Playing Music

[Tofferer]

I am starting to learn to play the harmonica and I am just wondering who else plays an instrument (perhaps more than one instrument?). Any thoughts or advice that may help?

[Melethiel]

My major is in pipe organ performance.
I can also play the piano and harpsichord.
And I can sing fairly decently.

[Lupinus]

I occasionaly make weird noises does that count? :swoon:

[LilLamb219]

I play the flute :) I am obsessed with it!

[RadMan]

Jews Harp? :D
http://www.twainquotes.com/jewsharp.jpg

[DaRev]

I play a mean radio.

[PreachersWife2004]

I play clarinet, bass clarinet, alto clarinet and contrabass clarinet, as well as the piano and the trumpet. I can also play the saxophone and the oboe, but since I haven't played them in over ten years, I don't really count that. I sing, too...

[LilLamb219]

^^^^^ overachiever ^^^^^^

[NordicLutheran]

I play trombone!

[Lupinus]

I play the recorder (sort of a strait flute) and the violin. Of course, it's been a few years so I'm not emplying I could play them well lol

[Edial]

I play clarinet, bass clarinet, alto clarinet and contrabass clarinet, as well as the piano and the trumpet. I can also play the saxophone and the oboe, but since I haven't played them in over ten years, I don't really count that. I sing, too...
Wow. ... But what's the difference between these types of clarrinets? Are the keys somehow laid out differently?

[PreachersWife2004]

Wow. ... But what's the difference between these types of clarrinets? Are the keys somehow laid out differently?

In most cases, it's a matter of what octave they play in, but like with the contrabass that I own, it's an Eb instrument, whereas most clarinets are Bb. Plus, the alto, contra and bass clarinet are rather shaped like a saxophone and the key layout is pretty much the same with just a few minor detail differences.

The bass is by far my favorite. I just love the intonation. The Eb isn't all that great - as a matter of fact many symphonic bands were trying to get rid of them for awhile because they aren't really good for much. I do find that it goes with our little woodwind trio/quartet when we have an oboe being played.

I've played the clarinet or some variation of it since 5th grade. I've played in three concert bands and I even had a short stint in a symphonic band that I got paid for! I'd try out for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra but I lack the confidence to do so. I get nervous these days when I play in front of people - moreso on the piano though. Ever since a disastrous solo performance I've had to deal with finger paralysis. My fingers lock up and refuse to move if they are anywhere near the piano.


On a different note, my son is following in my footsteps. He can currently play the piano, the trumpet and the recorder. He hates the recorder because he thinks it's a sissy instrument but he is really good on it. Just had to brag there for a bit!

[DaRev]

The differences are in the tone and shape. I played the clarinet, bass clarinet, and contra-bass clarinet in high school. The key layout on them are identical. The size and shape of them are different. The contra-bass looks like a drain pipe. ^_^

[DaRev]

but like with the contrabass that I own, it's an Eb instrument, whereas most clarinets are Bb.

The contra-bass I played in high school was a Bb instrument. It was metal and weighed a ton!

[PreachersWife2004]

The contra-bass I played in high school was a Bb instrument. It was metal and weighed a ton!

Oh, yeah, so does mine, and I can't find my neck strap!

[PreachersWife2004]

I apologize, it's my ALTO clarinet that is Eb, not my contra-bass. Oops.

Anyway, here is a picture of a REGULAR clarinet:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j111/PezGirl1973/Clarinet.jpg

Here is a picture of the "bigger" clarinets:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j111/PezGirl1973/clarinet-family_deep1.jpg

The first one pictured is a contra-bass, which as you can see does indeed look like plumbing! The second is a regular bass clarinet and the third one is an Eb alto clarinet.

