QUOTE (tremolololo @ Jul 8 2004, 01:12 AM)

I started piano at 8, maybe a bit late but I learnt quickly I started clarinet at around 10.

Which virtuoso recorder player was this, recorderzrule???

I started piano at 5ish. I started playing the recorder when i was 8 but when i reacher 12 i started clarinet and reached grade 4 in a year! I started guitar when i was 8 and singing when i was 13 because i enjoyed acting and theatre and wanted to make sure i was singing 'correctly' when i had to play various parts. The funniest thing for me was that fact that the only person in my family who was musical was my great-grandad who played the spoons and sung folk songs I also believe he has CDs on amazon

Enjoy yourselves,

Kees xxx

I don't really remember when I started taking lessons for playing the piano. I think I was in 4th grade, which would make me about 9 years old at the time. I learned to play the flute in junior high (I guess I was 11 years old). Played for 3 years and stopped when I graduated.

I stopped taking piano lessons a little while after I started, because it was an informal thing anyway. Then I started taking lessons again, switched instructors twice (made me hate practicing cuz I never knew what the instructors expected from me), and stopped again for four more years (during high school, because by that time I was hating it so much). Now I've started taking lessons again (college, because I taught myself Fur Elise and decided I enjoyed playing the piano after all, and because my parents finally agreed to buy me a REAL, MECHANICAL piano ).

Until now, none of my instructors were giving me formal lessons. I want to take the grade 5 practical soon, though my current instructor tells me that, looking at the songs, I could probably take the grade 6 if I didn't have to take Theory first. I don't know why I'm bothering with the test, but I guess it'll be fun since nothing really rides on it except my ego. lol

I have never learned theory and I only know the major scales (no arpeggios, no minor scales, no chromatic scale, no aural, no sight-reading...). If I want to make the October exam, I have lotsa work to do.

Wish me luck! lol

about 4ish i started brginners n went to grade 1 about 5ish n took my exam near there.. im 12 nw .. that was for piano

gituar.. 12

Piano, 5; clarinet, 11; violin, 37.

I started piano when I was 7, I'm now 15 and am doing grade 8 in November.
I started the cello when I was 13 and I'm doing grade 4 in novemeber aswell.
I started the harp when I was 9 but I'm not sure what grade I am, maybe about 6.

I used to play the descant and bass recorders; the glockenspiel, metalaphone n xylophone in an orchestra; and the steel pans in a group.

I realllllllly want to play the violin but I don't have enough time or money

i really wanna learn how to play a harpsichord...but i hardly have time...

hi
i've been playing the piano since i was 6 and i've been playing the violin for 2 years
i'm 10 now and i really want to play the flute , but my mum won't let me. she says i dont have time!

i'm sure u do have time...just try and convince your mother...music is excellent for life..

Hi,

I started the violin at 8, the piano at 11, the organ and voice at 14. These are just a few of the Western instruments that I can play. I also play a number of world musical instruments, such as the Japanese koto and Thai Khong wong yai. I think from this you can see that I am obsessed with learning instruments.

Hi,
I started playing at around 13,in 1999.did grade 8 last year,another exam quite similar to the dipabrsm this year and I am currently preparing for my next diploma.

piano-9yrs old
flute-9yrs old (but on both was turning 10 in a month)
oboe - 11yrs old
sax - 13yrs old
i'm now 16 nd hav gr8 on sax nd oboe nd gr7 on flute nd gr5 on piano.

Clarinet - started at 11 - played for 4 years (grade 7 ish) violin - started at 8 - played for 7 years (Grade 5) Double bass - started christmas 2003 and just passed my grade 5 with 139!

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well done...many congrats...

Guitar - 12
Bass - 13
Piano - 14
Drums - 15

Nice pattern I've got going there . I'm 15 now, I haven't done any exams yet though I am doing 5 on guitar next month and hopefully 7 or 8 by the end of this year

10 years on Piano???!!!

QUOTE (aznxboy1228 @ Apr 20 2004, 04:00 AM)

I started piano at 9 and flute at 10.5; I don't know if that's considered late

i started piano at 9, cello at almost eleven, and singing at 16.
now im just 17 and im on grade 7 piano, done grade 8 cello, and working for grade 6 singing.

oh, i started my first piano lesson at 14, since last september,2004.and now, i've passed my grade 1 piano exam with distinction.i would like to know any other ppl who also start about my age?and can anyone reply me whether it's considered too old for learning piano at the age of 15??
i've just learned about my result last saturday.and i'm now preparing for my grade3/4's pieces.and hope any other grade 3or4 students to share their learning expereince wif me too.

p/s:i'm a new member of this forum

welcome... i like piano

i like piano- its never to late to learn

im 17 and not long started saxophone- taking grade 5 next yr.

ive also just done grade 4 piano, and doing grade 5 in november

congrats on ur grade 1 distinction!

started piano at 4, classical guitar at 10 and electric guitar at 13...
now i'm 15 and just passed grade 8.. thinking of re-taking it though... (i did post a topic on it)
and my classical guitar is at grade 3, doing grade 8 theory next year.. really nervous..

