I have found just this, I started learning the sax 13months ago and since them I keep finding more instruments I want to learn

I am currently learning sax, clarinet, dabbling in piano and have just arranged my first proper flute lesson for friday
Has anyone else found this?? Is there a support group for addicts?

pp x

I'm not sure it's a support group so much as a 'provoke you to get worse and worse' group. It's lead by Sarah-Flute and Allan (Rosfrog). They're evil and should be avoided at all costs. I swear they're responsible for half the instruments in my house. Honest.

And that barry-clari was trying to encourage me to buy a bassoon last night....

Yes, I've found this as wel! Clarinet, Sax, Piano, Oboe, Recorders... Flute when people don't confiscate it

Perhaps there sohuld be a support group! Although I did collect all those without the help of Sarah and Allan... *Must stay away*

I think I will try and stay away from those two , don't think I can afford any more instruments

Go on meerkat. You know it makes sense.

You've been infected by the dread Floot virus, barry. There is no known cure.

Yay to the Floot virus is what I say.

The basson is a great instrument

I was fortunate to try one when I was looking for my first instrument but I wanted something in the treble clef

I'm thinking of buying a decent recorder now I've attended one sesson of our local recorder group (today) - and decided my tenor is rubbish and my plastic descant very shrill - I feel I have to buy a pearwood one (I think Petrat said pear) , or both... to add to my piano, flute, & that oboe I bought last month (because Malone bought one)...

My instruments are increasing gradually, I go from just messing about on them to having lessons in them and taking exams lol!

Started with Piano and from there has lead to Trombone, Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute, Recorders....I think a euphonium is on the cards next

Im starting to fancy a sousophone.

We haven't, I believe, got a sousaphonist on the forum......

yet

Hey, I resemble that remark!


Not me, I just get blamed a lot


Honestly, blackening my good name!


It's probably only a matter of time........

Hey! I can finally tell my mom I've met someone who plays more instruments than me!

I think I got the vaccination as I've not been hit by it.

Unfortunately I can't tell my mum the same

Eventually I will be adding a tenor horn or a french horn to my list when I can finally afford one

Just tried to add a Bass Clarinet to my collection but my mother reminded me that I need to save my money for a new flute and saxophone.

Ah, but if I get hold of the flute I've been wanting for a while, then something else.. Though I think I've run out of Woodwind now, except Bassoon which is a little expensive...

Yup, that sounds about right. I'm just taking my collection of string instruments out of cold storage and this is the time I start to wonder whether it wouldn't be a good idea to start learning a woodwind instrument. I mean, surely a recorder (for instance) can't be that expensive and I did enjoy playing it in primary school. And if a recorder, then why not a flute or clarinet? It's a dangerous path to start on

Recorder addiction is very costly! Don't be fooled! You will start with a plastic soprano and then decide that a wooden one would sound better, then you will add a wooden alto, then get a plastic tenor because you cannot justify the expence of a wooden one, then you will decide that you want a wooden tenor after all, then you will find a group to play with that needs a bass recorder so you will go for a wooden one straight away rather than make the same mistake that you made with the tenor, then you will decide that you want to play modern solo stuff so will get a modern alto recorder, then you will want a mediaeval copy or two just to see how they play, then you will want a sopranino to play Vivaldi, then you will want a garklein and lastly you will want a massive sub-contra! And then you will go to the Early Music Shop and see some other baroque recorders that you like too and add them to your recorder zoo. And you will end up with a great library of music too. ALL RECORDERS SHOULD CARRY A GOVERNMENT WEALTH WARNING!

I went into our local music shop cafe looking for a cream scone and I came out with a trumpet - I'd always fancied that! When I first starded with wind instruments (excluding recorder) A lovely freind asked if I'd rather learn clarinet or Sax, so I said clarinet and she gave me a sax. I really wanted to learn an instrument I could play in an Orchestra and so I took up the flute, then, when I left school, I wanted to lean the french horn, and so I found one and learnt that and then the trumpet, then I was asked to teach at a local music school and ended up learning the clarinet so I could teach that too. And I play the fiddle because I like the sound of scottish fiddle music. And I'd always wanted an Oboe, I have one of those too now. I also tried the trombone, had a brief couple of years at school on the double bass. And I think thats it. Apart from recorders and piano. I think I will have to stop. My flute teacher said my embouchure will suffer eventually if I do too much, so the Oboe is on sale as is the french horn...I need that Instruments Annonumus too I think. Please help me!!

You show mild clarinet symptoms, and I know you've got recorders stashed away....



Yes. Sounds horribly familiar.

Katyjay (17 recorders and counting.....)