[DaRev]

This was the contrabass I played:

http://home.att.net/~chattanoogaclarinetchoir/contrabass.gif

[Melethiel]

In most cases, it's a matter of what octave they play in, but like with the contrabass that I own, it's an Eb instrument, whereas most clarinets are Bb. Plus, the alto, contra and bass clarinet are rather shaped like a saxophone and the key layout is pretty much the same with just a few minor detail differences.

The bass is by far my favorite. I just love the intonation. The Eb isn't all that great - as a matter of fact many symphonic bands were trying to get rid of them for awhile because they aren't really good for much. I do find that it goes with our little woodwind trio/quartet when we have an oboe being played.

I've played the clarinet or some variation of it since 5th grade. I've played in three concert bands and I even had a short stint in a symphonic band that I got paid for! I'd try out for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra but I lack the confidence to do so. I get nervous these days when I play in front of people - moreso on the piano though. Ever since a disastrous solo performance I've had to deal with finger paralysis. My fingers lock up and refuse to move if they are anywhere near the piano.


On a different note, my son is following in my footsteps. He can currently play the piano, the trumpet and the recorder. He hates the recorder because he thinks it's a sissy instrument but he is really good on it. Just had to brag there for a bit!
I don't care much for the sound of a regular clarinet :sorry: (I think it's because it's the clarinetists who always perform in school of music recitals, and I've had my fill of them ^_^), but I do like the bass clarinet. Oh, and I once heard some famous German clarinetist play who got the most amazing, beautiful sound out of his instrument.

I've played the piano since I was 5, and I started playing organ in fall 2004. I'm now much better on the organ than I am on piano.

[DaRev]

I love the clarinet sound. Benny Goodman is my hero. :P

[PreachersWife2004]

One clarinet by itself does NOT sound pretty. I learned that the hard way during a fine arts fair when I adamantly insisted, against my instructor's wishes, on playing my clarinet for the recital instead of the piano. I earned a little white "fine" ribbon for that performance, along with my five other superiors (first place) ribbons on everything else. (Yes, LilLamb is right, I am an overachiever!! ^_^)

But pair a good sounding clarinet with a flute and an oboe and I think it's one of the most beautiful sounds in the galaxy. I have always loved woodwind trios, especially at Christmas. I don't know why, either. These days I love the trio that we have at church at Christmas because we play the coolest version of What Child is This.

Sometimes I hear a clarinet being played and I am totally in awe, like "how come *I* can't get my instrument to sound that way??!?!?"

[Edial]

I apologize, it's my ALTO clarinet that is Eb, not my contra-bass. Oops.

Anyway, here is a picture of a REGULAR clarinet:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j111/PezGirl1973/Clarinet.jpg

Here is a picture of the "bigger" clarinets:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j111/PezGirl1973/clarinet-family_deep1.jpg

The first one pictured is a contra-bass, which as you can see does indeed look like plumbing! The second is a regular bass clarinet and the third one is an Eb alto clarinet.

The only thing that I know about a clarinet is that one gets a caloused lip of a sort ... :D :)

But these pictures are great.

Thanks. :)

[RadMan]

This was the contrabass I played:

http://hem.passagen.se/eriahl/images/contbass.gifNot much there.

[Lupinus]

you contrabass was a little white box with a red x rev?

Cool!

[DaRev]

Not much there.

I edited my post. It should show up now.

[RadMan]

Beside the Jews harp :) I play the organ, piano and synthesizer. At the Institute of Music (now defunct) in Clayton Mo I played the clarinet, sax and percussion instruments. My biggest forte is singing in choirs most of my life.

[Edial]

Oh yeah, Mel just reminded me ...
once I went to a classical concert in a park.
And there was this guy playing some type of an wind instrument. It looked kind of heavy.
Afterwards he was carrying it about and many in the audience were asking him questions about it.

It was an awkward looking beast. Going straight up as a tree trunk and he was blowing into a narrow type of a tube that looked like a skinny copper water line.

I wonder what it was.

