I play the piano, but don't own one (only have a keyboard) and I own a guitar but can't play it.
Hmmm... somethings wrong somewhere :P

i play drums occasionally, and i'm learning how to play guitar. i've also been training myself to do death metal-style vocals

I'm seriously considering taking up learning guitar, my suster has an old accoustic that needs re-stringing so it would be a start. I guess Rock Band drums don't count?

I play elecrtic guitar, have done for 5 years, and do so in a shred-metal fasion

for those who care, i have a Gibson les Paul custom (retrofit with emg's) and a Dean FBD ML

I've been playing percussion for about 5 years now. I love marimba and the drumset, but my real affinity is the marching tenors.

nilpferdkoenig:

CSherman:
I play violin and I'm currently learning guitar.

Violin is an insturment of total perfection, you get my respect if you're good at that.
(and no, guitars are definatly not, you ever heard Nirvana?)

Yeah after eight years of violin learning guitar feels like cheating, frets are pretty damn easy.

I play banjo when I'm really bored. No good at it though.

I can play the acoustic guitar, the kalimba, the hulusi, and I have an erhu (which I never use.)

The kalimba is a West African instrument also known as the Mbira or thumb piano.

The hulusi is a free reed instrument played by the Dai peoples of Yunnan province, China.

The erhu is one of the most famous classical chinese instruments, and is often described as a fiddle.

For more information, check the articles on Wikipedia.

nilpferdkoenig:

CSherman:
I play violin and I'm currently learning guitar.

Violin is an insturment of total perfection, you get my respect if you're good at that.
(and no, guitars are definatly not, you ever heard Nirvana?)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8akmP6Sjv2o

You were saying what about guitar?

I play the Bagpipes and the guitar

TomNook:
Cleverly, you really can't count baritone and tuba as two different instruments as they're basically the same.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there Tom. They might be similar in America, but they are quite different in other countries (For example, Australia (Where I live) and England). I play a euphonium, but I used to play a baritone. If anything, a baritone is closer to a horn rather than a tuba, as the baritone has a smaller bore size and is generally more compact. A euphonium and tuba I can accept being basically the same (because they are), but not a baritone. Just as a quick reference, a baritone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baritone.jpg, an euphonium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Euphonium1.JPG and a tuba: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tuba.png

I play the acoustic guitar. But very badly. One day I'll rectify that tho! I'm an eternal optimist regarding such things.

But it may mean diverting some of my time away from obsessively playing computer games...

Ciarog:
I play banjo when I'm really bored. No good at it though.

Tell you who's a really really really good banjo player - STEVE MARTIN!

Just recently been listening to his early stand up shows (e.g. Get Small, A Wild and Crazy Guy) and not only was he genuinely really funny back then, he's also a really really really good banjo player. Worth checking out I promise you!

silentsentinel:
I play the Karnatakan violin (Indian). Regular old western violin with a different tuning.

Shit dude, same thing. What are you learning at the moment?

DIDGERIDOO AND BAD(ass)PIPES

the two most obnoxious instruments in the world, and i play them at 11pm on random street corners and then run like fuck

ok, only twice, and only ever the bagpipes, and i cant run for shit.

they rule, and you know it

I have been playing drums for several years now.

I play the drums and a little guitar.

nilpferdkoenig:

j-e-f-f-e-r-s:

nilpferdkoenig:

CSherman:
I play violin and I'm currently learning guitar.

Violin is an insturment of total perfection, you get my respect if you're good at that.
(and no, guitars are definatly not, you ever heard Nirvana?)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8akmP6Sjv2o

You were saying what about guitar?

I'm not impressed, Violin is still much harder to learn than a guitar and you couldn't get me anything better than Buckethead? MAB is one of the few people who has perfected every guitar technique.

Excuse me, I've been learning guitar for the past 8 years, and I'm off to music college in October to do a guitar course, and I'll be damned if you just said that. Not wishing to start an instrument war, but the guitar is just as difficult to master as the violin. It has six strings, compared to your four, and when taking into account that most guitars have 22 frets, there are around 130 notes to learn on the fretboard. It's an instrument capable of rhythm, like a piano (and unlike a violin), but also capable of searing lead parts as well. It's an incredibly versatile instrument, and is just as difficult to master as any other. Violin included.

