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Loads of percussion instruments various shapes and sizes

3 African Drums
Bongo Drums
Drum Kit
Mini Glockenspeil
Hammond Organ
Keyboard
Piano
Chalumeau
Bombarde
Various keys of Whistles
Plastic Irish FLute
Wooden Irish Flute
Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
2 Alto Saxophones
Tenor Sax
Baritone Saxophone
2 acustic Guitars
2 classical Guitars
2 Electric Guitars
Bass Guitar
Double Bass
2 Violins
Mandolin
Mandola
2 Ukeleles
Guitarlele
At least 2 Recorders of each size

There must be more....

Oh my word, I can't believe how many instruments you lot have! Don't ever invite me round - you'll never get rid of me.

In my house I have more instruments than I realised:

Viola
2 violins (one on loan from a friend who doesn't play himself but is keen to have the fiddle played)
Keyboard
Tin whistle
Wooden whistle
Fife - I don't know why I have this as I can't play it
Jew's harp
And in my car (for all those hours you spend at a standstill on the motorway), a mouth organ.

What do I dream of owning? Let's make the list a bit shorter and write what I DON'T dream of owning:
...

But at the top of the list of wants are clarinet, trombone, baby grand. Obviously, in my dreams I'd be able to play them too.

Oh yes, and my other slightly more bizarre dream is to run wild in a toyshop, buying all those brightly coloured glockenspiels and dinky little accordians that I was deprived of as a child. I'd love to get a crazy ensemble together and try to play proper music on children's toys...

Not all mine, but in the house there are
3 flutes
2 recorders, 1 descant and 1 tenor both wooden.
1 D and 1 F whistles.
1/2 size violin.
2 guitars.
1 piano.
1 red plastic kazoo, which I ought to put my foot on after the noise I made in Anglesey, just ask KatyJay.
Bev

4 guitars,
Bass guitar,
mouth organ,
Acoustic Piano,
Digital Piano
Keyboard,
Alto Saxophone
2 Violins,
Flute
3 recorders
a penny whistle


I would love to own a tenor sax (my orignal instrument)
a clarinet and I dream of owning a harp...... o the joy. Though I simply would not get time to learn it with all my piano study.

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Piccolo
Concert Flute
Alto Flute
a couple of table lamp flutes! But you can get a tune out of them.
Violin
Alto saxophone
Piano
a bunch of recorders somewhere in the house or lurking in the schools I used to teach in - just an ordinary general classroom teacher but did some extra curricular instrumental teaching. At least
I sopranino
1 descant
2 treble
1 tenor - all plastic
1plastic fife

Wish List
a beautiful tenor saxophone on sale in the Woodwind Shop
maybe later a baritone sax
a new set of wooden recorders as I might just have to accept my plastic ones are gone forever!
a HARP - no chance
a bassoon for my sixties! 7 years to go.

Well, for starters I can't see 'clarinet' on that list...

2 Clarinets
2 Kazoos
Swannee Whistle
Fife (Yamaha)

There has to be more but I can't think at the moment.

Would like a Cor Anglais of her own and a Soprano Sax Probably a few unrealistic things as well.

Strange as it may seem, as my life is organized around music and the piano, I have only a small Yamaha electric piano at home for occasional use, plus a couple of Hohner blues harps, and an Ibanez bass guitar (that technically belongs to my daughter).

Very deliberately there is no clarinet, viola, or guitar to tempt me away from valuable piano practice time.

Stranger still, while I appreciate nice pianos, and go on about Bosendorfers, I do not desperately lust for one.

I think I worked off the lust for nice things with a couple of nice houses (too much effort to pay for and maintain), fancy cars (they wear out, they cost a fortune, they get you into trouble - these days I'd rather cycle), and cameras (The photos I make with my one remaining 20 pound's worth of compact camera are every bit as good - or bad - as I used to make with bags full of expensive Nikon and Leica bodies and lenses).

So I just get on with practicing on whatever instrument is available.

Experience and wisdom is a fine thing

I have my lovely Steck piano, which I am very happy with, a Yamaha keyboard, only for when I cannot use the piano (it's in the living room), my daughter has another Yamaha keyboard (unweighted keys yeuk!) upstairs and I think we have a recorder somewhere in the house. Gave 3 unused recorders to some poor children in Africa a while ago, hope they are enjoying them

Also have a musicstand (not technically an instument ) and am expecting delivery of some sort of voice in the not too distant future

I have:
piano.
melodica.
tin whistle (not sure what type of music i am meant to play with it)

That's better



Tin whistles are used extensively in Celtic music. Can't recall if I put it on my list, but I have one somewhere, with a book of Celtic tunes. If you go to Ireland, you'll find many music shops will have a large section devoted to tin whistle music.

