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

One of the coolest CES shows, I evers attended, had a "LIVE" show, that was recorded, then played back to the same audience. The owner of the speaker company, was in the band... He never followed the rules, compared, to other speaker manufacturers. Pretty good percussion guy in an little Jazz Band. James B. from Ampzilla, stood in on Keyboards.

Me I tinker with everything from my mothers 130 year old upright piano, 3 different types of guitars, one really nice classical, they were fun to tinker with. I love flamingo... I gave up all the congas and hand strikers, years back, I still like pans and xylophones... It’s fun. I don’t have the wind any more, but I could tear up a mouth harp, with some pretty good blues. ALL the instruments, were gifts, I've never even bought a guitar string..

LOL I never learned to read music, BUT.. I could keep up... The sheet music was there so WE could remember the words..when we would sing a little backup, at the OLD family get togethers. 1960-80s

I was really into bagpipes, when I was in my 20s and 30s..My uncle taught me. He couldn't read a note. That was cool, too. He was GOOD..

Regards

Might want to replace those strings though.

I'm addicted to both playing musical instruments and listening to good audio, but despite the fact that both obsessions have to do with the love of music, society considers them very different beasts.  A lot of society thinks of audiophilia as nothing more than the wallet-emptying exercise of plugging a bunch of overpriced stuff together to get something they could easily get by pushing a button on their car radio.  These same gimlet-eared folks, however, will at least admit that getting good on a musical instrument does take discipline and resolve.

Fine instruments can cost less

How many 8-digit audiophile systems do you know of?

There’s lots of misunderstanding when it comes to how much a musical instrument costs. Yeah, the seven figure price of a Strad gets the publicity, but if you’re a working fiddler you can do more than fine when you got five figures in your pocket. A good Steinway grand can be gotten in the $60,000 neighborhood. I haven’t been to the Guitar Center lately but I’d be surprised if Gibson Les Pauls have made it into the five figure realm. Pre-CBS Stratocasters (the coveted ones) currently cost in the low five figures.