[Edial]

One clarinet by itself does NOT sound pretty. I learned that the hard way during a fine arts fair when I adamantly insisted, against my instructor's wishes, on playing my clarinet for the recital instead of the piano. I earned a little white "fine" ribbon for that performance, along with my five other superiors (first place) ribbons on everything else. (Yes, LilLamb is right, I am an overachiever!! ^_^)

But pair a good sounding clarinet with a flute and an oboe and I think it's one of the most beautiful sounds in the galaxy. I have always loved woodwind trios, especially at Christmas. I don't know why, either. These days I love the trio that we have at church at Christmas because we play the coolest version of What Child is This.

Sometimes I hear a clarinet being played and I am totally in awe, like "how come *I* can't get my instrument to sound that way??!?!?"


So that's why I really like clarinet in a band surroundings and kind of just respectfully smile when it is played solo ...

[DaRev]

Oh yeah, Mel just reminded me ...
once I went to a classical concert in a park.
And there was this guy playing some type of an wind instrument. It looked kind of heavy.
Afterwards he was carrying it about and many in the audience were asking him questions about it.

It was an awkward looking beast. Going straight up as a tree trunk and he was blowing into a narrow type of a tube that looked like a skinny copper water line.

I wonder what it was.

Sounds like a Bassoon.

http://web.band.nd.edu/catalog/images/bassoon.JPG

[Edial]

Beside the Jews harp :) I play the organ, piano and synthesizer. At the Institute of Music (now defunct) in Clayton Mo I played the clarinet, sax and percussion instruments. My biggest forte is singing in choirs most of my life.
You shjowed a picture of the Jews harp.

I clearly have no idea how it is played, or even how the sound is derived from it.

What made you actually buy one?

[Edial]

I love the clarinet sound. Benny Goodman is my hero. :P
Right, right that's the guy I meant when I talked about the clarinet in a band surrounding.

[filosofer]

I have been playing guitar for nearly half a century. Mostly bluegrass, liturgical, old country. Even played accompaniment for a Gospel quartet while I was in the Navy (30+ years ago).


I learned on a 1934 Montgomery Wards special $4.95 guitar with the strings 1/2 inch from the frets. Yes, my fingers bled plenty from that.:sick: The next year my parents bought a homemade guitar (neighbor made it) for my Confirmation gift. I still have this guitar.


In 1965 I bought a 1955 Gibson double cut-away thin (hollow) body electric guitar, cherry red. One of the easiest playing guitars ever. Played that until 1991. Then in 1992 I bought a handmade Flat top similar to a Martin. Beautiful sound. My main problem is that I don't have enough time to play like I want.

[Edial]

I have been playing guitar for nearly half a century. Mostly bluegrass, liturgical, old country. Even played accompaniment for a Gospel quartet while I was in the Navy (30+ years ago).


I learned on a 1934 Montgomery Wards special $4.95 guitar with the strings 1/2 inch from the frets. Yes, my fingers bled plenty from that.:sick: The next year my parents bought a homemade guitar (neighbor made it) for my Confirmation gift. I still have this guitar.


In 1965 I bought a 1955 Gibson double cut-away thin (hollow) body electric guitar, cherry red. One of the easiest playing guitars ever. Played that until 1991. Then in 1992 I bought a handmade Flat top similar to a Martin. Beautiful sound. My main problem is that I don't have enough time to play like I want.
Something about a plain guitar that an electric one somehow cannot grasp.

I especially like it when chords and lead are skillfully intertwined by a player.

Technically speaking I cannot think of one reason why electric guitar cannot do everything that a plain one can ... but I did not hear (yet) a really great classical performance on an electric guitar.

[Aibrean]

flute, piccolo, recorder, tin whistle

[MagnusEmboden]

All of which raises the question:

Are Lutherans the most musical of all the denominations?

My entirely unscientific and subjective "analysis" would seem to indicate so.

