# Role Call for Musicians on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945 "2000-10-14T23:59:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuerca8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Tuerca8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuerca8)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/1 "2000-10-14T23:59:14Z")
I’m just really curious as to who any other musicians are out there. Anybody in a rock band, marching group, etc? What do you play? -nut- ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/2 "2000-10-15T00:03:29Z")
I play a killer dashboard and my skills on the wineglass are uncontested. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/3 "2000-10-15T00:10:48Z")
I play guitar; not in any bands (keep trying to start one, but I can never find a percussionist AND a bassist, only one or the other). I can also read music and plink on the keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/4 "2000-10-15T00:12:46Z")
I’m a tuba player (duh!) and march and play and all that stuff. Woohoo… ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/5 "2000-10-15T00:13:30Z")
Well, I blow bass (electric, though I want to play stand-up). I also play electric guitar, though my bass is my main ax. Not in a band right now, though. Currently looking around. I have been in a few bands playing trumpet, but nothing recently. I have also played harmonica in the past, and still play every once in a while. I’m also pretty good at the mouth-harp (that thing that Snoopy always pulls out and plays in the Peanuts movies). ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/6 "2000-10-15T00:17:21Z")
_Hijack!_ Is it PC to call a mouth harp a Jew’s Harp? I really don’t know. Hope I don’t offend anyone with that, it’s just what I’ve always heard them called. Also, I fiddle around with my strat clone once in a while, but can’t play a single tune all the way through, although I’ve a mastered a few portions of Pink Floyd and Marley songs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuerca8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Tuerca8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuerca8)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/7 "2000-10-15T00:25:04Z")
I suppose it would only be fair to include what I play. I play piano, mostly jazz; ALL percussion, inclusive of rudimental snare, quads, and bass drum, all keyboard/mallet percussion (i.e. vibes, marimba), and the ol’ drumset. I’m currently in a Grateful Dead cover band as the lone drummer. I’ve marched in the Conquistadors drum and bugle corps in the pit. I play in my school Jazz Combo on piano and the marching band as section leader on snare. I hope to go to Berkeley next year to major in music and to some day march Santa Clara Vanguard. Tubagirl, do you march any corps? -nut- ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/8 "2000-10-15T00:25:53Z")
Hi, I’m Mike, I play guitar. I’m good too, just ask me. 😃 Nah… …but really, there’s not much I can’t play. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/9 "2000-10-15T00:37:11Z")
I’m a percussionist. Mostly mallets. I never did corps, mostly because DE wasn’t a condusive location. Oh, and I play the harmonica. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/10 "2000-10-15T01:18:59Z")
I sing in a large chorus and a chamber choir…and I sing along with my jazz cds and alternative rock radio. Oh, and Im majoring in music (voice, duh). ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/11 "2000-10-15T01:36:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuerca8 \* > \*\* > > Tubagirl, do you march any corps? > -nut- \*\* I was going to march Magic last summer but I had to work the summer instead. I march for UCF knights and play professionally at area attractions in orlando. I am considered rare, as a female, to play the tuba. Especially in central florida. it is fun beingan oddity. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/12 "2000-10-15T01:37:42Z")
Erstwhile oboist, now play alto recorder and radio (occasionally guitar). -----😛 —////\\ ---
**Author:** ![LazarusLong42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LazarusLong42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LazarusLong42)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/13 "2000-10-15T01:38:13Z")
Violin. Since I was eight. You should try it some time. Now tell me I’m not the only string player here (besides, of course, the guitarists \) LL ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/14 "2000-10-15T02:15:23Z")
i TRY to play fiddle, but my fiddle is a piece of garage-sale crap and keeps having technical difficulties. My male friend is a very good cellist and vaguely familiar with violins, and he says he’ll try to solve at least enough fiddle-problems for it to be playable, but i’m not expecting any miracles (even if his nickname IS jesus). Not to brag, but I’m not bad at the fiddle when it’s working. I’d been playing it for a day and a half and I could play along with the Dixie Chicks’ “Cowboy Take Me Away”. Then the bridge broke and one of the pegs came loose. ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/15 "2000-10-15T03:07:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by silent\_rob \* > \*\*Well, I blow bass (electric, though I want to play stand-up). I also play electric guitar, though my bass is my main ax. \*\* Cool you play bass too? I play electric and acoustic… they both kick major ass. What do you play? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/16 "2000-10-15T03:15:12Z")
**Winds** : Flute Alto Flute Bamboo Flute Rosewood Flute Ceramic Flute Tenor Recorder Alto Recorder Soprano Recorder Penny Whistle C Melody Saxophone Alto Saxophone Soprano Saxophone Clarinet **Strings** : Six String Steel Guitar Electrified Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar\* Semi-hollow Body Electric Guitar Electric Bass \*(With 4x12 Gallien Krueger Cabinet and 200RG Amp plus full effects pedal board and guitar effects synthesizer.) **Keyboards** : Piano Synthesizers **Other** Harmonica Jaw Harp Vocals I compose instrumental music in classical, jazz, folk, Irish, blues and rock styles. I also sing and write lyrics for blues, rock and folk. My own song catalog runs into the hundreds of compositions. I have appeared on radio and television. I have played solo and in bands, run open microphones and produced talent showcases. I have a complete eight channel stereo PA system with snake plus all the mics and speakers needed to do a full stage performance. At home I have a four channel open reel and cassette recording studio with eight channel mixdown system. Did I mention that music is my life? PS: Other than a year and a half of piano lessons when I was five (now forgotten), I am totally self taught and cannot read sheet music. ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/17 "2000-10-15T03:24:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by orion007 > > Cool you play bass too? I play electric and acoustic… they both kick major ass. What do you play? \*\* Woops… I meant what MUSIC do you play? ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/18 "2000-10-15T03:28:07Z")
Clarinet is all that I can play well, but I also know some trumpet and piano, and have played tuba, trombone, alto saxophone, percussion and guitar. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/19 "2000-10-15T03:35:32Z")
I sing and I play music on my throat and parts of my face and head. I’ve also played drums. ---
**Author:** ![Palmyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@Palmyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palmyra)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/20 "2000-10-15T04:01:46Z")
I’ve played the flute since i was in fifth grade. Also took piano lessons for a few years, but my teacher, though very very good, was a bitch and i couldn’t stand her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945.md?page=2)