What Instrument do You Play?

My voice. I am singing Rachmaninov as part of a group the next two Sundays, in conjunction with a St. Petersburg Festival in Maryland.

I studied piano as a child for about 8 years and cello for 3 (around the same time.) Left them both for electric guitar as a teenager, for fun, and euphonium in the High School band. Studied shakuhachi in my twenties and now full circle back to the piano for the last 5 or so years. My system actually got me back to the piano by re-discovering my love of classical music and immersion in G.Gould's recordings. I think I aspired to be a classical pianist, as a youth, but stopped mentioning it when my brothers kept saying: "what!? a classical penis?"

Drums, cymbals, sounds, gongs.....I really focus in on the percusion instruments. I can tell alot about a system with familiar recordings and knowing the drums sonic signature. I only wish to be the one on those recordings while listening to them on my system. Keep on jamming!

Mostly guitar and some bass. Played with various rock & roll bands over the years, but don't think of myself as what I consider to be a true musician, just a player who's not really as good as people seem to think. I've never worked too hard at it, though I started when I was 11 and took lessons for a few years, but the music I like to play generally doesn't require much real virtuousity anyway. I particularly like to compose my own music (though I can no longer write or read it), but since I'm not a singer or a lyricist, don't actually produce finished works on my own. My other musical ambition is to one day get a drumset, and learn to do more than just barely get by with rudimentary beats as I do now. I am positive that playing has had an effect on how I listen to music, but I couldn't tell you if or how that might translate into any of my system choices.

All percussion instruments. High School Band. College Band. Navy School of Music. US Naval Academy Band, etc. Like mostly classical, movie soundtracks.