[PreachersWife2004]

Oh I would tend to agree with you, most definitely!! ^_^ :tutu:

[Edial]

Sounds like a Bassoon.

http://web.band.nd.edu/catalog/images/bassoon.JPG
Something like that, but it was much wider. I'd say the trunk of it was at least 7 inches in diameter. And the lenght was probably almost a human height.

[DaRev]

Something like that, but it was much wider. I'd say the trunk of it was at least 7 inches in diameter. And the lenght was probably almost a human height.

Perhaps a contrabassoon.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19499/19499-h/images/contrabassoon.jpg

[RadMan]

You shjowed a picture of the Jews harp.

I clearly have no idea how it is played, or even how the sound is derived from it.

What made you actually buy one?Didn't buy it. It was a joke. One of my buddies knew I was a musician and gave it to me for a birthday or something like that years ago. I was determined to figure out how to play it and them some one said to blow across the twanging reed. So Idid, and it did :)

[porterross]

I started playing drums in sixth grade and was a percussionist all through school. It was a kick!

[Edial]

All of which raises the question:

Are Lutherans the most musical of all the denominations?

My entirely unscientific and subjective "analysis" would seem to indicate so.
Well, among other instruments we have a Jews harp, tin whistle, an eB clarinet, hand made guitar and harmonica.

For starters I could just picture Mel blaring on the pipe organ in a movie setting of a Hunchback of Notre Dame and Rad hunching over someplace ona tower and making weird noises on the Jews harp.
All other niches of the castle of course will also be occupied by all the individuals here playing their favorite instrument in a perfect unison.

And all the denominations (the "unlearned masses") are standing outside and gaping at this picture.

Yep, somehow it looks very "Lutheran" to me.

Oh, I'm being goofy ... :liturgy:

Ed

[LutherNut]

I play bass... sometimes. :P

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg292/LutherNut/LNutMeez.gif

[CaliforniaJosiah]

Guitar.

But I'm mostly a vocalist.

[LilLamb219]

Looks like we have a pretty good TCL band here (and choir!) :)

[Tofferer]

lol. I would likely be locked on the lowest dungeon playing my harmonica. My best song right now is silent night.

[DaRev]

I play bass... sometimes. :P

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg292/LutherNut/LNutMeez.gif

Ha! A barefoot bassist! ^_^

[Melethiel]

I've been wondering...where do ya'll get those animated pics?

[LilLamb219]

meez.com

[Edial]

lol. I would likely be locked on the lowest dungeon playing my harmonica. My best song right now is silent night.
Very appropriate too ... it is dark in there.

[Tofferer]

Things don't tend to lighten up here in Washington until about March. Of course I will continue to practice then too. Why not?

[maylor]

Self taught, living-room guitar player. Only audience i've ever had has been a few house parties with friends.

[NordicLutheran]

I hate to admit this but I am a loather of most guitar players. I only have one reason though. 99% of guitar players cannot read music(tabs don't count). The ones that can read music and play more than three chords are cool I guess. I take music a little seriously though, not meaning to offend anyone lol, but I'm sure other music majors can relate.

[seajoy]

I hate to admit this but I am a loather of most guitar players.
How to win friends and influence people. :doh: :)

[RadMan]

I hate to admit this but I am a loather of most guitar players. I only have one reason though. 99% of guitar players cannot read music(tabs don't count). The ones that can read music and play more than three chords are cool I guess. I take music a little seriously though, not meaning to offend anyone lol, but I'm sure other music majors can relate.As a person that can "read music" and not adlib, I admire people that can. They have a special talent that is very creative and not restricted to the pure mechanics of reading and memorizing. Even though both styles have passion for music only the adlibbers are unrestrained in technique and creativity.

[filosofer]

I hate to admit this but I am a loather of most guitar players. I only have one reason though. 99% of guitar players cannot read music(tabs don't count). The ones that can read music and play more than three chords are cool I guess. I take music a little seriously though, not meaning to offend anyone lol, but I'm sure other music majors can relate.

