# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ignoscop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/94ad74/32.png) [@ignoscop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignoscop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/81 "2000-10-19T02:08:14Z")
I play at hoedowns. Can work the saw and the fiddle and the tub. None of them good, but all of them loud! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/82 "2000-10-19T06:34:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tennents \* > \*\*Bagpipes \*\* YESSSSS!!! No sweeter sound in the world, in the right hands. In the wrong hands, well, let’s just keep 'em out of the wrong hands. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/83 "2000-10-19T11:01:49Z")
Lead guitar–and there is a difference between basic chords and good rhythm guitar, which I don’t play–with total guitar playing time of 22 years, bass, mandolin, vox, and working on piano. I think fiddle’s next, since it’s tuned the same as the mando. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/84 "2000-10-19T11:37:58Z")
bass guitar was my first love, but i also picked up the ole six-string. To round it out, i picked up a set o’ drums and can actually bang out a fairly solid beat on 'em. I can play a tiny bit on piano. I’m still working on my violin. Finally, to make my skills complete, I took up singing, mostly by way of…karaoke. Now I can jam with just about anybody 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/85 "2000-10-19T11:51:23Z")
Half-assed guitar player here. If you want to stick to the punk/new wave idiom you can get by pretty easily. I’ve played both lead and rhythm. Cut my teeth on drums in high school, dabbled in keyboards (it’s a programming there. Or at least it was) and switched to guitar in my 20s. Heck, I don’t even embarass myself on bass. ---
**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/86 "2000-10-19T16:46:22Z")
Classically trained violinist and cellist. Self-taught pianist and guitarist. Tried to play my brother’s drums a few times, but I have no rhythm. I’m a decent singer - a bluesy alto. Excelled at music theory - minored in music. Would like to go back and study composition (orchestral and experimental). ---
**Author:** ![momerath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@momerath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/momerath)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/87 "2000-10-20T15:10:00Z")
I have played trombone for 12 years now, in and out of various school and church bands/orchestras, and played baritone (euphonium) for 4 years before that. I’m currently playing in a ska band with some of the kids in our youth group. I’m also taking piano lessons, but not up to a level that counts yet, tho. I agree that it is the ultimate instrument–even the short time I’ve been taking has increased my ability to improv on the trombone, much to the happiness of the young-ins. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/88 "2000-10-20T15:40:28Z")
Trumpet Bass guitar Guitar (if you can call being able to move one chord up and down the neck playing) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945/89 "2000-10-20T16:49:27Z")
TMR- I sure as shit consider being able to hold a bar chord and moving up and down ‘playing’. Have someone teach you power chords sometime. Same basic theory…more versatility. Don’t let anyone bring you down. Many a great song was written with bar chords and the like. Heck, there must be about a ka-jillion millionaires in the rock age who stuck with them. And they’re MUCH easier to play if you have to sing at the same time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/role-call-for-musicians-on-the-sdmb/36945.md?page=4)