@pjd Thank you very much!
Well, of course.
I’m afraid all my musical experience is decades in the past*. From beatnik coffeehouses of the early ‘60s to the hippie dribblings of the late ‘60s… it was all a blast!
*Like many of you, I’d suspect, I can’t wait til the house is empty, because that’s when I work on my piano and guitar compisitions… “busking for an imaginary audience”.
Thanks for the additions and corrections, folks. Here’s our updated roster:
Guitar:
xtenfarpl, Eonwe, pulykamell, dolphinboy, FinsToTheLeft (air), engineer_comp_geek, Kropotkin, Biffster, RivkahChaya, Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela, F.U.Shakespeare, Chefguy, by-tor, Maserschmidt, Johanna, rsThump, digs.
Bass:
xtenfarpl, RitterSport, Eonwe, pulykamell, minor7flat5, Dinsdale, Jaycat.again, engineer_comp_geek, Biffster, Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela, Crafter_Man, by-tor, Jumpbass, pjd (sometimes), rsThump.
Keyboards:
xtenfarpl, Ellecram, Eonwe, pulykamell, Disinfectus, dolphinboy, Misnomer, engineer_comp_geek, Biffster, Spoons, Hoops, CalMeacham, Johanna, rsThump, digs.
Vocals:
Ellecram, Eonwe, fachverwirrt, Misnomer, Apodder, Kropotkin, Gyrate, ekedolphin, Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela, F.U.Shakespeare, Spoons, Sylvanz, rsThump.
Percussion:
Disinfectus, FinsToTheLeft (air), engineer_comp_geek, Spoons (spoons), by-tor, RitterSport (standard kit drums), themapleleaf (spoons), Johanna (hand drums).
Woodwinds:
Apodder (flute, piccolo), Toxgoddess (flute), Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela (Irish flute, pennywhistle), F.U.Shakespeare (harmonica), Spoons (flute, pennywhistle, recorder), CalMeacham (harmonica, recorder), pjd (sax), themapleleaf (bagpipes).
Strings:
Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela (mandolin, Appalachian dulcimer), Kropotkin (banjo), Dinsdale (banjo), Gyrate (cello), Johanna (cello).
Brass:
CalMeacham (cornet, trumpet), Spoons (trombone).
If it’ll help narrow down the list (vocals), I sing the bass part.
While you’re at it, you could throw me in as ‘Brass’, playing tuba, euphonium/baritone, and bass trombone.
Gotcha, @Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela . List updated, to be posted later, as yet more additions and corrections come in. Thanks! (Tuba? You? Really?)
Long, rambling, pointless hijack of a story…
My marks were shit in high school - if it hadn’t been written by J. R. R. Tolkien or Arthur C. Clarke, I didn’t see any point in reading it. So when I graduated with a 52 in English, among other ‘couldn’t be bothered to try’ sort of marks in everything else, I discovered that Brandon University (in my home town) was one of the few places that might accept me. Basically, I was going for the ‘local loser’ stream of admission. But I couldn’t be a guitar major, because all they offered was classical guitar, about which I knew nothing. I had been hoping for some sort of Berkeley School jazz/rock fusion guitar, with a lot of history, theory, and composition thrown in, but I didn’t have the marks to get into anything like that.
So there was a week or two where I was seriously considering auditioning as a tuba major. I was quite good on the instrument, having played since grade 7. Then there came a day when I figured out that if I auditioned as a voice major, that might be more useful in terms of the fire-breathing guitar player path that I was most interested in… And really, I was thinking of myself as a theory/composition major in any case. Three years later, I was singing for Edmonton Opera…
My first full day at BU, when you get your courses and meet your profs, I had the strange experience of meeting the orchestra conductor, who said “You’re a guitarist, right? Did you ever play any bass?”, to which I said “Yeah, a bit, when the bass player had to play keyboards…”. “Okay” he says “how would you like to play double bass in the orchestra? We’ll throw in a weekly lesson with the cello prof at no cost, you’ll get an extra credit for minoring in bass, and you’ll get an extra ensemble credit for playing in the orchestra. When the concerts come up, we’ll hire a ringer from Winnipeg or Regina anyway, I just need someone to fill out that lower octave at rehearsals.” Well, I couldn’t refuse an offer like that!
