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garyFLR -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 1:22:49 PM)
I play Trumpet & Harmonica, a few trumpet players here, I've noticed, no harmonica players though, I thought it was a popular instrument in the USA.

kdsub -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 1:49:02 PM)
I played the drums and clarinet. I started in grade school and when I went to middle school and joined the band I was 8th chair out of 8...lol… I had not learned what the register key was for so could not play all the notes. I was so embarrassed I talk my parents into private lessons and went to 2nd chair…After that year I lost interest when I wanted play on the football team not the band. Butch

Powergamz1 -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 1:54:52 PM)
Guitars, octave mando, banjo, bass, basically anything with frets. Play on Beale Street, and blues clubs or festivals in about a 200 mile radius around Memphis.

garyFLR -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 2:26:48 PM)
That's cool, being a British Blueser, I don't have that pedigree.

Edwynn -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 4:00:00 PM)
A '74 Guild D-40, a '68 Gibson J-45, a '72 Guild 412 (monster 12 string, fabulous), A '68 Garcia classical guitar, a '98 Santa Cruz FS (most gorgeous sounding guitar I've ever had, and the others sounded really good). On the electric side, a '62 Stratocaster which was devalued by having a '69 Telecaster neck afixed to it, but which I got for a decent price because of that, and sold for a really good price once those original pick-ups became so valuable, and then a bonafide '65 Gretsch 6120, maroon, single cut-away. But I am also quite proud of the 'cheap' Univox violin bass I had in the stable at the time. The electrics were played through various and sundry amplifiers, but lastly through a '62 Fender Tremolux 35 watt amplifier. All gone now, all off to good homes. I could still get a couple, even half, of items back, if I wanted. But I don't want. It was a blast, glad for the experience, etc. But next I get back to music, it's only piano or accordion for me.

Kaliko -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 5:07:09 PM)
I grew up playing the piano, but it was never anything I took seriously. When I got married and moved out of my mother's house, I didn't have room to take my piano so she sold it. (I'm still a little bitter about that one.) I bought a piano ten years ago and picked it up again for a little bit, but again, I couldn't take it with me when I had to move. I've had a serious intent to buy a digital piano so I can play at all hours of the night and not disturb everyone. I hope to have one this year sometime. I've also messed around with the guitar here and there. But my dream? After the piano, I want a set of bongos.

Powergamz1 -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 6:10:34 PM)
Those old Guild 12 strings are cannons, I would have kept that one.

SatinWhip -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 8:53:52 PM)
I play guitar and bass. I have been playing for 36 years. I dabble in keyboards (Hammond organ) but very poorly. I enjoy singing but I am not much of a singer. I do have fun with my Digitech Vocalist Live. It's The Eagles in a foot pedal. I did the bar band thing off and on for about twenty years but retired from weekend warrior duty almost twenty years ago. These days I just jam around the house for my own enjoyment. I also build tube guitar amplifiers in my spare time. I finished a Marshall JCM 800 50 watt clone a few months ago that is so loud it will peel the paint right off the wall. If it's too loud you're just too damned old.

igor2003 -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:08:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hlen5 I forgot to mention I tried to teach myself the recorder ( a woodwind instrument ). I still have it, a book and a scale sheet, somewhere around here! Does anybody remember learning the tonette, prior to starting band? Yeppers...the whole 5th grade glass (it was a small school) learned the tonette! Still have it around here somewhere! Geez...I hate to think how long ago that was. I didn't take band.

igor2003 -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:09:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls Always gotta have dancing girls! Damn. NOW you tell me! I guess that is why I never got to be a good musician...never had any dancing girls!

Edwynn -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:23:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Powergamz1 Those old Guild 12 strings are cannons, I would have kept that one. My brother has the 412 now, even he having the Guild 212 I got for him years ago. He hogs things, including my old Tremolux amp. He also has a '68 Hofner violin bass, and a Martin VHS D28, 12 fret to the body. That guitar is solid. I also got him a nice piano, which he is still very happy with. This was back when I had money. It hurt me, a lot, to have to sell or long-term lease all those guitars, but I felt it was a waste to have $12,000 worth of guitars sitting around when I had no interest in playing in public. I went from being a player (a fairly decent player) to just a collector, and that eventually sunk in. I'd love to hear what you do on the mandolin, etc, to the crowd. As wonderful as my brother's Martin is, and as wonderful as my Santa Cruz was, when I had it, I was most blown away by a 1956 Gibson J-45 that I played at a guitar show that came through town about ten years ago. Completely different animal, and something lovely. Nothing at all to do sonically with the later J-45 I had. I didn't have the $800 on me at the time, but it was a complete steal at that price.

Toysinbabeland -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:28:52 PM)
Only the Skin flute. But I used to play the piano.

areuhim -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:34:57 PM)
Clarinet for me.

