I have collected a fair glut of instruments over the years, some in good nick, some needing to be put out of their misery! In total I think I have:

Piano
Viola
Violin
Flute
Baroque Flute
Balalaika
Recorders in many flavours: 4 descants, 1 garklein, 1 sop, 2 treble, 1 tenor, 1 bass

But I have spent many years dreaming about a harp. I keep looking at harps online as the prices come down and down, especially as the size of repertoire for a lever harp is increasing and I no longer need to look at pedal models. I want a harp, I want a harp, I want a harp!!!

But I also really need a cello, and I think I need to get that first - agree with it or not, local policy dictates that if I want to join certain teaching lists that I am interested in I have to be a "strings" teacher. Seems barking they are all worried about my experience and playing level on violin/viola but couldn't give a monkeys that I am not trained in cello and vv for a first study cellist, but them's the rules. I can find all manner of places in England to rent one or 0% finance one, but nowhere in Scotland. Peeved.

Oh, and of course I want a nice wooden descant, and I want a baroque violin/viola, a tenor viol...

Do you keep an orchestra in your house?

I don't dream about instruments More like have nightmares.

Daughter needs a Cor Anglais. Of course she would like one, wants one but also needs it.

Hopefully we'll get enough funding for one.

Maybe I'll list again all our instruments when my brain's in gear.

I own lots recorders (1 tenor, 3 trebles, 2 descants, 1 sopranino and a garklein), a lovely violin, a not so lovely viola an upright piano and a ditital piano.

I would love more recorders, especially a renaissance descant and a 415 treble. A wooden tenor of some description would be nice too. Other ones I'd like (in rough order of preference) are a baroque flute , a cor anglais, a clarinet, a nicer viola, a harpsichord, a cello... most instruments would be nice really! Oh, I forgot a grand piano!!!!

I have :

Several clarinets, a flute, a couple of alto saxes, several recorders of varying sizes, a rather tired and careworn keyboard, a (borrowed) cello.

I will be getting in the short-medium term :

A 'cello to replace the borrowed one, a new flute, which will replace the current one, a bass recorder.

I would like :

Possibly one more clarinet, plus a bass clarinet, and an alto flute. And a replacement keyboard.

I have (too many):

Oboe/Cor Anglais

Flute

Clarinet (in A for some reason)

Guitars (Electric/Acoustic/Bass/Acoustic Bass[why???])

Bouzouki

Electric Piano

Electric Drum Kit



I would love a grand, but wouldn't everyone! I want to play the cello or viola, just so I can play in string quartets really. I love quartets, there's so little good chamber music for wind players.

An alto flute and double bass would be nice too but that's pretty greedy...

Hmmm....where to start?

One great bass recorder, wooden.

One electric piano. Hardly used, except as an instrument stand and music filing system....

Two bass recorders, one plastic, one wooden.

One voice, soprano, reasonable working order.

Five treble recorders, one old plastic, one new plastic, three wooden.

One clarinet, Bb, elderly.

Three sopranino recorders, one old plastic, one new plastic and one new wooden.

Two flutes, one old and one new.

One garklein recorder, plastic.

Three tenor recorders, one manky plastic, one good plastic, one wooden.

Two violins, one new and one even newer.

Six descant recorders, one old plastic, two new plastic, three wooden.

I think that's all at the moment....



EDIT

Misterjay reminds me I have forgotten an instrument from the list:

One kazoo, plastic, yellow.

As far as instruments I dream about owning, none specifically at the moment (although with the Greenwich Early Music Festival next month that may change). But having a big enough room to store everything, plus my music library, would be rather good....

Three cellos, one shiny and (relatively) new, one elderly, cracked and not really playable but cherished for what it has meant to me and one three quarter size belonging to daughter.
Three descant recorders (there might be another one around somewhere) - one is transparent and blue , the others just your average brown plastic. Means I can help small son out with his practice plus just have fun fiddling around together. (With occasional dreams of taking recorder to greater heights, soon to be dashed by reality of all spare time being spent on cello).
One piano
One battered elderly violin and one even more battered elderly violin strung up as a viola belonging to my two brothers, neither of whom persisted for long on said instruments, so they eventually found their way under my bed
Various percussion instrument thingies (a banana shaped shaker, rather snazzy tambourine, Tibetan prayer drum and so on, which are great for small son to join in with family music making).