As one who could eventually read music, I learned by watching others play guitar, then playing with them, on the fly. Over the past five decades I have played with many of both stripes. There is a certain feeling for the music with those who learn by ear, while there is a precision in those read music. Both sides have elitist attitudes. It doesn't take me long to discover whether the person exhibits that kind of attitude. And for me, I don't usually play with them more than once or twice. Music is enjoyable, I don't need an elitist attitude to spoil it, no matter how they learned to play music.


just some rambling thoughts from a "grumpy old man" ;)

[LilLamb219]

I hate to admit this but I am a loather of most guitar players. I only have one reason though. 99% of guitar players cannot read music(tabs don't count). The ones that can read music and play more than three chords are cool I guess. I take music a little seriously though, not meaning to offend anyone lol, but I'm sure other music majors can relate.

My daughter received an acoustic guitar for Christmas. She played flute in elementary school (she's 14 now), so she can read music fairly well and it will help with her guitar. She has about 4 chords memorized right now. :thumbsup:

[KimLCMS]

I'm a trumpet player. Majored in Music. Taught in public school before kids were born. Teach private lessons and play professionally.

Short version :)

[LilLamb219]

Oooh I forgot to add that I play the handbells (and chimes) for church :) All you need to know to play those is how to count and to tell one color from another!

[synger]

I played flute for three months in fifth grade. Piano for two years in elementary school. Guitar for two years in high school.

But I've been singing all my life. I've had the most wonderful vocal coaches, from the retired opera singer who served as the cantor at the one-and-only Christian Science church in my home town (and played percussion in the local symphony) to the amazing professor (http://www.mus.cmich.edu/faculty/cora_enman.htm)who taught vocal music at CMU. (I was one of the only non-music major/minors in my year who had a good enough audition to get music lessons with the vocal staff).

My BIL just recently moved cross-country, so we acquired his piano. For my daughter. Yeah. Who's been sitting at it every night for the past two weeks, laboriously working her way through Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course (http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic/dp/0882848186/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2) book from the library? Me. I'm amazed at how much I remember, even after so many years of knowing JUST enough piano to pick out melodies I was learning that were too complex for me to sight-sing.

It's been very exciting.

[PreachersWife2004]

I love the piano. It is by far my favorite instrument to play. The fact that two hands can make such beautiful music just blows me away.

[LilLamb219]

I'm amazed at how people can actually pay attention to more than one note at a time!!!

[synger]

I'm amazed at how people can actually pay attention to more than one note at a time!!!
That's what totally messed me up the few times I tried handbells. I'm SO used to looking at a whole line of music, looking ahead to see what I'll be singing. The idea that I was only ONE of those notes really messed me up.

I was concentrating so hard, my whole body taut as I tried to play on my note and only my note. Finally my choir director stopped the whole rehearsal and said, "Um, Sally... you should be playing bells with your hands, not your tongue..." I didn't realize I had my tongue sticking out of the corner of my mouth, I was focused so hard.

At least she made me relax, if only because of the laughter. But I still couldn't make the switch from thinking in the musical line to thinking of one note in that line.

[Edial]

I'm amazed at how people can actually pay attention to more than one note at a time!!!
When I was young I was taking music lessons at school.
The teacher was playing a chord and I had to sing it out by individual notes.
It was OK when she was playing natural 3 note chord. I could see through them easily. Then, she started with 4 notes and them 5. And then she stopped playing natural chords and was using about any combination she wished.
I was eventually stumped.

When I was distinguishing notes in a chord I was somehow "seeing" all individual notes within a chord and their exact amount.

This also reminds me of the movie about Mozart, "Amadeus, Amadeus".
I recall that scene whe he was at his deathbed and reciting the opera to that man who betrayed him.
He was seeing the entire opera in his head with all the instruments doing their part in a perfect unison.
That man could hardly keep up in copying this to paper.