And do you play Swanee Kazoo? I just love that round, it cracks me up.

Hmm....
2 Trumpets (Plus too many mutes)
1 Upright Piano
3 Keyboards
1 Baritone Horn
3 Descant Recorders
6 Guitars
1 Bass Guitar
Double Bass (It belongs to my school, but it lives at my house )
1 Theremin (!!) (made from a kit - rubbish)
1 Mouth Organ



I Wish...
Well, let's see...
Piccolo Trumpet
Eb Trumpet
C Trumpet
Fluegelhorn
Low F Trumpet
Euphonium
Harpsichord (Which wouldn't go out of tune)
Organ (I play at church, but having one at home would be brilliant!)
CC Tuba
Valve Trombone
Bass Trombone
Minimoog Model D
Minimoog Voyager
Arp Oddessy
A Theremin that actually works and has a range of more than a minor third.
Another house to put all of them in
Timpani (I play occasionally for shows)
Percussion (loads of it!)(I play with the Auckland Wind Orchestra, and for shows)
Eb Horn
Need I continue?

I have a flute, piano , descant recorder and a melodian- not to bad seeing im 11!!



I want a saxaphone in my dreams!!!

I added a Cor Anglais! - no more holidays at lest for next 6 months....
But I just love its mellow sounds!

At the moment I have no instruments - having just moved to Manchester over the summer - but I can say what instruments I would like!

> An oboe (obviously, but I'll be getting another this month!)
> A clarinet (because I've learnt up to grade 1 and I want to get further!)
> A harp
> A cor anglais
> A (grand) piano
> Aaand a bass guitar - just because it would be cool to have one!

When Shan and I lived in NI, our house had:

> An oboe
> A flute
> A trombone
> A clarinet
> Three recorders
> Two acoustic guitars
> One electric giutars
> One drum kit
> Three sets of pan pipes
> An ocarina
> And, on occasion, a piccolo

I must have a grand piano at some point in the next few years I'll keep the Clavinova for quiet practice, though!

I've always fancied learning Bass Guitar too.

Fiddle (x2 - one Stentor and one decent one)
Electric fiddle
Mandolin
Tenor banjo
Acoustic guitar (Yamaha)
Electric guitar (Tele)
Flute (Yamaha)
Generation tin whistle in D

what would I like? hmm... well, i played a rather nice Oakwood octave mandola a few months ago, but at £2,000, i doubt i'll have one of those any time soon. i've been looking at a melodeon, but i should probably learn to play the instruments i already have first!

A grand piano would be incredible to have And I just adore the bass guitar - it's so much fun to write for, but it would be great to play too!

I know a very good clarinet teacher in your area. Sbhoa knows her very well too

She's a really good accompanist too

Instruments that live in our music room:

A Yamaha beginner flute with a silver headjoint (mine)
A Sankyo solid silver flute (my husband's)
A piccolo
A wooden recorder from when I was at school (recorder-playing was compulsory from Y7-9, in hindsight it must have been a total nightmare for the music teacher faced with 32 teenagers, half of whom couldn't read music and only about 4 out of the other half had ever played the recorder before...)
A plastic recorder from when my husband was at school
A fife
Two ocarinas (one in D, one in G)
A clavinova
My 1/4 size violin (gave up aged 11)
A rainstick!
About 5 tuning forks including the gold-plated-and-engraved-with-his-name one that some well-meaning friends gave to my husband for his 40th.

There are two identical five-octave keyboards gathering dust in the loft; one of them belongs to my mother and one of them is my husband's. We have no clue which is which!

Wish list:
a nicer flute for me
I would love to learn the cello but really don't have time.

We thought very hard about getting a real piano instead of a clavinova, but since I had about 5 piano lessons when I was about 17 and abandoned it (the teacher decided I was an "adult beginner" and insisted that I played pop songs from the 1970s which I had never heard of and absolutely hated, so I gave up after half a term), and my husband failed grade 5, we decided we couldn't really justify the expense of buying one and keeping it in tune etc.

It seems like a lot, but compared to some of you, we have hardly anything!

I have a grand piano. It's an upright but I think it's grand