Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments

edhead4098 posts06-27-2020 2:09pm

Might want to replace those strings though.

A buddy use to come over and he loved to repair and trick out all kinds of stringed gettups. Could tear up a banjo, turn right around and play stairway to heaven. That’s where a lot of my things came from..His house is full of STUFF. He’s up in Washington, now..

He kept me in my trivial need, I kept his 31 Ford coupe, with the old 462 Lincoln going... (Fuel suckin monster).

Tell the truth, my fingers are just too wore out, any more to tinker.

A set down with my grandson on the old piano goes much better.
I got a pic of him doing a Jerry Lee Lewis, for grandpa.. He’s 5 LOL

Regards

Wonderful replies from both sides of the coin..For those who CAN really play I know & understand full well how much dedication it takes to be good at anything.
I am U.S.Army Master Diver-Engineer(00B-50)Retired,as well as former NAUI Tech Dive Instructor..I have,since the age of 3 when I fell into the deep end of an unattended back yard pool & self rescued,logged almost 40,000 hours in the underwater world.Despite all my vast experience,a novice sport SCUBA Diver can see 90% of the wonders of the undersea world that I have seen,and gain a much better understanding of the water world than someone who simply watches Jacques Cousteau or Into the Blue over & over....
The book recommendation,fascinating,thanks..
For those who,as someone replied,punishes themselves playing around I remember Bruce Lee"Don’t fear the man who practices 1000 techniques,fear the man who practices 1 technique 1000 times"...

My voice is my instrument. I have an hour of study a week with my vocal coach and put in another 2 or so hours a week singing. Working on a Radiohead song at the moment. 

“I love flamingo...

LOL then I bet you’d love flamenco music. 
Cheers 

In my teens I used to play the violin in the school orchestra. I scraped through grade 8  (see what I did there!). It must have shaped my listening preferences as I very much prefer sitting in the middle of the music, and my Bryston sp3 splits the music up round the room very well.
I also look for authentic sounds like piano decay and for example listening to Bix Biedebecker picking out a cornet instead of a trumpet.
Why, does it make a difference? The players obviously consider the subtle difference important too.
The genuineness of the sound is important to me and synthetic music just grates. Pressing a keyboard and different sounds coming out at  a press of a button does not appeal.
The mix of guitars in Rod Stewart's Mandolin Wind always gets me querying how many guitars are playing in the instrumental sections.
On that note (see, I did it again) a big question to you audiophiles ........ How many guitars (or of that genre) are playing on Mandolin Wind? I say 3 but a guitar playing friend said 4. It has been bugging me for 40 years or so! Please put me out of my misery!
Again I suppose, most music listeners don't care but to some of us such things are dear to our hearts.