The latest in my line of off topic new gear acquisitions. It's a buffet B12, a low end student model, but I'm quite pleased with the sound it makes when being played by someone who knows what they're doing.
The amount of effort it takes me to play one decent sounding note on this contraption compared to on guitar is pretty daunting but I'm hoping it will help improve my sense of melody and learn to do more with less notes.
any other horn blowers around here?
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Post by: TheyCallMeVolume on June 12, 2012, 04:18:56 AM
Learned Recorder in grade school and hated it. But good luck with it! Congrats
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Post by: Lezard on June 12, 2012, 09:00:59 AM
haha thanks. I wasn't too fond of that myself now that you mention it.
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Post by: 38thBeatle on June 12, 2012, 09:56:37 PM
Cool. My son has opted to learn flute in a house full of guitars. I had a go but couldn't get a decent note- he on the other hand is making rapid progress. I am sure it will benefit your guitar playing in some as yet undefined way.
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Post by: Fourth Feline on June 13, 2012, 01:27:19 PM
I don't play the Clarinet, but I gather you are in good company - as I once read that B.B.King had chosen to learn the Clarinet as his second instrument, for working melodic ideas out - and enjoying a change of tone / feel for his long hours in hotel rooms.
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Post by: FredD on June 14, 2012, 07:35:59 PM
Had a clarinet, and my first 'formal' music training on it, from 1961 to 1964. Havn't blown anything since about 1968, when I tried an alto sax for a short time.
However I was given my first guitar in 1959, a Rosetti single cutaway Jazz box, with a single pickup screwed to the neck. Shortly after got given Bert Weedons' 'Play in a Day' first edition ! :)
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Post by: FernandoDuarte on June 16, 2012, 05:00:57 AM
I like it, listened to some movies at youtube and discover how it really sounded... Too many instruments on classical music, never know which one is playing... Very cool sound!
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Post by: Andrew W on June 16, 2012, 10:54:56 AM
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Post by: Lezard on June 16, 2012, 03:01:40 PM
@Andrew W , Don't quite have those chops yet...maybe in a few weeks :D
@FernandoDuarte ,It's easier to hear in a jazz context, This is the kind of stuff I hope to be doing in a few years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-MWLJvGvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4H7M2YFK0s
@FredD So you got off to a pretty good start, gear-wise. How did playing the sax go? I've been considering that as well.
@Fourth Feline Now that I would like to hear, but alas, google has failed me.
@38thBeatle Good for him.The ladies love a flautist.
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Post by: HTH AMPS on June 16, 2012, 11:59:09 PM
I've played trumpet and tuba in my past (not very well I might add), and I'm happy to leave 'em in the past. My parents said they were too loud when I tried to practice - then they agreed to let me get an electric guitar, ha ha (big mistake) :lol:
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Post by: FredD on June 17, 2012, 08:05:57 PM
Alto was fun, but I had better lungs then ! By the time the Alto came along, I was well into Jazz guitar and had 'progressed' to a Gibson 335. Then the Blues 'bit' me and I was finding that I was enjoying expressing my young spotty self, more with the guitar than the sax. So the Alto was sold to pay for 'better' amplification for the 335. Seems like only yesterday 8)