What would I like? Oooh, now that is a dangerous question!! Have always wanted to get my knees round a viola da gamba, or have a go on a lute.........harpsichord would be fab, am I allowed an organ? (but hubby would DEFINITELY leave me then....) And while I'm at it, have had to put my hands behind my back when looking at the double basses in my daughter's orchestra as I would really like to play with one to see how they compare to my cello.

I think that will just about do.......until I win the lottery!

Wolfnotes (hmm, wonder if I could just sneak a very small harpsichord past hubby?? What do you think??)

Three flutes: two very, very nice ones and one old tatty one. Also a piccolo, an alto flute and a bass flute.

Recorders: one garklein, two sopraninos, five descants plus a few assorted old ones, five trebles, three tenors, two basses.

One piano (upright).

One guitar (classical).

One voice (soprano).

Would like to get: a bass viol (and probably the other sizes too), a violin, viola and cello for fun, an organ, an oboe and cor anglais and possibly a bassoon. I'd quite like a few renaissance buzzers too, but I draw the line at a shawm.

Oh, I like that : can I add 'one voice (countertenor)' to my list?

One Yamaha CL250 clarinet, one Yamaha clavinova, two acoustic guitars (Stagg and Richwood - both actually belong to my daughter!), one Yamaha descant recorder (no we don't have shares in Yamaha - honestly!!) and two flageolets - one for me and one for my daughter so we can duet together!!

I too would love a grand piano and dream of upgrading my Yamaha student clarinet to a Buffet R13 RC or similar! One day...

I have 1 clarinet, 1 flute, 1 alto sax, 1 violin (hardly used) and 1 piano.

I would love to own (and play) the bassoon or oboe. Either that or a top of the range French Horn

Lois

I have: a few recorders. (one sopranino, fit only for propping up a harpsichord lid, two descants, three trebles, two tenors, a broken bass and a borrowed contrabass, which looks like airconditioning ducting)
I would like: a few recorders - a transitional descant, a 415Hz descant, a second 415Hz treble, a 414Hz tenor, a voice flute with interchangeable middle sections for 415 and 440Hz, a good bass...and then we'll see, maybe lower too.

My husband has: a piano, a square piano without strings, a harpsichord, a clavichord and a tenor viol. I daren't ask him what he'd like - my recorders fit into a couple of drawers in the living room, but his tastes in instruments are rather more demanding of space...

My kids own between them: electronic drumkit, two electronic keyboards , a 3/4 size guitar, and the ability to Make Quite a Lot of Noise .

I have:

1 concert flute (i.e. a 'normal' flute in C).
1 piccolo with a 2nd picc headjoint
1 violin with 2 bows (my new bow is gorgeous )
1 clarinet
A small collection of recorders - 1 sopranino (plastic), 2 descant (1 plastic, 1 pearwood), 2 treble (1 plastic, 1 maple) and 1 tenor (pastic)
2 keyboards (one of which is little and one of which is the size of a piano keyboard)
1 guitar which hasn't been played for rather a long time
An out-of-practice Soprano voice

Top of the wish list is an alto flute.

My other wish list items are another descant recorder (in wood, but I'm not sure which), a wooden sopranino, a really nice piccolo, a cello (learnt at school and would like to be able to mess around on one eventhough violin is my preferred string instrument), a celtic flute, some whistles including a low whistle and possibly a bass flute.

For some reason baroque flute has never appealed to me.

A perennial topic, but always fun:

In our house we have . . .

1 piano (grand)
1 digital keyboard
1 flute
1 piccolo
1 clarinet
1 Bass guitar
3 acoustic 6 string guitars
1 12 string guitar
5 harmonicas
1 full-size violin
1 3/4 size violin
An assortment of hand-held percussion
2 tin whistles

On the shopping list is . . .
An iPod
A better flute
An alto flute
A bass flute
A better Piccolo
An electric guitar
A trombone (?)
Another digital keyboard (so that my son can take one with him when he goes to Uni)
A better grand piano
A LOT of sheet music
The moon . . .

