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 23 Feb 2007 2:16 pm

I checked the guitar box, although bass was a coin flip...as well as dobro, mando, uke, b**jo, a little drums and harp (mouth).

Don Discher · Post by **Don Discher** » 24 Feb 2007 10:26 am

With my band I play rythm,steel and fiddle and I play bass with two other bands.I play rythm,bass and fiddle better than steel....so far anyway.

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