I am taking a statistics GCSE this year and am basing my coursework on music and need some information to be able to carry out this coursework. I would be very greatful if you could fill in the below fields for your main instrument (the one you began to learn first)

Are you male or female?

What instrument do you play?

How old were you when you took it up?

How long have you been playing?

What grade are you?

Are you male or female? Girl

What instrument do you play? Piano

How old were you when you took it up? 6

How long have you been playing? 7 years

What grade are you? 6

Not exact only the girl, piano and 6 i am sure about lol.

Male

Bassoon/ jazz basssoon /contrabassoon

12

4/5

8+

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Violin

How old were you when you took it up? Nine

How long have you been playing? Five and a half years

What grade are you? Working for grade 8

Female

Piano

43 (old!)

8yrs

Just done Gr 6 (no results yet...)


(Good luck with the coursework - Interesting topic!)

Male

Piano and cello

Started piano at 4, cello at 9

Hmm....I'm 13 so piano for 9 years, cello 4 years

I think I'm post gr 8 but not at DipABRSM level yet. My repertoire is not "even", e.g. I can play Chopin etudes already but not a single Bach fugue. For cello I'm around gr 8, too.

Are you male or female? female

What instrument do you play? harp (main)

How old were you when you took it up? 8

How long have you been playing?5 years

What grade are you? 7th or 8th

Are you male or female? male

What instrument do you play? clarinet, cornet bassoon

How old were you when you took it up? 6

How long have you been playing?12 years

What grade are you? 8 (clarinet) ,7 (cornet) ,7 (bassoon)

Female

Flute and piano...recorder

flute at 15, piano at 17, recorder primary 3

mmmm 3-4 years (not including recorder)

flute (5). piano (5) . recorder (no grade..just side instrument)

Female

Piano

51 (v old!)

3.5 years

No exams taken yet, but playing g4/5/6 stuff (will start with g4 exam when I pluck up the courage!)

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Flute

How old were you when you took it up? 8

How long have you been playing? 7 years

What grade are you? 7

Are you male or female? Male

What instrument do you play? Flute

How old were you when you took it up? 10

How long have you been playing? 11 years

What grade are you? post grade 8

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Flute and piano

How old were you when you took it up? 10 and 14 respectively

How long have you been playing? 7 and 3 years respectively

What grade are you? 6 and 2 respectively!

Good luck with the statistics GCSE! I got a C with all of about 4 lessons.

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Flute

How old were you when you took it up? 13

How long have you been playing? 3 years

What grade are you? Taking grade 6 in March

Good luck with the course work!

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Violin

How old were you when you took it up? Four years and seven months

How long have you been playing? 12 years and 11 months

What grade are you? took Grade 8 in 2000 got distinction

By the way, I do also play the piano and did play the keyboard, but I just filled out the form for my main instrument. Is that ok?

god which instrument am i supposed to put hmmmmmmmmm?

female

piano

17

since i was 9

6

Natalie, you need to put the FIRST instrument you learnt, otherwise it will distort the outcome of the survey! I know that others have put other instruments too, but the person who began the thread did ask specifically for the first instrument.

For the sax, you already knew how to read music, and of course playing the clarinet will have helped an awful lot with tone production and how to play generally. If you'd started the sax with absolutely no prior musical knowledge (unable to read music etc) you'd have taken a lot longer than 6 months to get to Grade 6!

PS You know that I don't mean this in a nasty way!!

Male

Piano

6 years old

62 years

Grade 8+ but didn't take exams after Grade 5

Good luck with your research.

Male


Piano


44 (hence the silver!)


10 years


Passed (just!) grade 6 last March

Are you male or female? male

What instrument do you play? piano

How old were you when you took it up? 5

How long have you been playing? 7 years

What grade are you? 7th

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Cornet

How old were you when you took it up? 15

How long have you been playing? 7 years

What grade are you? 6

Are you male or female? female

What instrument do you play? piano

How old were you when you took it up? seven

How long have you been playing? eight years

What grade are you? just passed grade 8, working for DipABRSM now.