Somehow God sees us all in our seeming cacophony of individualities and will somehow adjust our voices to a perfect opera that will be played in Heaven.

I'm getting ahead of myself again. :)

Thanks, :)
Ed

[RevCowboy]

I am starting to learn to play the harmonica and I am just wondering who else plays an instrument (perhaps more than one instrument?). Any thoughts or advice that may help?

Accoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Stand up Bass, Cello, Euphonium, Tuba, Trumpet, Piano and little violin, viola, and other brass instruments. I blame this on my PK mother who is a piano teacher...

As far as the harmonica goes, all I know is that you use your tongue to block the holes that you don't want to play...

[maylor]

I hate to admit this but I am a loather of most guitar players. I only have one reason though. 99% of guitar players cannot read music(tabs don't count). The ones that can read music and play more than three chords are cool I guess. I take music a little seriously though, not meaning to offend anyone lol, but I'm sure other music majors can relate.

Count me in as one of the loathed. Can't read music, unless 'every good boy does fine' counts. A few chords and a few scales to make up simple melodies is all I've got.

I don't claim to be a musician. I do have fun with my guitar though and my wife hasn't thrown it out the door yet!

[Edial]

...

I don't claim to be a musician. I do have fun with my guitar though and my wife hasn't thrown it out the door yet!
:D :) .

Lutheran wives are hard to find. :D

(I'm laughing at my own jokes again ...)

[RadMan]

:D :) .

Lutheran wives are hard to find. :D

(I'm laughing at my own jokes again ...)You got that right. A conservative Lutheran lady is a rare find. They all seem to be married. :sigh:

[maylor]

:D :) .

Lutheran wives are hard to find. :D

(I'm laughing at my own jokes again ...)

Yea, my wife says to me: "I like your guitar playing....honest". God bless her.

[RadMan]

Actually when you play chords with both hands and the feet on the organ it is an automatic response. Once you have the chords memorized it easier to be able to play with all extremities. Knowing positions of chords is not like trying to play each individual note seperatly from the rest. I remember years ago teaching brand new students on piano or organ and having them playing simple songs with both hands in a month. You have to know the tricks.

[latebloomer]

Like Synger, I inherited a piano when my parents downsized a few years ago. It came with all my old lesson books and whatever else Mom had collected over the years. I was surprised how fast some of it came back. I don't have much time to practice right now. I'd like to learn to play guitar. When I was in school, I played the clarinet--not well. I played next-to-last chair in the junior high band, I think because I was alphabetically ahead of the girl in last chair. My band career ended about 8th grade.

I have some talented in-laws. My husband's brothers had a rock band when they were in high school. I understand they had a chance at a record contract but they turned it down to go to college and become accountants instead. My husband's nephew plays clarinet in the United States Marine Corps Band, "The President's Own".

[NordicLutheran]

How to win friends and influence people. :doh: :)
Well that's not taken out of context. :)

[LutheranMafia]

I don't care much for the sound of a regular clarinet :sorry: (I think it's because it's the clarinetists who always perform in school of music recitals, and I've had my fill of them ^_^), but I do like the bass clarinet. Oh, and I once heard some famous German clarinetist play who got the most amazing, beautiful sound out of his instrument.
Hey, you should listen to some Gene Kelly (best known for Singing in the Rain). Only a woodwind player could, at 70, still play a romantic lead opposite a 20-something like Olivia Neutron-Bomb. The movie was a flop, but the soundtrack is a classic, one of the best movie soundtracks ever made. It just got turned into a Broadway musical.

Speaking of bass clarinets, those bad boys are HARD to play. When I was in high school I sat next to the bass clarinetist, and she wanted to try out my saxophone, and gave me her bass clarinet in exchange. She immediately started tootin out a tune, while I couldn't get anything but crude honks out of her bass clarinet. I don't know if regular clarinets are as hard to play, I never exchanged saliva with any other clarinetists. :D:cool:

[PreachersWife2004]

You do realize that in some band circles, you were "going with" the girl you exchanged instruments with, right? ^_^

I never found bass to be hard to play but I've always been full of hot air, so that could be why.