I nicked the idea from katyjay's reply!

We have
A piano (upright, 100 year-old, but really good)
A Casio keyboard (more of a toy than anything - only ocasionally used)

Unused:
An acoustic guitar
3 recorders - 2 plastic one wooden

What I dream about owning
Bosendorfer or Bechstein concert grand

What I will probably get -
A decent practice keyboard

That's it, we're all coming to your house! I forgot alto flute from my wishlist. Oh, and of course since I found myself on the Early Music Shop website searching for a case for my baroque flute I now want a baroque oboe. God knows why, I am quite sure I would never be able to play it!

hmm let's see currently own

4 Bb clarinets, 2 A clarinets, 2 Eb clarinets, 1 Bass clarinet.

2 Alto saxophones, 1 soprano sax

The recorder collection consists of at least: 1 Garklein, 3 sopraninos, 6 descants, 4 trebles, 4 tenors, 2 bass

1 voice, quality variable, range erratic!

All of the above get a reasonable amount of use

There is also a keyboard, various whistles and a handful of pieces of plastic that are shaped like a recorder but are pretty useless.


As for the wish list

A wooden bass recorder, a clarinet in C, tenor sax, possibly a baritone sax.........all of these need to remain dreams as I don't have the cash, the space to put them and definitely don't have the time to master them.

ooh, tell me about that one! In general I am a mezzo soprano (always fun in choirs when I am not able to sing the sop or the alto line as both go outside my range somewhere) but some days I wake up with a borderline tenor voice, in fact I sang tenor in an opera performance, and on the same night I was in the chorus of a ballet that had rehearsed separately so I didn't realise the problem with going on to sing top sop! Other days I wake up with such a belting soprano that A-440 seems like a really low note. That's when I can do the Queen of the Night and reckon I could get higher. Usually those days coincide with a time I have to do something like a mum and toddler singalong, and there's everyone else singing normally and me doing it all an octave up and sounding like I wandered in for ameteur opera hour.

Not much in our house in comparison with others - upright piano, tenor recorder, descant recorder, tin whistle in F (I think), tenor voice and soprano voice.

I would love a really good piano when I can play to a better standard!

1 Bb Clarinet
2 Violins
1 keyboard
1 guitar.

WISH LIST

1 Alto saxophone !!!

I have ...

1 Piano
1 Bb Clarinet
1 Flute
1 Tenor Recorder
1 Soprano Recorder
1 Ocarina
1 Harmonica
1 South American Recorder
1 Violin

I would like ....

Cor Anglais
Oboe
Viola
Cello

Have:

2 classical guitars
1 each 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar
2 electric guitars
3 button accordions
1 viola
1 bucketful recorders and tin whistles
3 ( ) oboes

Want:
A cor anglais of course

Yamaha CLP270

I really want a Steinway Baby Grand. Maybe in a few years...

Hi everyone

We have;

3 Vioins (1/16, 1/10, 1/8) - all belongs to my daughter.

2 Recorders

2 Clarinets (Buffet Crampon RC 13 - 25 years old and Yamana Custom CS)

1 Oboe (Yamaha Custom YOB81 - I bought it with extreamly good exchange rate, so ended up super bargain!)

1 Classic guitar

1 Yamaha uplight piano

And as shopping list, I hope I can add Cor Anglais this Thursday! (finger cross...) and possible oboe d'amore as my HN in short future?

I would love to start to learn cello one day!


I

I have a decent clavinova, an aged trumpet in the spare room somewhere and a baritone voice. I would like to have a tenor voice to use at times too, and perhaps a better counter tenor register. I have always wanted to play the lute but don't think that I have the time or patience to learn.

What I have is pretty poor by recorderist standards
1 garklein (plastic)
1 sopranino (maple)
1 descant (pearwood)
1 treble (cherrywood)
1 tenor (boxwood)
1 bass (plastic)

I'm a bit bemused as to where my plastic treble and tenor have gone...I think I over-enthusiastically sold them on the noticeboard at work to help fund more music, after I'd bought and played in the wooden ones. Which doubtles seemed sensible at the time but now looks a bit daft, not having spares, or at the very least a spare treble!

