I'm just curious. Seems like a lot of musicians play more then one instrument.

I play Latin style percussion, used to play piano, trumpet and guitar.

I'm guessing with me it would be quite a stretch to refer to myself as a musician, hence; I only play the Native American "style of" Flute....

Simple minds are easily amused....

A one instrument wonder (many do wonder), Tenzin

I've been known to whistle from time to time.

I play the Elec and Stand-up Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Mountain Dulcimer, Bowed Psaltry, Harmonica, NA (style) F, Drums, (Static on the Radio), If it qualifies the...Rain Stick. I Love to glorify the Creator with music.

Two Feathers

Nothing wrong with that tenzin.

Personally, I can play several instruments, but I'm a novice at most of them. I discovered my interest in music last December, and since then I've tried one instrument after the other in my search for my "main" instrument. Haven't found it yet, but I'm getting very close I think.

So far, the only instruments I play well enough to be worth mentioning would be: Native American Flute, Clarinet, Recorder, Pennywhistle, and Strumstick. I still want to try Bamboo Flute, Low Whistles, and Panflutes. Pretty sure on of those will end up being my main deal.

I have a fair number of things to play with, to include drums, shakers, rattles, guidos, rainsticks, and guitar. I do not claim to play any of them. I just play with them. I do hope to return to guitar lessons, at some point in time, after a rather lengthy hiatus.

Other instruments I dabble in include Native American drum, rattle, shaker, talking drum, ashiko drum, tongue drum, freenotes, wooden xylophone, singing bowl and Chinese gong.

Dave

I have a bunch of instruments. A few of them actually get played - or played with!

Piano, guitar, harmonica, ocarina, kalimba, harp, NAF, Anasazi, transverse flute, drum, violin, tambourine, kazoo, rattle, Viking panpipes, bamboo sax ... I think that's it.

I played a stand up double bass until High School, but after that nothing until last year when I found a flute.
I never really thought of myself as being musical.
In fact I find it quite amusing when someone hears me playing a flute and says they didn't know I was a musician...
well, truth is neither did I...

Uh oh ... freenotes. Do they sould like a xylophone or marimba? Man, I've been wanting something like that! I shouldn't have looked!!

How hard are they to play?

I love my freenotes! I'd say the sound is closer to a xylophone than a marimba. I have the CMajor Wing and you can hear various sound samples on that page. If you go the the freenotes website and click on Wing, Spinner, Gamelan and Outdoor Instruments, there are sound samples of all the different instruments. I find it very easy and soothing to play the freenotes, but, then again, I don't play any recognizable songs. All the notes sound beautiful in any combination.

Dave

we have similar instrument taste, I have 9 of these and I'm eyeing some viking panpipes....

i've been known to play some guitar, synths and a wee bit of bass.

Ive had a few drums for years and now working with keyboards as well. The more I get into the naf the more I want to learn music in general. Im enjoying the ride....but it takes a major committment of time......and the learning is slow.

NAF, shakuhachi, bansuri, quena, pennywhistle/low whistle, didgeridoo, guitar, udu, rattles, crystal singing bowl--none of them well. Getting pretty decent on the NAF, though, good enough to be invited to play two gigs in the next couple weeks.

Classical transverse flute in C (for 40 years! ) and piccolo. NAF for 2 years. Pueblo style flutes since June 2009. Shakuhachi only well enough to play it as if it were NAF; I don't know how to do the meri and other special effects and have not memorized the Ro Ri notes, etc. Irish Pennywhistle, only well enough to distract our parrot when she is being impolite.

Freenotes is closest to gamalyn.

I also play piano and know a few chords on a guitar.
dd

NAF, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Trumpet.. although I don't play piano or trumpet often..

Jeff are you in Turkey? Hmmmm I would've thought you had little time to be on the computer-guess you miss us huh

I play a variety of flutes-suling, tambin, shakuhachi, various transverse, nose flute...didgerido, kora, mbira, hosho, harp, djembe as well as various percussion instruments such as udu, ashiko, djun-djun, also oboe and valiha. All with varying degrees of skill but they are all immense fun!

