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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #60 on: September 20, 2013, 10:19:53 AM »
I'm now learning "Natural High" by Hammerfall. Sounds pretty cool, i think the band is Finnish or Latvian ( not so sure about that :P ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5ZL-C5CZE

I've got a guitarist playing with me as well of course, sort of sounds a bit boring with just drums :)


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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #61 on: October 21, 2013, 02:52:01 PM »
Fiddle/violin- reasonably OK, haven't played anything solo and classical for over 5 years now, though I do still play in orchestras and do folk stuff.

I've also got various odd instruments lying around: a bodhran and a hexaharmonica, both of which I need to get better at, and a bombard which I need to get a reed for and learn how to play.

EDIT: Apparently the thing I call a hexaharmonica is actually a Hohner Sextet.
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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #62 on: October 23, 2013, 11:47:55 PM »
Ooh, bodhrans are fun. I was privileged enough to see flook over the summer, the bodhran solo by their guy was stunningly good.  :)

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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #63 on: October 24, 2013, 09:29:37 AM »
Thanks! Bodhrans are indeed a lot of fun, but I'm kind of embarrassed to play mine given how good a lot of the people I know are- and I'm not sure whether it's my technique or whether the skin is slippery, but I find it hard to reliably get a sound rather than a scrape out of it. Also, I'm not a guitarist and guitar experience makes it easier to learn the bodhran...

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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #64 on: October 24, 2013, 09:50:01 AM »
Never heard of it and I can't be bothered Googleing it. Please enlighten me, what is a Bodhran?
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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #65 on: October 24, 2013, 10:28:23 AM »
It's a fairly large celtic (Irish/Scots mainly) drum;

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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #66 on: January 21, 2015, 04:26:46 PM »
Currently waiting for my piano pupil to arrive, playing lullaby versions of Concerning Hobbits and the Sleeping Beauty Waltz by ear (or trying to :P )

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Re: What instrument do you play?
« Reply #67 on: January 21, 2015, 04:55:19 PM »
I need too buy autoharp strings, but they're expensive and I am lacking in monies :(
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