YAY!! Tonight i got an oboe. I have bee playing the violin for 7 years now, and my violin teacher's daughter plays the oboe. She got a new one, and she wanted her old on to go to a safe place, so she let me buy it!!

Im really excited. I can already play lots of notes, and can all ready play a simple scale.

I cannot wait until i start taking lessons!!

Well, thats all i wanted to say.

Thanks for reading this!!

Chris :D

I love woodwind! I play clari. :D

i use to play violin but i dont anymore :ashamed: lol

Cool! Getting something new is always exciting =D

i play the oboe!! it's weird how i've been playing it for a few years now but it's still fun for me! :lol: you know, the best kind of reeds to get are the ones with the black thread. that means they're french, and they are always excellent reeds. they are a bit on the expensive side though, about 15 dollars each. but i think they're worth it :D

Justa violist. Wouldn't know. But I really want my own viola.

For some reason I constantly chip my reeds. I am very careless lol.

i chip mine too! it sucks! :(

I just snap guitar strings, like the other day lol. Occasionally a violin string too. My E doesn't have a ball, so the question isn't if, but rather when.

Violin for 7 years, Guitar for 4.

Congrats on the Oboe Chris :P

Congratulations, Chris :).

I can't play anything. I really want to learn how to play the guitar though.

The Oboe is my favourite instrument, along with the piano :)
I don't play any instruments though. With my musical talent, or rather, the lack of it, my neighbours are grateful for that.

haha. my oboe is very loud, i'm sure my neighbors secretly despise me :D i always wondered who's dog left a little present on our lawn :confusion

MY DAD BROKE MY REED!!!!! I can't play it until i get a new one, 'cos it was my only one :crying:

Im really annoyed!!

You play oboe?! (or learning to play...) I do too! YEAH! You're my hero! :D I've been playing for almost 5 years (points to avatar). It's a lot of work (I swear, I'm a slave to mine) and v. difficult at first. My dog hid under the bed the first time I played at home. '^^ Good luck! Hope you get a new reed soon!

hahah poor doggy ;) rosekeet, are you in a band/orchestra of some sort?

by the by, how did your dad manage to break your reed? :)

I play guitar, acoustic and electric. not much into the woodwinds lol

i play guitar! guitar is fun :D but i'm not very good :( what kind(s) do you have?

You play oboe?! (or learning to play...) I do too! YEAH! You're my hero! :D I've been playing for almost 5 years (points to avatar). It's a lot of work (I swear, I'm a slave to mine) and v. difficult at first. My dog hid under the bed the first time I played at home. '^^ Good luck! Hope you get a new reed soon!

I remember our bands' oboe's when they first played. They sounded like ducks. XD

mine are yamahas lol im getting customs for christmas we're going to new york :D , i also have a guitar which is native to where i'm from which is the cuatro i know the basic stuff like orocovis, seis mapeye, bordonua, requinto, dicimas, aquinaldo, jibaro, and the contradanza. My favorite is Orocovis though it's a gorgeous tune :) oh yeah you can't forget tumbao, zapateao, bombeao, and enojao lol puerto rican slang words haha

I just snap guitar strings, like the other day lol. Occasionally a violin string too. My E doesn't have a ball, so the question isn't if, but rather when.



I've broken two strings. Both D's, both one straight after the other.

somebody teach me plena or danza my grandfather teaches me over the phone from puerto rico :lol:


elena tamao bonbon toma bonbon elena..........

Woohoo! Getting a new instrument is always exciting. :)

I got a black saxophone for my birthday last year, but haven't even played it until band this year. :blush: I also have a violin, acoustic and electric guitar, a keyboard, and the small stuff like harmonica, fife, and ocarina. Hehe, I like collecting instruments, even if I don't know how to play them. :blush:

The next instuments I want to get and learn to play is the oboe and basoon though. They look so fun. ^_^

I wanna cello too, but fat chance of me ever getting one until after I leave college. My parents have already said they'll get me a viola before I go to college. I love the one I have though. I've even given it a title: Viola da Morte (guess what it means) :hehe:

I love stringed instruments but I dont wanna play a cielo or anything like that. Or drum type intruments with the exception of my guiro and guicharro

i want an electric guitar but if i get one, i'd have to get an amp, and a guitar + amp is pretty expensive :( i gotta convince my parents to get me that for my birthday :D [i guess i won't be getting a flash maker thing this year then *sigh*]

lol Yeah it does get pretty expensive and also if you want goodies and stuff like a wah wah pedal :D But im not even going there (long story) :lol:

hahah what's a wah wah pedal? er.. what does it sound like? :lol:

it sounds like wah wah? :lol: while you play the guitar and have the wah wah pedal with it, the sounds coming out have a "wah wah" character to them. Like have you ever heard Burning of the Midnight Lamp by jimi hendrix or Vodoo Child i think using a vox wah wah (vox is the first company that accidentally created the wah wah pedal)


http://www.emplive.com/audio/create/pedals/wah_burning_andrew_wah_56.asx

notice how different the guitar sounds with it?

hahaha accidentally. that's cool i want one! if i get an electric guitar and amp, i'm definately gonna go for all those distortion things :D

has anyone heard of/ played the moog? those things are cool :)

I love how Jimi Hendrix used the wah wah pedal it's awesome :)

arg, five minute limit, here's the moog: www.moogmusic.com

i play guitar! guitar is fun :D but i'm not very good :( what kind(s) do you have?

