Category: Jam Session
There are plenty of piano and guitar players and singers on here, but I'm wondering about more unusual instruments. Does anyone play anything like the accordion, banjo, tuba, tin whistle, bagpipes, or anything else you can think of? I play the harmonica (not that unusual but not too many people play it anymore), the spoons, the jawharp, and am working on the tin whistle.
I have had a go at my brother's Bagpipes with little success infernal instrument.smile..
I play the spoons sometimes, lol! I could probably do washboards too. Would the recorder be considered unusual, you know, the flute thingy, I play that. And I play some drums that I don't even know the name of. One set is made out of ceramic with leather stretched over it. The other is a two-headed drum with a rope tied to it that if you hold it in one hand and shake it, the knot on the rope will hit the drum. I also have one of those drums that's a big wooden box with cracks in it and you hit the cracks with little round rubber mallets.
I play anything I can get my hands on (well certainly not ) I use bongos and actually use the Roland HandSconic electronic drum pad that comes with 600 different drum sounds instead of using all these little hand drum thingy, tamborine and shaking instrument stuff I use quite a bit and I also use messed up guitar effects to make the sound very spacey.
my major at college is accordion, although most of what i do on it is classical and jazz. can't really get excited about british folk music. The Eastern european stuff is fantastic though
I got a fiddle for Christmas a couple of years ago, but can't find anyone to give me lessons. Anyone have any suggestions?
Yes recorders count. They made us play those in music class in third grade, but I could never manage to get more than a squeak out of mine. And being an accordion major is pretty cool.
I also play the Bohdrain its a round drum played with a small stick rounded at each end The Bohdrain is traditionally used in Scottish and Irish folk music.
..But I'm trying to find a Hardinger, a Norwegian violin, you can hear this gorgeous instrument in the LOTR soundtrack for the 2 Towers...
Oh yeah I saw one of those in Ireland. Really cool sound.
they are fantastic and surprisingly hard to play especially after a few pints of Guinness.Smile
Texanb have you thought of putting an advert in the paper or on your local radio station asking for help to learn the violin...beware though its not easy and requires a lot of input and long hours of study...however the folk music is far freer and less rigid than classical...
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but what matters is that you enjoy the music and love the violin, otherwise its a chore....good luck ..smile.
I have, and kind of know how to play, a didgeridoo. Oy, I don't even know if that's spelled right... they're really cool Austrailian instruments.
Oh yeah, really cool sound on those.