Well i have just been bidding on a euphonium and a bass clarinet, but both were unsuccesful! lol Unfortunately

But I have just purchased a Tenor Recorder

That sounds a bit like the time I went out for a loaf and came home with a new car. (Honest).

I'm feeling woefully inadequate

I want to play more but can't afford any more, and parents won't let me play any more

how did you manage that! I thought I was bad but the trumpet was only £100

erm, I need to join a support group too
I am taking up double bass this september coming and cello is on my mind

As Allan would say 'I tripped....'

I think they are pretty likely to stay stashed away.
I only have a descant and a treble.

And recorders look so innocuous too. I would never have imagined they were potentially harmful gateway instruments

Be careful Jojo, you leave the cello and the double bass alone in a room overmight, you come back the next morning, and as if from nowhere, there are little 1/2 size violins popping up all over the place - they multiply, I swear it!

Yeah, it's the innocuous looking ones you've got to watch out for. You think 'oh just one little puff, what harm can it do?' Then you have to up the stakes to get the same hit. A little clarinet. Maybe a taste of flute.

Before you know it, you're mainlining bassoons and cellos, and have an impressive stash of baroch instruments just for recreational purposes.

It's a slippery slope, I tell you. A slippery slope.

AHAHAHAHAH!

Do you think there is help availiable?

I'm going to try aversion therapy - by overloading

Help as in help to only have 1 or 2 instruments, or help as in to be given enough time/money to form a one man orchestra?

I'd like the second kind of help, please!

Hm. I've tried flooding. I'm not sure I'm the poster child for its' effectiveness as an intervention...


Oh no. The dread Floot has joined the thread. Abandon hope ye who enter here.

I am constantly wanting to take up a new instrument....is it an addiction?! My mum is worried

There may be a support group near you. Just remember, take it one day at a time and remember not to buy that first trumpet, just the first trumpet - that's always important

Don't you need a licence to play more than two at the same time?

Possibly one cure is to carry them round with you on foot. Our local music school is a 15 minute walk away. My daughter can't carry the trombone because it is too heavy for her to carry it that far. She could carry the cello but we walk through a park and she usually runs and has a quick climb on something and I don't fancy her doing that with the cello on her back. So I carry the cello on my back, the trombone in one hand and the oboe over one shoulder and my music bag over the other shoulder. I tried to get her to carry the oboe but the case only has a shoulder strap and I couldn't shorten it enough for it not to trail (read bump) along the ground when she carried it so I gave that idea up too. Fortunately her sister has chosen to play the piano so I don't have to carry that as well but she is talking of when she starts a second instrument - I keep hinting that a flute might be nice (and light to carry).

Meanwhile elder daughter has said what happens when you want to start your third instrument because there is only room on the music school enrolement form for two instruments.

I was ok just playing the piano, and a little bit of guitar, many years ago! Then gradually we kept adding to the music room... we got a flute, a violin (and a lovely electric one ), clarinet, viola, recorder and cello. They've gradually taken over my life! I go through stages where I play one a lot - it's clarinet at the moment! It's great to have lots of instruments to jam with I think! I know I'll never be a master of them all, but it's such fun!!!

My aim is to learn one instrument of each type: I've got the percussion and the bowed strings; next is the brass (trumpet maybe) and then woodwind (oboe) and I would LOVE to play harp.

I thought I was going to get an electric cello this week, but it was not to be ... And I was quite looking forward to playing in the bass clef as well - it crossed my mind that it would be useful to be familiar with the bass clef for when I learnt the piano. Piano? PIANO? Where did that come from?????

Yet...


Yet...

Think what a wonderful flute player you can become in the time it takes you to save up and/or convince your parents. I'm looking forward to hearing you one of these years.

I've got exuces for not taking up instruments I like

Bassoon- I'm too small for such a big instrument
Cello- I'm too lazy to learn the tenor cleff
brass- Brass instruments are too loud
Clarinet- If I get to a high sandard, I have to tranpose

When I told my husband I was selling my cello, I pointed out that I'd always be able to get another one if I wanted to go back to it. I said this would probably only be in some unlikely situation, such as when we have somehow have a lot of money and don't need to work, and each of my recorders can only get about an hour-per-day use.
I then tacked on that if that were the case, though, I'd probably have a music-room-summer-house in the garden which would have a piano in it. Which also made me wonder where that thought had come from (he wouldn't mind a piano, I think he'd probably want to give it a go as well).

Today, I am mainly finding reasons why I don't need a bass recorder (I can't get my upgraded treble or tenor until I sell the cello...but a cheap bass off eBay, well, I MUST keep my eyes open just in case )