# An Instrumental Wish **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892 "2015-11-18T15:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/41 "2015-11-22T18:51:17Z")
First choice would be piano, I love the physicality of it. Second choice would be a massive drum kit. Again the physicality, and the amazing coordination. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/42 "2015-11-23T22:06:55Z")
New guy to the SDMB; pardon my party-crashing. Played clarinet, baritone horn/euphonium/whateveryacallit, and bassoon in high school - bassoon on into college. What I would _really_ like to play is an orchestra - as a respected _and_ _feared_ conductor. Failing that - hammered dulcimer, please? ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/43 "2015-11-24T16:54:43Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > I can play a number of instruments, amateur that I am on all of them. > > I always wanted to learn to play the [DIDGERIDOO](https://youtu.be/RhDaNgJbtI0), but the local music shops/pawn stores look at me funny when I ask if they have any for sale. Try your local New Agey type store. Seriously. I would love to master the violin, myself. I took lessons when I was a kid until my mid-teens, but never really had the determination to get any better at it. I still have my violin, though. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/44 "2015-11-24T17:01:20Z")
As a musician from a family of musicians, I can already play about a dozen instruments, and some of them pretty darn well, if I do say so myself. 🙂 But I have always wished I could play classical Andres Segovia-type guitar with his level of skill and artistry. ---
**Author:** ![May\_20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@May\_20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/May_20)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/45 "2015-11-24T19:04:49Z")
Flute. I played through high school and into college, giving it up because of time. MayGirl plays my flute now, and she is so much better than I was at that age. Through her, I’ve learned the range that a flute has. I want to take it up again, but that would necessitate buying another flute. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/46 "2015-11-24T19:14:56Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > …and bassoon in high school - bassoon on into college. The bassoon is my instrument as well! Got my first professional gig at 18 in 1988 and never looked back. I’ve conducted as well, with enthusiastic response from the ensembles, but I was never tempted to make it my profession. My other musical professions are composing and teaching. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/47 "2015-11-24T19:27:43Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > Me, I would love to be a master of the Banjo…Blue grass, New Grass, polyethnic cajun slamgrass…it all makes me smile. I would be called “Banjovie” It has been said that a gentleman is someone who can play the banjo - but doesn’t. I have to go along with **Czarcasm** on this one. Pipe organ, the bigger the better. I look forward to mastering the technique of using my feet to perform arpeggios on the pedals - the so-called “Tootsie Roll”. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892/48 "2015-11-24T19:29:27Z")
That is wonderful, Knorf; I knew I was never good enough to go pro (though I did, in fact, self-teach myself bassoon). I still am inordinately proud, for no reason at all, that I played both single reed, double reed, and brass all at about the same time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-instrumental-wish/737892.md?page=2)