Hi! tell me if you want another instrument added, sorry if I forgot some!

I started the flute when I was 8 so I have been playing for 9 nearly 10 years !!!

Recorder, I started when I was about 7. At the time I just viewed it as a way of getting into playing clarinet and eventually sax. I now play and enjoy all 3 and a few others, but clarinet is my main instrument.

Was recorder, at five years old. I wish I hadn't stopped at eighteen.......

Making up for it now though!

Recorder seems to be a common instrument.. stands to reason I guess.

Violin - don't recall when I started recorder but some months or even a year or so after violin.

I played the recorder in year 2 for a few sessions as part of a whole class music lesson. So technically is my first instrument, but started flute in year 3 or 4, learning as a group or pair. Didnt learn much in those primary school years....joined secondary school grade 2/3! Done much better since though!

Voice

Clarinet

Descant recorder at 9 (nothing on offer before that), treble recorder at 11, flute at 14.

I seem to remember playing recorder, but also trumpet and cornet (not on your list )

Harmonica - I was about seven when I tried a professional chromatic one and found I could play anything and so my parents bought me one.

I was one of the few who never learned recorder. *sigh*



All I got was a triangle. Meh. (I voted piano by the way )

Flute at age 13, though I played the recorder at school before.

Though technically voice, as I've been singing all my life. I've never had lessons though, so does that count?

I started piano at 15 !!! Now I have started violin at 17!!! WOO

Recorder - aged 7.

i voted for flute but then remembered i played recorder before that! I gave my recorder away to an instrument appeal for African children - which is good but I miss it sometimes!

Accordion was my first instrument.

Recorder in 2nd class. We only did it for about 2 weeks. Started lessons in 3rd and piano 3 months later.

I startred piano and violin both when I was 6, and Oboe last september.

First instrument - piano. Then when i was in secondary school i started learning recorder for internal school music exams in 1st year then stopped in 3rd year. Now i have stopped piano lessons at uni.

I agree with katyjay and july - can you add voice, Queen Jess??!

I started piano when I was 7, now grade 8 on both piano and violin. Always learn pieces you enjoy, believe me, it makes you learn real quick

i started violin at 3 and piano at 10!!!

I know I put recorder in an earlier post, but I guess voice must've come first (in playgroup, late 1970s).....

I don't ever remember actually learning recorder - I just always seemed to know how to play it. I do remember going through my dad's recorder books so maybe I just taught myself.

Anyway, I started violin at 6 and piano much later at 14.

sorry, I knew I was forgetting something
erm... how do you add more options?

Cornet

Me too But I don't really remember what I started first, recorder or harmonica. (I left both )

oooh i remember it well...sitting on the desk with my recorder in my hand when i was only 5 years old (11 years ago...making me sound even older ) trying to play "buzzy bee" ahha lol

I don't think you can...

I voted piano because officially that was my first instrument, but I messed about on recorder before that at school.

I started violin at 11, and flute at 15. My parents are rather unsupportive of anything musical, but i wish i had been allowed to learn something from a young age.

I played recorder first, gave it up after about a year and started the piano the year after.

But as many people have said, technically voice is my first and probably wood blocks/shakers/guiro type things at Musical Minors

Clarinet was my first i started when i was about 8, then when i was 11/12 i started flute, then saxophone when i was about 13... oboe when i was 13/14, i started voice lessons when i was 14... i'd been playing piano throughout all of this lol but i didn't start piano lessons until i was 15, but after a few months i stopped as it got too much but i'm starting piano lessons again in September.
confusiiiiing >_<
but now i play flute sooooo much (looove flute <3 hehe) that i find it so so so sooo hard to play clarinet >_<

well I played a recorder at primary school, but the first instrument I started learning formally was Oboe when I was 11.

I started the piano when I was in primary one so I think that was when I was 5 or 6 then recorder at 7/8 then saxophone when I was 13 and flute at 15 (thankfully my prior musical experience made me grade 5 about a week after I started and that has been my main instrument, there are a few other instruments which take a backseat when I'm bust with that...

Piano, when I was 7, I think.

haha im such an idiot. I put piano but meant recorder. *slaps self on head*

Piano for 4 years.

Piano was mine, though I do have a recorder and beginner book and self taught myself when I was around 9/10. I can't remember how to play it now!! haha I've also got a harmonica, not sure how that works though.

ok I have just had a brainwave...
since nobody voted for cello, we'll just say that's voice.

(took me a while to come up with that! )

Flute!

My first instrument was recorder, closely followed by flute; which I still play. I also play the tenor sax.

I started piano when I was 4, then clarinet at 11 and flute at 14!

Mouthorgan

Drum Kit


Not on the poll - hardly surprising really... Most people forget us drummers!

First came piano (aged 6), 8 saw me pick up the flute, 10 saw me teach myself descant recorder (so I was able to join the Recorder Ensemble, and retain my playing in every group record!), and lots more since!

What? No viola?

Mind you, it does tend not to be first, and I didn't do it first, so it doesn't really matter too much...