Well, I have about 25 NAF's ! About 26 Didgeridoos-Yidaki-Mago,3 bamboo transverse flutes, Djembe and Bodhran drums. Xiao, Anasazi, Quena , Quenasazi and Shakuhachi flutes. A cheap Penny whistle,and an Electric guitar which I haven't mastered yet in 32 years of owning it!

I play trombone, guitar, fretless bass, drums (kit), various percussion instruments, NAF, skakuhachi, recorder, xiao, penny whistles, transverse flutes ... all but those scary ones with all the keys (but I love James Galway ... so someday!). It's amazing what you can learn when you stumble into the right teachers. Bansuri is next. I was a vocal pedagogy major in college and worked with a lot of choirs. It was very helpful to be a hybrid vocal/instrumental person.

I will be focusing my play for the next year or so on xiao, penny whistles, and bansuri/transverse flutes. I can honestly say I've never had so much pure fun with music as I'm now having with flutes.

Ken

He's the best. I wonder what other instruments James plays...

I say that because, it seems that those mega-super-good players at whatever it is they play, must focus on that thing they do so mega-super-good...

Interesting, Tenzin

Ooh, I like this question!

Lemme see, NAF, Didgeridoo, Drum, Gourd, Quena, Pan Flute, guitar(lefty style), and learning shakuhachi.

I'm pretty good on recorder. Used to be good on flute, but haven't played it in years.

Am pretty decent on piano, used to play church organ.

Still play occasional bass guitar; have owned several guitars, but was never much good at them.

Took lesson in middle eastern (dumbek) and far eastern (tabla) percussion. Tabla the Percussion Instrument From Hell, but I love it. I also have an Udu, Bodhran, and other stuff you can hit. I'm practicing on the Riqq these days, classical style.

I'm gathering more and more world flutes. Have a duduk, hulusi, quena; have a Ney on order. That's going to be fun. The Wind Instrument From Hell, but I'm determined to learn it.

Oh, and dozens of software instruments.

Day job? What day job?

Victor.

PS oops: viola da gamba.

Hmm, instruments I play, boy that could get long but I will keep the list to those I play fairly competently so it will be pretty short. Bohem or concert flute, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, NAflute, clarinets, penny whistle, Irish flute. I also build and repair: guitars, fiddles, mandolins, NA flutes, penny whistles and soon hope to be set up for Irish flutes. I guess I am a wood instrument kind of guy since I can only make nasty sounds with the brass instruments. I do have a harmonica (chromatic from 1953) but I have yet to get it to my mouth.

The resume is long...

Trumpet, french horn, euphonium, clarinet, sax, bass clarinet, trombone, piano (a little), organ (a little more), guitar, elec. bass, and now...the NAF.

I majored in trumpet and french horn in college, taught school music and did church music for 16 or so years, and built pipe organs. I also played in several rock bands, one of which has opened for Loverboy, Kansas, Ian Moore, The Outfield, and Deadeye d*** (a one-hit-wonder band -- did "New Age Girl" on the soundtrack to "Dumb and Dumber.") Have played on stage with Les Stallings (Jazz composer), as well as some of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Now I'm playing with a bluegrass band in my church. Hoping to incorporate some flute music into that group at some point.

I play piano, organ, tenor recorder, Irish whistle (although looking to expand to Irish flute) and sing in a choir (alto). Before I took up NAF five years I was going to learn to play drums but when I heard the NAF for the very first time my heart strings went ZING! That's all it took.

NAFplayer

P.S. Never did learn to play the drums. I can beat out a rhythm but that's about it.

I got my first drum set when I was 5. played all through High School and had a small band when I was 22. Some one stole the trap set after leaving it in a bar after a gig. (nobody know anything). Now when I'm at work, I'll grab two spoons and go to town, hoping the kitchen would join me in a pan band, not yet though.

Can't really call myself a musician either. . . hmmm, well actually where is the line drawn? I appreciate music.
I have always enjoyed dabbling. . .

Played Djembe years back, attended regular circles and west african drumming workshops . . . loved this process but didn't have the focus/practice outside of the groups/ on my own. My Djembe would be somewhat neglected, but my dear friend performs in a local group with it. My friend also makes beautiful Ceramic Udu's and Ceramic Hand drums. . . so there are often udu's floating around.

