# What music instruments do you play and for how long?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-instruments-do-you-play-and-for-how-long/130334>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 1, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-instruments-do-you-play-and-for-how-long/130334 "2002-10-01T01:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-instruments-do-you-play-and-for-how-long/130334/41 "2002-10-05T18:32:29Z")

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I have been playing piano for more than twelve years, since the age of 13. I also began composing my own music almost immediately after that. I taught piano for about a year and am now focusing on playing in orchestras for musical theatre productions, weddings, hotels, restaurants, and promoting my solo CD entitled _Midnight Story_, which consists of original piano compositions.

If anyone is interested in hearing my CD, you can check out my website at [www.brandonsturiale.com.](http://www.brandonsturiale.com)

**Jpeg Jones,** very impressive, keep it up! **Nerrie,** it’s _never_ too late.

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**Author:** ![CMScoby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@CMScoby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CMScoby)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-instruments-do-you-play-and-for-how-long/130334/42 "2002-10-06T02:56:10Z")

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Besides fooling around with the piano, and thereby learning how to read music, my first instrument was the flute, which I started in 4th grade. I’ve played that for 9 or so years now. I’ve played with the West Coast Symphony.

I started singing tenor in 9th grade, 4 years ago, and I’ve been in classical choruses and sing with the local opera company.

I finally took piano lessons last year, and had to unlearn much of the technique I taught myself over the years.

Now I’m trying to pick up clarinet as a seque to the oboe, which is probably my second favorite instrument. (First being flute.)

Now I’m at university as a music major, and I can’t decide what I want to emphisize- voice or flute. I would do both, except I’m already declaring physics as a double-major. I guess for now I’m just going to continue taking theory and musicology at school, but sing and play in my groups I already have.

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