And if by MAB you mean Michael Angelo Batio, oh pleeeease. The man thinks he's still living in the 80s. Eric Johnson wipes the floor with him in terms of technique. And Buckethead wipes the floor with both of them.

Geez.. Violin VS guitar

Least it isnt another bass vs guitar XD

Now.. nilpferdkoenig using Nirvana as an example of guitar skill is like using me in grade 4 as an example of violin skill. There are a ton of really good classical gutiarists that might tickle ones fancy (I stay the hell away from solo shreaders myself..)

j-e-f-f-e-r-s.. Come now. You have to admit that your average guitarist is noo where near the musical level of an average violinist. I played classical upright bass for a year through school and the level of sophistication was way behond anything I could imagen. The fingering, the lack of frets, the bowing (god how I hate the bowing). I know eletric bass and upright bass are way closer to each other than guitar is to violin but I would put a violinist who could play canon in D higher then your average Em pentatonic shreader.

You can do some totaly insane things with a guitar, but thanks to tabs, punk bands and distortion it has really lost a lot of musical credit

zen5887:
Geez.. Violin VS guitar

Least it isnt another bass vs guitar XD

Now.. nilpferdkoenig using Nirvana as an example of guitar skill is like using me in grade 4 as an example of violin skill. There are a ton of really good classical gutiarists that might tickle ones fancy (I stay the hell away from solo shreaders myself..)

j-e-f-f-e-r-s.. Come now. You have to admit that your average guitarist is noo where near the musical level of an average violinist. I played classical upright bass for a year through school and the level of sophistication was way behond anything I could imagen. The fingering, the lack of frets, the bowing (god how I hate the bowing). I know eletric bass and upright bass are way closer to each other than guitar is to violin but I would put a violinist who could play canon in D higher then your average Em pentatonic shreader.

You can do some totaly insane things with a guitar, but thanks to tabs, punk bands and distortion it has really lost a lot of musical credit

True, but just because most mainstream guitar players are very average at best, doesn't mean that the guitar itself is an average instrument. I've heard plenty of violin players who were average at best. Does that make the violin a beginner's instrument? Of course not.

Sorry if I seem to get worked up about this. It's just that I have to put up with plenty of snobbery already from other musicians, and nearly all of it is uncalled for. Anyone who's ever listened to David Gilmour or Gary Moore knows that the guitar is a wonderfully expressive instrument. Sure, there are lots of talentless guitarists out there. But there are also a lot of incredibly skilled ones as well.

I play some classical and ballad music with an classical acoustic(like a normal acoustic but with a jack for amplification) and also use a imitation fender 52 stratocaster to play classic rock(guns and roses, led zeppelin, rush, the like) and songs by joe satriani and steve vai

I've been playing guitar for around 9 and a half years now. I'm not too bad, but I should get back into it, my skills have really dropped. I mostly play video game tunes and Metal songs, especially stuff by In Flames, Opeth, HammerFall and Luca Turilli. I own an Ibanez RG 170, it has a few modifications for easier playing and it is my baby.

I play all guitars, and my mates and i are forming a punk, grundge, hard rock band.

I play all guitars, and my mates and i are forming a punk, grundge, hard rock band.

I play all guitars, and my mates and i are forming a punk, grundge, hard rock band.

im im a band and ive never been to a music school or lession
i teach myself

the ones im so good at i could show off with:
acoustic guitar
electric guitar
classical guitar
bass guitar
fret-less bass
sitar
banjo
mandalin
fiddle
drums
keyboards and piano

learning:
mellotron
cello
violin

going to learn:
saxaphone (sp?)
harmonica
flute

oh and i use a tamberine when im doing vocals XD

I play the piano. (And in my opinion, very well.)
I am also staring the guitar

double post. sorry . delete me

Alto saxophone and EWI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtdP3jQKUA No, I'm not Jeff Kashiwa, but I play the same instrument >.>)

I played the Chello as a child, would be awesome if I picked it up again.

Piano, and Guitar Hero

Clarinet + Piano FTW!

I also like strumming a guitar every once in a while.

I can play guitar hero badly... My musical bone is retarded.