Wishlist would be
A nicer descant - though I can't really define 'nicer'.
A 'more baroque' treble - my existing treble is nice, and my teacher declared it ideally suited to 20th century repertoire, but said perhaps I'd want to consider something more baroque for my next purchase. What with it being the Early Music Festival next month, and having an inheritance arriving soon in the bank account, I should probably find out what 'more baroque' actually means
A plastic treble, just in case
A wooden bass, although I don't really play the bass often enough to warrant one (I'd take a decade to play it in!)
A great bass or bigger - because if I had one of these, I definitely would play it often!

1 tenor sax played frequently
1 alto sax played regularly
1 decrepit tenor sax not in playing conditon and not worth putting into playing condition, but I can't work out what to do with it.
1 digital piano / keyboard for playing about with and trying out odd bits of tunes / chord progressions etc

Would like:
to at least have a good try of some Mark VI tenors to see if one gels for me (though I do really like my existing tenor)
A baritone sax
A piano - but only if I manage to learn to play it properly, the keyboard is probably better for the sort of fiddling about I do.
I'd like to be able to play double bass, but I have no desire to go through the learning process, so I can't see it's going to happen.
If my practice time wasn't limited to the point that more than one main instrument is probably not realistic I'd like a clarinet to see if I can still remember how to play it.

I think many of us would like to try/learn several or more other instruments, but I guess the question we have to ask ourselves is if we're happy to spread our studies across several instruments or whether we want to focus and attempt to excel at only one (or two if you're gifted)

I've definitely decided to concentrate my efforts on one. The niggle I have is that I suspect getting some basic keyboard skills together would help with my sax playing, to the extent it would help with the jazz improvising, rather than it would help with my sax technique.

In our house:
1 plastic descant
1 plastic treble
1 tin whistle
1 upright piano
1 plastic Bb clarinet
1 old and battered, 2nd hand guitar which goes out of tune every 5 minutes
1 bassoon (borrowed from CIMA) which almost never plays in tune
1 alto saxophone (ditto) which can play in tune, but only when someone other than my brother is playing it

Voices: 1 mezzo-soprano with small and variable range, 1 boy treble, 1 five-yr-old girl treble (very high ), and my parents don't sing so couldn't say what voices they have.

Would like to own:
grand piano , wooden clarinet, fiddle, soprano sax (or tenor), wooden treble recorder, tenor and bass recorders. A contrabassoon would be great! It would also be nice to be able to sing well and with a bigger range

1 piano
1 flute
1 cello
1 clarinet
1 recorder
1 drum kit
1 electric guitar
1 acoustic guitar
1 bass guitar
1 didgeriedoo

Would like:
Steinway Concert Grand Piano
New flute (Solid silver)

Wow,

Some of you have an amazing array of instruments.

My "collection" is very sparse:-

1 classical
1 pretend classical - OK its plastic
2 electrics
oh and a midi keyboard

Funnily enough it's the plastic guitar that I reach fo first - it's a dream to play.

I'm just starting with piano lessons and would love a clavinova, but funds alas don't permit.

Kind regards
All the best,

Nigel

Oh oh oh!
An oboe
A cor anglais
A flute
A piccolo
An Eb sopranino clarinet
A Bb Clarinet
A Sop sax
An Alto sax
An Tenor sax
Two descant recorders
A treble recorder
A tenor recorder
A Bass recorder
A Garklein recorder
Two whistles
A bagpipe chanter
A Glastonbury pipe
A Bombarde
A violin
A viola
A Guitar
A Trumpet
A full size MIDI keyboard
An upright piano
A harp that my husband built for me
A didgeridoo


Various bangy shakey things.


I would love (my lottery win list!)... a bass clarinet, a bari sax, a bassoon, a contra bassoon, an oboe d'amore, a bass oboe... one of each of the standard renaissance/ baroque wind and string instruments, starting with a crumhorn and a tenor viol.

I think that a lot of us are rather greedy when it comes to musical instruments!

(and I'm guilty of this too... )

No... just lucky...

What I would really like is a small (acoustic) grand piano surrounded by a large detached house, in which the other things I like to play could be practiced without bothering my neighbours. The clavinova is lovely, but I really don't like playing with headphones much.
N

(mentally going round the house!)