MistressDarkArt -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:51:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SatinWhip I finished a Marshall JCM 800 50 watt clone a few months ago that is so loud it will peel the paint right off the wall. If it's too loud you're just too damned old. Ala Spinal Tap: 'This one goes to 11' [8D]

Powergamz1 -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:54:23 PM)
2 weeks ago I went to a get-together in Memphis where Bobby Whitlock (one of the co-founders of Derek and the Dominos,) had an old Hammond B-3 with full Leslie cabinet just about to fly off the ground, an incredible sound. Never have had a Marshall, although my harp player uses a 50 watt combo on the rare occasions when he can turn it up enough to really growl. quote: ORIGINAL: SatinWhip I play guitar and bass. I have been playing for 36 years. I dabble in keyboards (Hammond organ) but very poorly. I enjoy singing but I am not much of a singer. I do have fun with my Digitech Vocalist Live. It's The Eagles in a foot pedal. I did the bar band thing off and on for about twenty years but retired from weekend warrior duty almost twenty years ago. These days I just jam around the house for my own enjoyment. I also build tube guitar amplifiers in my spare time. I finished a Marshall JCM 800 50 watt clone a few months ago that is so loud it will peel the paint right off the wall. If it's too loud you're just too damned old.

DaddySatyr -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/1/2013 9:55:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SatinWhip I finished a Marshall JCM 800 50 watt clone a few months ago that is so loud it will peel the paint right off the wall. If it's too loud you're just too damned old. I'm envious. I had to build my first electric guitar but even with my favorite uncle being a PhD in electrical engineering and armed with "The Guitar Handbook" by Ralph Denyer, I have never been able to build my own amplifier. Did you buy circuit boards or build them, yourself? Peace and comfort, Michael

Phoenixpower -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/2/2013 2:01:38 AM)
As a kid I used to sing a lot (including on ways to school and back and to the annoyance of my brother in the car) but stopped that at some point and never got back to it... I used to play the accordeon for 9 years of my life (also in their orchestra) and a lil bit over two years the piano on a school where music was a main subject (you had to take music exams to get into that school, had to take up instrument lessons there and had to be part of the chorus)... I also played for some months clarinet, tenor saxophone and guitar... Next year I want to purchase an electronic piano again as I miss that one a fair bit...

TNDommeK -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/2/2013 5:11:02 AM)
Piano (by reading notes or by ear), I can play the first few cords of Zombie by the Cranberries on guitar. I do sing though.

SatinWhip -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/2/2013 3:34:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr Did you buy circuit boards or build them, yourself? Mostly just point to point. My first build was a rebuild, actually. I bought a hacked up silverface Fender Vibro Champ on eBay. Under the guise of disconnecting the trem to achieve a little clean gain (which does work) they trashed it. They also put black grill cloth and really poorly done blonde tolex on it. I stripped the chassis and rebuilt it to spec. The only original parts left are the chassis, tag board, OT, PT and the rectifier socket. Ugly as hell but sounds great. My second amp was another eBay find. It started its life in 1962 as one of those kits (ala Heathkit) that were so popular in the sixties and seventies. It was marketed by HiFi. A 2 6V6 mono power amp that one might use with a turntable or such to listen to music. I stripped all the guts and rebuilt it into a Marshall Studio 15 clone. That one is point to point wired. When I received it it even had the original schematic, layout and instruction book. You could see where the builder checked off each step in pencil. The next was a Fender Deluxe head style knockoff by a company from Canada called Pine Electronics. They made "stencil" amps for other companies. Kinda the equivalent of the amps you'd find at Sears or Montgomery Ward back in the day. I stripped it and tried a Fenderish design but not liking that I redid it into another Studio 15 clone. That one is also point to point with a few terminal strips. Lastly is the little JCM 800. I had an old Park G10 solid state practice amp sitting around. Has the classic Marshall brass faceplate/black tolex and grill cosmetics. I removed the circuit board, pots, jacks and internal transformer (stripped it) and laid out a 50 watt tube amp inside. It's a snug fit with all those transformers. Had to cut holes for the tube sockets. Everything is so close together that very little actual wire is used. The component leads were long enough in most cases to assemble it in true point to point with a few terminal strips. It's a cool little amp. Looks like a $20 pawn shop practice amp until you drop the hammer. Almost like jamming a Dodge Challenger into a VW chassis. I have to use a THD Hot Plate with it. It's just too freaking loud once you get the power tubes working. Had to rig up a 9VDC fan to keep it cool. Without it it runs hotter than a jalapeño douche. As long as you stick to a single channel low or medium gain design building a tube amp is not terribly difficult.

MistressDarkArt -> RE: Who's A Musician Here? (6/2/2013 6:59:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SatinWhip runs hotter than a jalapeño douche. Hilarious! [sm=rofl.gif][sm=rofl.gif][sm=rofl.gif][sm=rofl.gif][sm=rofl.gif]

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