-Student Ovation Celebrity Acoustic
-Cort M1200 (My Baby :P:P:P:P)
-DiMarzio Custom (My dad bought all guitar parts and assembled them to make a guitar. And I can never get rid of it, it's my first guitar. NEVER RID YOUSELF OF YOUR FIRST GUITAR!)
-Jay Turser Jazzmaster

Plus my dad has like 25ish that he's accumulated throughout his 40 years of playing lol.

wowww that's so cool! can i have one?? ;)

jk, unless of course you wouldn't mind :P

Now I want a sitar and a koto :lol:

I want to learn how to play the guitar and the harp.

And I want an electric violin.

ooh harp=beautiful! i've always wanted to play that, but they're SO expensive!!

And think of how many strings you'd have to tune...

ahh! that is my nightmare. 6 is enough for me :P

just wondering, how many strings would i have to tune?

Fourty-six. :eek:

i found this:

Harp Size Number of Strings
Large 36-38
Medium 32-35
Small 23-31
Travel 19-22

sheesh! even the small ones have a lot!

I want to learn how to play the guitar and the harp.

And I want an electric violin.

whoa those things look totally awesome

i found this:

Harp Size Number of Strings
Large 36-38
Medium 32-35
Small 23-31
Travel 19-22

sheesh! even the small ones have a lot!

an orchestral harp has 46.Therefore: it's very big...

haha tuning is annoying me right now. With all the different music I like, one of my guitars is in standard, one is dropped a whole step, one is dropped two whole steps! And I have to tune them up and down and up and down. but practice is practice. I had to make index cards to make sure. THIS GUITAR IS IN: E-A-D-G-B-e (STANDARD). XD.

I use a guitar tuner to tune my viola, which is fine, except for the fact that I need a C and it doesn't have that. But I hate tuning in winter, because the pegs slip and then the fine-tuners are all stiff...:mad:

I love woodwind! I play clari. :D


whoo... clarinets are SOOO much better than oboes... lol... just kidding... nah I love the oboe... it is really cool... me presonaly I love the clarinet... but that is just because I have played it a long time :D .... wel congrats on the new instrument!

oboe is the best :) you can't charm a snake with a clarinet, can you? NO! :lol:

I got my guitar and amp used, so it didn't cost so much. I want to get a wah wah petal though, those things look so fun. :D

Hey, has anyone ever played that game for Playstation called UmJammer Lammy? xD That game is so odd...I love it. You get a wah wah too. ;)

i found this:

Harp Size Number of Strings
Large 36-38
Medium 32-35
Small 23-31
Travel 19-22

sheesh! even the small ones have a lot! I have a small one, I think it's called a cymbal?
I got it when I was little.
It's com-ple-te-ly out of tune these days (and I have noooooo idea how to tune it), and I'm cruel enough to hand it over to little kids coming to visit. They never complain, and just play with it.
Bet my neighbours are pleased with that :D

I managed to snap my electric guitar string :crying: the E string was out fo whack but no it just had to snap and my hand huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrttssss :crying:

awwww poor cherchez :(

i've never snapped a string. how does it happen? i'm very nice to my guitar :D

Well sometimes you can tighten your strings too much or it just happens randomly. I'm nice to my electric guitar no bashing on it or anything but it will snap occasionally :crying: *bashes guitar* I usually curse at it and threaten it to a dump yard :D

I recently had to get all my viola stings changed because they went "false"-ie, no amount of tuning could get them back in tune...stupid rental instruments...*apologizes to the viola da morte*

lol I'm not putting the strings back in and tuning until tomorrow. I dont think i can do that with my hand yet, i can almost barely type lol

Yeah snapping is NOT fun. I was lucky last time, I was playing, and instead of snapping, my tune-Lok loosened somehow and it pretty much fell out. Well I don't wanna say fell out because it still snapped back and hit my hand, but it barely left a mark that time. I didn't even feel any pain. I was just "Darnit! Now I have three string packs that will be missing an E!!!"


I got my guitar and amp used, so it didn't cost so much. I want to get a wah wah petal though, those things look so fun. :D



Oh they're fun. As cherchez will say, Kung Fu Fighting through a wah sounds awesome. And E Major Scale XD

Oh yes both sound truly awesome on a wah wah pedal :D don't get me started well TOO LATE!!!


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wah wah WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

my dad bought me a new reed!! yay! now i can play the oboe all night long! (not that i will, its just that i will be able to :lol: )

chris

One of my good friends plays the harp. It looks really hard. I always admired pianists because they could play a different rhythm with each hand. Harps kinda the same way I guess. I have a little lap harp, but I don't think that counts... Oh and a tonet! It only plays like 5 notes but it's great.

I just started piano this year. It seems really hard at first to play two different things with each hand, but it's really not once you get the hang of it. Then it becomes hard to do the same thing with each hand!

I just came from UIL Competitions and they gave me my rating I'm os happy I made a ONE :D

wow! that is great! My sister made a 1 too! She is going to state with her flute... her friend made a 3 though 0_0 I felt really bad for her!

What class did your sister do? Class One's go to state and get a medal, Class Two and Three's get medals. I did a class two song so i'm not going to state. Next year i'll do a class one and i have to practice really hard for it lol

she did a class one song and she memorized it 0_0 so she is going to state.... she was sooo happy!
welll I think that is right...lol... I haven't competed in it yet... but all I know is she is going to state..heh

oooh the oboe I have a few friends that play it hehe.

I play the clarinet and bass clarinet. I like playing the clarinet though because it's so much more interesting, the parts that we get to play and stuff. On the bass clarinet all I play is bass lines and I'm forced to play it for band because there are no other bass clarinet players in band. *sigh*