I have a regular Harmonium Habit, with singing, Bhajan/ Kirtan etc. I've played Harmonium for about 3years, mostly self taught. This has been a great process, in learning . . . that there is capacity to self teach. For me music in my own practice, needs that spiritual element, to keep me hooked.

The thing that I love SSSOOOO much about Native American Style Flute, is that it wants to sing when my vocal chords don't want to. It fills in all the gaps/ blanks/ blocks that I've had with other dabbling and there doesn't need to be to much 'Mind' involved in the process to have moving, enjoyable experiences. Also that with NAF there is something about. . . hmmm, don't think I have the words . . . it is not about 'me'. . . or the 'flute'. . . but something that comes through (have had this experience with harmonium also). Perhaps I need to reword above. . . not 'capacity to self teach' rather 'capacity to be taught by the instrument'. . .? Thinking out loud

Need to quote Mark(earlier in this thread) here:
"The more I get into the naf the more I want to learn music in general. Im enjoying the ride...."

I love this Gem of an instrument!!
So much ENJOYING THE RIDE!

Aroha
Sagar

Instruments I can play more or less competently, Trumpet (major instrument in college, degree in Music Composition), Piano, NASF (Native American Style Flutes - variety of scales/tunings, which all entail different fingerings), djembe, udu, cajon, triangle (you should try this in an orchestra), claves, cowbell, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals (yes orchestra again). Can play most hand drums, congas, bongos, and etc.

I used to play tuba/sousaphone but that was many years ago. Between the time I stopped playing the tuba and when I picked up the NAF, the only thing I really played was the stereo.

LOL. I never use the word "competently".

Guitar is my main instrument, and I play the electric bass competently. I'm progressing on the banjo. I can make usable noises on most fretted stringed instruments if I know the tuning (mandolin, mountain dulcimer, etc) I also dabble in the penny whistle, harmonica, ocarina, etc. I'd really like to learn some percussion and perhaps the cello next.

When you get that cello figured out I got a cave for you in New Zealand that has "cello" written all over it ...flute and cello are a perfect match for each other, when played in a cave...

In Song, Tenzin

String instruments, guitars, banjo, sitar, mando, also
the didgeridoo is a big favorite of mine.

Welcome to the forum GBH, glad you drop in to the conversation and hope that you feel welcome.

By the way I am in awe every time I see a Great Blue Heron overhead. ....


Best,
Ed

Welcome Great Blue Heron!

Glad you've joined us!

thanks for the welcome, I'm learning my way around the site. I play some other
instruments too but I those are the ones I'm somewhat adept at.

Thanks again for the welcome.

Hau,
I like your name. We had a Great Blue Heron fly over here this summer, also, Made this video of one earlier this year, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, right in town, on the river.

Aside from NAF and Anasazi and Mojave flutes, I dabble at a hand drum, rattles, shakers and related percussion instruments.

I once played the harmonica (badly) and the Irish Pennywhistle (also badly).

Recently, I've begun trying my hand at the mountain dulcimer.

Don't pipe up here often but I read a LOT. Thought I'd toss my .02 in. Mostly play acoustic guitar (33 yrs), dabble with electric guitar, bass, strumstick, dulcimer, keyboards, various percussion items, and lately wind instruments (NA flutes, penny whistles, etc.). Would like to get a LOT better at all of them, but time is limited so guitar and NA Flute will likely be my "main" instruments for the foreseeable future.

I've played/dabbled with the blues harp for a few years. I have a blast with it, so many different ways to sound out of a single hole is amazing.

NAF, NA Drum, Acoustic Guitar

I play the autoharp and did play in a group for a while. I own two autoharps by Oscar Schmit. One is acoustic and the other is electric. But lately I have only been playing the acoustic. So I might sell of the electric one. When I played the electric keyboard and the organ way back, it was a struggle and I was not very good. But autoharps are easy. I was playing tunes quite well in the first day. Anyone else out there play this instrument?

I tried uploading a picture of an old autoharp that I restored and handpainted on, but I am not sure it went through.