Hiya, just felt like doing a new poll. By thae way don't be embarrased. I just feel like knowing!

I think I was 10... I chose 10 anyway.

Although I can't really imagine a 3 year old playing a flute, mostly because of the length, I mean, I know you get bend heads but for a 3 year old it would probably have to be bent double!

yeah i dont know why i put 3 down.

I started the recorder when I was 6/7, but only started the flute at 13. I'd wanted to start before that but was on the waiting list for a year before I could get a teacher. It was worth it, though - my teacher is strict but really good! I'm not embarrased to say that I started at 13, because I made it to grade 6 standard in less than 3 years !

Yeah who cares what age you start at. I just put it in case anyones is shy which they probably wont be. Well done on getting so far in three years. By the way I started flute 3/4 years ago. It was piano I started at 6 but I thought I was on Viva Piano.

17 heehee

I started the flute when I was 7/8 I think

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Jan 17 2005, 08:23 PM)

17 heehee

by the way what is grade 9 thing?

I can be exact - my 13th birthday, which is when I had my first flute as my present!

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by the way what is grade 9 thing?

It's a joke. Grade 9 doesn't exist, and to get the "woohoo" joke (which has become ubiquitous!) look for a thread called Prizenight (I think it was in the General Discussion Forum). You might want to look at the Holly Williams thread too, but it might be a bit intimidating at the lenght it's reached!

I started flute at 18 (it was my 18th birthday present) but I started clarinet at 11.
There was a girl at school who used to throw people out of the music practice rooms claiming she needed to practice for her grade 9 exam!

I was 13 when I started the flute, 14 when I switched to the clarinet and 43 when I finally took up the flute again! Still, as someone said on another thread, you're never too old to learn.

I was 7.

lol Catrin!

16, I bought it with my Christmas money last year. I'm only playing it for fun though, so I'm not having lessons!

I was 10. I makes me feel rather a lot better about what level I have managed to reach, when I've only been playing for 6 years, and for 2 1/2 years of that I was with pretty awful peri-teachers, group taught in school.

So I should be proud of where I am. As should we all!

I was 7 when I first started learning

QUOTE (tamsin @ Jan 19 2005, 01:40 PM)

I was 10. I makes me feel rather a lot better about what level I have managed to reach, when I've only been playing for 6 years, and for 2 1/2 years of that I was with pretty awful peri-teachers, group taught in school. So I should be proud of where I am. As should we all!

Exactly Tamsin! I'm so glad you've realised that!!!

erm ..... where is 11 - 12

thts where i come in

28 I think.

I was 11 when I started the sax. but I couldnt vote for that.
I am 14 and have just started the clarinet

I was 14 when I started the clarinet, but had one year of trombone tuition before that (wierd switch huh? )

QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Feb 12 2005, 12:02 AM)

I was 11 when I started the sax. but I couldnt vote for that. I am 14 and have just started the clarinet

i thought this was a flute forum

QUOTE (fluty tute @ Feb 12 2005, 10:31 AM)

QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Feb 12 2005, 12:02 AM) I was 11 when I started the sax. but I couldnt vote for that. I am 14 and have just started the clarinet i thought this was a flute forum

sorry. *runs away very quickly*

i just wondered why you were here lol

its ok us flautists aren't really like tht but i would watch out we can be very nasty when we want to (no offence to anyone of you flautists that aren't like that) i just like to scare people sometimes by my remarks



ok i 'll hide now
won't embarress you decent flautists anymore

Hey! There aren't options for 11 and 12!

If we're talking specifically woodwind, the answer is 24.

I was 29

Started recorder at 4

With recorder, I was 5. My mum bought me one in town and then taught me the notes on the way home in the back of a taxi! No way would I let my children play a recorder in the car!!!

11 but I can't vote for that

11 when I started oboe. But as it has been mentioned there isn't an option for that.

I think I was 7 when I first started playing the rcorder though.

I was 11 as well. Taking up the flute was one of the best things I ever did.

Recorder when I was 7, treble recorder when I was 9 but they were just in primary music classes and I haven't played them for years. I started Clarinet when I was 10 though

I was 13 when I started the clarinet.

I started violin at 11 and flute at 15

Recorder aged 9. Took grade 2 decant age 10, grade 3 Treble age 11 and grade 4 descant age 12.

Was only 7 when started the clarinet!

12 for piano and started the flute aged 17.

Have got a saxophone and would like to play Violin one day!!!!!!!!!!!

I was 11 when I started flute- I'm 15 now and grade 7. I've started clarinet a couple of months ago and I'm reeeeeally struggling with anything above the lower register!!!

Started flute in year 10...about 14? (can't count backwards from 16...that's horrendous!) and I love it so much! 'Tis my baby! *grins*

Guitar at 7, but I never really enjoyed that.

Clarinet at 14, liked it for a bit, gone off it now

Piano 14 and 1/2, still love it. Although it's not going well at the moment...

I was 13 and a half to be precise when I started the clarinet, which means I must have done two exams in one year at times! (I'm now nearly 18). Then I decided to start Alto saxophone when I was 15 and a half, and then started baritone just over a year ago!

I was 8 when I first started playing my flute, but stopped for a while and then took it up again when I was 15, along with piano and singing 3 months later.

I started recorder when I was 6/7 ish so I found it really easy to move onto clarinet, as I could read music. But then I got confused because the fingerings were different, and now have the same problem again with sax!

A better question may be how old were you when you started Practicing

I WISH I had started as a teenager, however i was the grand old age of 41 when I picked up a sax (or any instrument!) for the 1st time. You are never too old to learn and have fun.

Singing lessons 35, piano (restart) 37, violin and recorder (restart) 38.

Recorder 6
Clarinet 7
Piano 15
Viola 15

Flute, sax, violin and singing - all mid/late 20s. I love them all! (But I teach clarinet, sax, recorder and a bit of piano)

Clarinet : 8

Saxophone: 16

Flute : 16

Recorder : slightly more complicated, started at 5, played 'til I was about 17-18ish, then largely stopped as flute, saxophone and (especially) clarinet took up more and more of my time. Restarted as part of the forum activities earlier this year! (at 32).

Why do your options jump from age 10 to teenager (13-16)?

Are 11 and 12 year olds teenagers?

I can't vote on this because I was 11 when I started. There isn't an 11 option.