Trumpet
Cornet
Trombone
Valved trombone
Fife
Selection of african drums
Roland digital piano
Electric guitar
Bass guitar

edit (oh yeah, a coaching horn!)

Really really want an acoustic grand. my piano teacher has a yamaha and it is wonderful to play

I gave all the instruments I knew I wouldn't play again away.

All I have now is a Clavinova CLP280
2 keyboards (an old casio and a Korg M1) that were given to me when I started learning the piano and didn't have a piano yet!! (well they were very useful for a month or so until I received my clavinova - haven't touched them since though!)

Would love.....a Steinway grand piano!!!

Far too many.

Four recorders (Moeck and others)
Two tin whistles
Three harmonicas (Hohner)
A kalimba/sansa/thumb piano
Two bamboo flutes
Hand percussion (bells, cabasa, shakers, pandeiro, etc)
Mandolin (Epiphone)
Acoustic guitar (Takemine)
Concert flute (Yamaha)
Bb Clarinet (Buffet)
Alto saxophone (Selmer)
Baritone saxophone (Yanigasawa)

Actually, seeing that list depresses me. Why all this STUFF? If only I had time to play them (or at least most of them) properly. I most respect a friend (saxophonst/teacher) who has one tenor saxophone, one flute and a piano. he says that until he can play the saxophone well enough, he shouldn't get any other instruments.

That said, I may get an electric guitar (Yamaha Pacifica 112). Why?

Reading these entries made me realise I have a lot more instruments than I would originally have thought of. They do seem to accumulate, don't they?

I have

A banjo (obviously. Actually it's a mandolin banjo, niot that it matters. I can't play it whatever it is)
An upright piano (had two until Saturday)
Descant recorder
Indian drum
Broken snare drum
Chanter
Tin whistle
Accordian
Harmonium
Keyboard

and in the house...
cello
two violas
sax
2 mini accordians
pocket sax

I have:

5 Bb clarinets
2 A clarinets
1 bass clarinet
2 sop saxes
1 alto sax
1 tenor sax
2 flutes
1 fife
2 violins
1 trumpet
1 french horn
2 keyboards
1 piano
1 descant, treble and tenor recorder

Think that's all

Oh...and I would like a new alto sax and clarinet

I have

A lovely black piano
a recorder
a Bb clarinet (only just started to learn)

My son has

an old piano
about 3 descant recorders
suprano recorder
treble recorder
flute

I would like

A grand piano
a cello

ET

I have:

My lovely wooden clarinet
My old clarinet (plastic and unused, but got me up to grade 6)
My brilliant new shiny tenor sax

Also in our house:

The piano
A flute (sister's)
A french horn (brother's)
A guitar (mum's)
A couple of recorders (sister's)
A cheap harmonica bought as a souvenir from somewhere (brother's)
A long plastic horn thing that gets taken to football matches (also brother's, but this isn't really an instrument)

I think this is it.



Wow, I didn't realise how much there was until I wrote this list!

I know, you never really think about all the random recorders etc. floating about the house! I once asked a friend from church (VERY musical) how many instruments were in his house. We needed both hands on three people, plus one finger!!

Ah yes, I forgot my 2 harmonicas.
Oh and a 3 hole pipe just popped into my head.

Same reason I have 2 Gordon Smiths? Just wrap it in a nice soft cloth before you put it in its case under the bed and it'll be fine.

That's reminded me : I also have a tin whistle (in D), and one harmonica : no idea what make, or where it comes from. I can't play it though ...

My list is extremely short

Have:
1 digital piano
1 pedal harp
(Technically, I also own the grand piano which lives at my mum's...)

Want:
1 new flat/house (to accommodate a grand piano)
1 cello or double bass
Possibly 1 flute

I'm looking to move soon and my priorities are:

1) Room for a grand piano of some description
2) Decent sized Kitchen
3) Commute into London of < 1hr

Am I the only person who absolutely reflexively went "Totus Floreo" on reading this?

Quickie edit: remembering more instruments! A bunch of educational percussion and somehow I forgot about the bagpipes, well done person who reminded me.

Instruments do seem to breed, don't they? Not as bad as music stands, though, I could start my own orchestra!