Good luck with ur stats GCSE, I'm doing it too! I only found out a couple of weeks ago though!

QUOTE (cecilia @ Dec 30 2004, 11:13 PM)

Are you male or female? Female What instrument do you play? Violin How old were you when you took it up? Nine How long have you been playing? Five and a half years What grade are you? Working for grade 8

I couldn't help but pick up on this, but I think you made a mistake. If you took it up at 9 and played for 5.5 year, then you're not yet 15, but since you're doing your AS levels I suspect that that's not true.

Are you male or female? Female

What instrument do you play? Piano

How old were you when you took it up? 13

How long have you been playing? 5 years

What grade are you? LRSM (or thereabouts, not taken exam yet)

male
piano
45
10 months
grade1


Taking grade 2 feb/march 05

Good luck with the gcse

male

piano

16

just learn it for 1 1/4 year.

currently grade 3 1/2.but taking grade 4 exam this year.

QUOTE (Music Lover @ Dec 30 2004, 10:36 PM)

Are you male or female? What instrument do you play? How old were you when you took it up? How long have you been playing? What grade are you?

i'm a female and i started playing the piano at 5....since i'm 17...i've been playing for 12 years....but still....i'm still practising for my diploma exam in the future...

QUOTE (Music Lover @ Dec 30 2004, 10:36 PM)

Are you male or female? What instrument do you play? How old were you when you took it up? How long have you been playing? What grade are you?

Female, Flute, 11, 3 n a half years, 6

Always happy to help

QUOTE

I couldn't help but pick up on this, but I think you made a mistake. If you took it up at 9 and played for 5.5 year, then you're not yet 15, but since you're doing your AS levels I suspect that that's not true.

I think that Cecilia is doing some AS Levels early

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 2 2005, 04:03 PM)

QUOTE I couldn't help but pick up on this, but I think you made a mistake. If you took it up at 9 and played for 5.5 year, then you're not yet 15, but since you're doing your AS levels I suspect that that's not true. I think that Cecilia is doing some AS Levels early

If my memory serves me correctly, Cecilia is taking GCSE's, and music AS level, having taken GCSE music last year. Feel free to correct me though.

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Jan 2 2005, 04:07 PM)

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 2 2005, 04:03 PM) QUOTE I couldn't help but pick up on this, but I think you made a mistake. If you took it up at 9 and played for 5.5 year, then you're not yet 15, but since you're doing your AS levels I suspect that that's not true. I think that Cecilia is doing some AS Levels early If my memory serves me correctly, Cecilia is taking GCSE's, and music AS level, having taken GCSE music last year. Feel free to correct me though.

Doesn't that still make her either 15 or 16 then, not 14?

Helen and Nicki are right. I took up the violin the June before I turned ten, and I was fifteen this September. I am in Year 10 doing the first year of my GCSEs, but I took music GCSE last year and now I'm taking the AS level. Sorry if that confused anyone!

Are you male or female? female

What instrument do you play? piano
How old were you when you took it up? 10

How long have you been playing? 4 years

What grade are you? Grade 5

Good luck with your GCSE's!

Are you male or female? Male

What instrument do you play? Flute

How old were you when you took it up? 43 (depressing thought!)

How long have you been playing? Just over a year

What grade are you? Working towards Grade 3

Also learnt clarinet when I was at school. Good luck with the GCSEs!

Are you male or female? Male

What instrument do you play? Alto sax

How old were you when you took it up? 11

How long have you been playing? 4 years

What grade are you? 5/6

Are you male or female? - female

what instrument do you play? - piano

how old were you when you took it up? - 11

how long have you been playing? - 2 years

what grade are you? - working towards grade 2

OOPS sorry

ill edit

Are you male or female? - female

what instrument do you play? -violin

how old were you when you took it up? - 8

how long have you been playing? - 7 years

what grade are you? - grade 5-ish

Are you male or female? - female

what instrument do you play? - piano

how old were you when you took it up? - almost 3

how long have you been playing? - 13 1/2 yrs.

what grade are you? - grade 8