I started the violin at 7 until I was 15.

Started to play again at 2 years ago at 22 and Im enjoying it much more than when I was younger. I take my grade 8 next year

ok here we go...
singing (random) age 2
violin age 4
descant recorder age 5
piano age 6
singing (proper training) age 11
treble, tenor and bass recorders age 14
viola age 14
organ age 16
french horn age 16
guitar age 16
i can play the clarinet, but i choose not to.
sorry if this sounds like i'm showing off. i don't have a life outside music!!!

piano age 7
cello age 8

Now 10 & going for grade 3 piano & grade 4 cello next (not too soon), so a long way to go yet.

Hi there

I've been playing the piano since i was 10 or 11 and am about grade 5. I also started the violin at about 10 and am grade 5. I started the Double Bass a year ago when i was 12 and am working towards my grade 4.

Also just started Grade 5 theory! HELP!!!

I started the sax when I was 11 (3 years ago) and i am takin my grade 5 in a month

i'm going to take grade 6 organ next term....grade 6 theory as well.... plus performer's certificate (trinity) for piano

QUOTE (aznxboy1228 @ Apr 20 2004, 04:00 AM)

I started piano at 9 and flute at 10.5; I don't know if that's considered late

no its not late i started playin the flute at 11 n a bit n now i m 14

i kno its not very long

not late at all.....consider myself....i started playing the organ when i was 15....that's late...

QUOTE (cheeble @ Sep 15 2004, 05:13 PM)

ok here we go... singing (random) age 2 violin age 4 descant recorder age 5 piano age 6 singing (proper training) age 11 treble, tenor and bass recorders age 14 viola age 14 organ age 16 french horn age 16 guitar age 16 i can play the clarinet, but i choose not to. sorry if this sounds like i'm showing off. i don't have a life outside music!!!

That's sounds quite a lot...
Can you really play all instruments well? If I were you, I'd never been able to give enough practice time to each instrument!

I walked into the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool when I was 4, pointed to the Organist and said "I want to do that." My parents bought me a bontempi Organ and i've not looked back ever since.

Only last year (30 years old) did I decide to learn how to play the Piano and take examinations. I did some Organ Examinations when I was in my teens along with Theory - upto Grade 4 but due to leaving school and getting a job I had to give up my music education. Its only in the past 3 or 4 years that I have gone back to doing my Theory Grades again (now at Grade 8) with the same Teacher I had when I was a teen.

Throughout my life things have made me smile or sad, Music has always made me smile and picked me up when I was feeling sad.

Regards,
Craig

Eh.

Violin: Age 9

I did piano/keyboard when I was eight for one year, but I want to start again next year.

i was 4 when i started violin and 8 when i started piano.

I was 12 when I started piano, and I started guitar last month.

Car Expert

I started piano when I was 7 and violin when I was 10. I'd like to play the cello!!!

I was 12 when I started playing the piano (I'm now 15), and have just done my grade 4 exam, hope i pass

I started singing when I was about 2 (and still haven't shut up), piano at 5 and 'cello at 12. I still play the piano and sing, and I recently picked up my 'cello again after a gap of about 20 years. I'm having great fun with it and am looking to take my grade 8 next year.

LynneM

piano-8
violin-13
handbell-12.5

I started playing the Alto Sax at 9.

I started cello when i was 12 quit when i was coming 14 then restarted 7 months later, i quit because my teacher was keeping me on grade 1 stuff for too long but now shes skipped me to grade 2/3 and its been 2 months since i restarted and i am starting singing just after christmas or maybe before

I started taking singing lessons when I was about 10; but I started singing years before that. I have taken piano lessons on and off since I was 12, but really got serious about it earlier this year when I was 17.

I started learning the piano when I was 5, and I have already been playing it for nearly 15 years.

I started organ at 5 or 6, switched to piano at 8... and am now learning violin as well.

*Stuff I play now:
Started piano when i was 8 (stopped lessons when i was 16)
Started oboe when i was 12, got an actual oboe teacher when i was 14.
Started cor anglais when i was 15
Started Tenor Sax when i was 17, only had maybe 15 lessons total though
Started clarinet... erm, sometime this year, but not actually played it more than a dozen times yet, lol

*Stuff i useda play:
Started recorder when i was 5, did grade 2
Started violin when i was 7, quit when i was 10.
Started bassoon when i was 16, stopped when i was 17.. the county needed their bassoon back!

I started learning at 5 but picked up a whole lot of other instruments when I got to secondary school