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> If you could start again ..., ... which instrument(s) would you have picked!
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If you could start music again, which instrument would you pick?
Piano [ 28 ] ** [28.57%]
Violin [ 12 ] ** [12.24%]
Viola [ 6 ] ** [6.12%]
Cello [ 12 ] ** [12.24%]
Double Bass [ 1 ] ** [1.02%]
Oboe [ 10 ] ** [10.20%]
Bassoon [ 3 ] ** [3.06%]
Clarinet [ 5 ] ** [5.10%]
Flute [ 6 ] ** [6.12%]
Trumpet [ 2 ] ** [2.04%]
Trombone [ 1 ] ** [1.02%]
Horn [ 5 ] ** [5.10%]
Tuba [ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
Percussion [ 1 ] ** [1.02%]
Harp [ 1 ] ** [1.02%]
Organ [ 2 ] ** [2.04%]
Other [ 3 ] ** [3.06%]
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Pixie*Porsche
post Aug 26 2011, 03:41 PM
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If you could start music again from scratch, would you have picked the instrument(s) you play today?

Would it be the instrument(s) that you play now? Or would you have started with something different?
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post Aug 26 2011, 03:47 PM
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I would still have picked piano. Though actually, i didn't pick it, I was sent for lessons.
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post Aug 26 2011, 04:07 PM
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I would still have picked piano, but I would dearly love to have started another instrument in my teens. Unfortunately funds didn't allow.
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post Aug 26 2011, 04:10 PM
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I would probably still pick keyboard purely for the reason that had I not picked keyboard then I wouldn't have been able to give it up, thus leading to me starting piano with my current teacher!

I would quite like to start guitar sometime soon though, when I can afford it!
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post Aug 26 2011, 05:36 PM
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I would still choose piano. Like Susie I wish I had taken up an additional instrument in my teens, but I don't know whether funds would have been a problem - it just didn't occur to me. (Duh!)
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post Aug 26 2011, 05:37 PM
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Viola, as I would have loved to be in orchestras and the sound wouldn't have provoked my parents to kill me in the early stages - I do love the sound of well played string instruments, but not that of beginners. I do love the flute though - just wish I'd had the chance to play 2 instruments at school.
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post Aug 26 2011, 05:46 PM
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I would have picked piano, violin and viola. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Would love to start playing a string instrument again but just don't have the time to dedicate to it at the moment, especially with concentrating on piano.

I do love clarinet but I enjoy teaching others how to play it more than I enjoy playing it myself! I can play piano for hours and hours to just enjoy it. After an hour on clarinet I feel physically quite tired!
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post Aug 26 2011, 06:06 PM
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I'd have picked exactly what I play now..

The Oboe...is there really anything else (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

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post Aug 26 2011, 06:44 PM
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QUOTE(A.U.K @ Aug 26 2011, 07:06 PM) *

The Oboe...is there really anything else (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Andrew

No, of course not. I would have done the same - but 40 years earlier.
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post Aug 26 2011, 08:15 PM
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Cello and piano (if I'm allowed two). My mother and older sister played the cello so my parents thought I should play the violin (I don't remember being asked). I hated it and gave it up before long. My sister played the cello for a few years, but also gave up.

It was only when we were both in our forties that we discussed this and I told her I would have really liked the cello. She said she had really wanted to play the violin. I don't think it occured to either of us to tell our parents at the time!

Piano, because I can't imagine not being able to play it (even as badly as I do).

If I'm allowed a third - harp.
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post Aug 26 2011, 08:19 PM
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Like soccermom, I can't imagine not being able to play the piano, even badly (as I do), but I wish I'd learnt the guitar. I love classical guitar music, but also really would like to have been Chrissie Hynde.
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post Aug 26 2011, 08:39 PM
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I chose piano but had to wait a long time for lessons.
Took the scenic route via clarinet and cornet (gave up clarinet) which were on offer and somehow finished up with clarinet alongside piano in the end.
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post Aug 26 2011, 08:53 PM
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I voted piano, because that's what really started making me love music. Though, I should have picked other: Recorder. I bought the Aulos book for beginners and finished it before lessons started. If I remember correctly, the lessons were free because the teacher volunteered. She was also an RSPCA officer. The other reason is that I decided I would do the recorder, not my parents. That is the same with all my instruments. Thankfully, they have supported me in my decision, and the horrible squeals when trying to reach higher notes than my register.
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post Aug 26 2011, 09:56 PM
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Between horn and oboe for the monumental amount of orchestral solos. Plunked for horn cos there is also scope to be loud and antisocial! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Aug 26 2011, 09:59 PM
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I only played piano (very badly) and honestly didn't realise there were other instruments out there - it was just never discussed in my family and I never thought of it as an option.

Looking back now - I wish I'd had the chance to try out some other instruments, because I just MIGHT have found one that I could actually learn to play!

I haven't voted because although there are instruments I'd quite like to try/to have tried, I still have a horrible sinking feeling that I would have been equally useless at all of them...*sigh*...

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