I wasn’t more than twenty feet away from him before I had the same conversation with the conductor of the Wind Ensemble/Concert Band. “Aren’t you that kid who played tuba with the Brandon band? Didn’t I do a brass clinic with you a couple of years ago? How would you like to join the BU band? We’ll give you free lessons, an extra credit as a tuba minor, and an extra ensemble credit. We might still gig someone in from Winnipeg or Regina, but I just want to hear that bottom octave at rehearsals”.
Twenty feet later, the leader of the Collegium Musicum, our early music ensemble, comes up to me - “Have you ever played a lute? Would you like to? And someone told me you still play recorder - how would you like to learn about crummhorns, shawms, rackets, and other Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque instruments? We’d give you an extra ensemble credit…”
Which is why I had no social life but absolutely loved my time at BU!!
You could probably toss me in the keyboard pile as well. I’d never planlce myself in the same tier as actual pianists, and my technique is terrible, but I’m an excellent reader, and my job has me behind a keyboard for 20 or 30 hours a week (that, combined with my wretched technique, left me with bilateral tennis elbow).
I am a very beginning drummer. Just started taking lessons in February (after trying a couple other times over the years) and I can play a few relatively easy rock songs.
Do you have a favorite?
You count me under voice, too, since that is what I do much of the time.
I had accordion lessons when I was 6 or 7, and while I sold my instrument a few years back, I’m proud to say I can still play as well as I did at 7!! 
I’m a self-taught guitarist. I have had lessons a few times to get past the basics of chords and strumming. I still have my guitar, but I honestly don’t recall the last time I played it, and my fingers are getting arthritic enough that I don’t know if I ever can again. Maybe one of the grandkids will want to learn.
I’ve also taught myself a little piano - OK, the right hand is the same as on the accordion, but learning the left hand was a challenge. These days, tho, it’s the grands who pound on the ivories (or plastics - it’s not that fancy a piano.)
Finally, I taught myself a teensy tiny bit on the recorder, yet another instrument the grands like to play with. And many many years ago, a friend let me try her trumpet. The sound that came out was that of an animal in pain.
After my inlaws died, the hammered dulcimer that my FIL built came to us and it lives behind me in this room. It’s severely out of tune, but I have the means to tune it. I have yet to try. It’s a beautiful instrument that takes up a chunk of real estate and it deserves to go t someone who can play it, but my husband will never let it go. So maybe I should give tuning it a shot, then figure out how to play it.
I used to sing - Soprano I in high school, eventually Alto, and now I can croak out “The Wheels on the Bus” with the kidlets, but I haven’t much of a voice left.
Yeah, this kind of sounds like me. I have an acoustic and electric guitar, know about a dozen chords and can play a few songs, but I can go six months or more without picking one up and playing it. And when I do play it’s by myself in my office/man cave in the basement. But I guess @Spoons has lowered the bar enough for me to qualify.
I play handbells also. They’re fun because you don’t play solo-you are part of a choir, equivalent to being three or four keys on a keyboard. But they are technically a percussion instrument.
Having dabbled in these in my early music days, I would think the lung capacity needed for tuba would have come in extremely handy (and for opera as well). Playing bass crumhorn requires the airflow of a leafblower.
I figured out how to play the theme from Squid Game on the recorder! Funny little piece, as it’s in Em, but it has a D# in it. 
The minor scales get a little funky at times. E melodic minor ascending has a D# in it.
Really, without a D# I’d call it Aeolian, not minor. To me minor implies tonality, which really requires a leading tone.
Except a natural minor requires no leading tone apart from a flat 7. The Squid Game is odd in that the one sounds out of place, except that it makes it sound distinctive. You should try it on recorder. Dead easy to play.
Well, I feel a little less stupid playing tuba/euphonium/baritone, but the bass trombone is awesome!
That really didn’t answer anything, did it? 