Does anyone here play a music instrument?

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Do you play a music instrument?

Yes, a bit. Not very well.
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Yes, I am rather good at my instrument/s.
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No, I don't play one but I would like to.
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No, I don't play one and I don't mind.
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7%
 
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marckrsh
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Post by marckrsh »

Music and origami both seem to exploit that left and right brain integration thing. As for myself, I dabbled with the piano, and I like to play guitar. I just posted a silly video of me tuning my instrument on Youtube.
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Does singing count...?
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I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't play any musical instrument... not even the triangle!
My girlfriend, ehm wife, always makes fun of me when I sing. And when she corrects me, it all sounds the same. I'm tone deaf also. And have selective hearing to back that up!
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Is anyonelse auditioning for the Youtube Symphony
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Post by barakboom »

I am a violist :D
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Post by topsu »

I have played the piano for 7 years, but i dont spend much time on it.
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bagpipes, bass clarinet, and working on piano

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have been playing bagpipes for 5 years and i am doing great on it ,going into city band shortly. played bass clarinet till freshman year too much time taken so i had more origami time. and just pickeup piano .
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Guitar!! I have been trying to get me madre to get me an electric guitar (prefferably the synyster gates custom), but it just won't happen...ive been playing for about 3 years, and can play some pretty complex stuff, like the bat country guitar solo (most of it, but it sounds lame on an acoustic
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I began studying origami 2,5 years ago, then began to learn to play the piano and write music ...
This is my play, I hope it is not too bad ..
Brahms - Capriccio ...

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Post by WhisperPuffin »

Wow anermak, I can't believe you're that good and still have time for all your amazing origami! :shock:
Bibbleyboopalah!

A Whisper of Puffins (my Flickr)
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Post by Bumblefoot »

I've been playing for a while now. I play guitar a little and am trying to teach myself how to play the violin (tough instrument)

Most of the stuff I play is by guys like Shawn Lane and Guthrie Govan.

^InsaneOrigami: Yeah those Scetcher guitars are cool looking. Although I don't listen to a huge amount of metal, some of my friends do, so I learned to play most of Afterlife by A7X. I haven't heard Bat Country though.
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WhisperPuffin wrote:Wow anermak, I can't believe you're that good and still have time for all your amazing origami! :shock:
:D Thanks!!!!
in fact, origami for me just a hobby, I do music anymore.
This is one of my own works - from the old.
Ballad. :)

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Post by InsomniacFolder »

anermak - very impressive playing of the Brahms in particular.
Your technique reminds me of another great Russian pianist - Evgeny Kissin

I also love that pianos sound - and your expressive touch.

Any chance of you playing some Rachmaninov (Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов)? Perhaps the, very difiicult, G minor prelude Op 23, № 5; or the beautiful E-Flat Op 23, № 6?

Keep up your beautiful playing but find the odd moment for more origami!
"Had we but world enough and time..."
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Post by anermak »

InsomniacFolder wrote:
Any chance of you playing some Rachmaninov (Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов)? Perhaps the, very difiicult, G minor prelude Op 23, № 5; or the beautiful E-Flat Op 23, № 6?
Thanks a lot!!! :oops:
You right it's a really brilliant rachmaninoff preludes, i think i will play them in future /
My teacher now give me other rachmaninoff preludes for playing 32-1; 32-12; 32-5 and Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor (3 parts). In this time i work in it. In winter I will choose 23-5,23-6 :wink:
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Post by InsomniacFolder »

I love the 32-1 prelude, and the "Tempest" sonata, especially the adagio.
Perhaps when you have learned them you can post here too?
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