My alto on the other hand has proven to be a challenge for me. Don't know why though.

[LutheranMafia]

You do realize that in some band circles, you were "going with" the girl you exchanged instruments with, right? ^_^ Yeah, she got that whole tongue/reed thing all confused with both me and my buddy. But after I puckered up to the piccolo player she was furious with me, not him, and when everyone found out I was playing paddy cake with the pianist she wouldn’t sit next to me anymore…!

[DaRev]

You do realize that in some band circles, you were "going with" the girl you exchanged instruments with, right? ^_^

I never found bass to be hard to play but I've always been full of hot air, so that could be why.

My alto on the other hand has proven to be a challenge for me. Don't know why though.

The contrabass takes a fair amount of wind to play as well.

[Melethiel]

I finally got a copy of the piece I played in a recital last semester. :)

Te Deum - Reger (http://www.zshare.net/audio/63576153df1554/)

[DaRev]

I finally got a copy of the piece I played in a recital last semester. :)

Te Deum - Reger (http://www.zshare.net/audio/63576153df1554/)

Beautiful!!

You wouldn't consider moving to PA, would you? Our organist is resigning at the end of March. :P But you'd have to play an Allen. :D

[Melethiel]

Beautiful!!

You wouldn't consider moving to PA, would you? Our organist is resigning at the end of March. :P But you'd have to play an Allen. :D
I love PA. Got turned down from my top pick med school there though, and still waiting to hear from the other.

But an Allen? Get yourself some nice pipes. :P

[DaRev]

But an Allen? Get yourself some nice pipes. :P

I would LOVE a pipe organ in here. They used to have one years ago, but it was costly to keep up so they got rid of it. BIG mistake. :sigh:

[PreachersWife2004]

My church doesn't even have pipes. It even cheats and lets the person play the pedal line on the keys instead.

My organ at my old church kicked booty, but I can't remember what kind it is now.

[maylor]

I finally got a copy of the piece I played in a recital last semester. :)

Te Deum - Reger (http://www.zshare.net/audio/63576153df1554/)

Awesome! enjoyed that very much, thank you.

[LutheranMafia]

My alto on the other hand has proven to be a challenge for me. Don't know why though.
Have you tried a soprano sax? You are in a small club, there aren't many lady sax players. There use to be Martha Davis from the Motels and more recently Candy Dulfer, but that is about all I can come up with.

So who is your favorite sax player? I like old Coltrane when he was with Johnny Hartman, like My One and Only Love, probably one of the most requested songs at weddings, which is rather ironic considering how utterly tortured later Coltrane works are. But my favorite all time sax player is Ben Webster. It is the all time best make-out music ever recorded. :kiss::kiss:

But Ben Webster only covered old standards, so when it comes to saxophonists that are writers, I like David Sanborn the best.

[PreachersWife2004]

I don't play sax, LM. I play clarinet. Regular, alto, contra and bass clarinet. Didn't mean to confuse you.

However, I like Dave Koz as far as sax players go, even though I'm not a big fan of jazz. Of course Kenny G is nice, too, but that just seems too cliche.

[LutheranMafia]

However, I like Dave Koz as far as sax players go, even though I'm not a big fan of jazz. Of course Kenny G is nice, too, but that just seems too cliche.*Choke* *gag* *ACK*!

Actually, speaking of Gene Kelly I heard a Kenny G / Gene Kelly duet that was shockingly good. In fact the whole album was amazingly good, each song was a different duet with some famous old musician. Ordinarily Kenny G drives me absolutely nuts, like chalk on a chalkboard, his playing is so technical and stale, his style has no soul of its own, but when you pair him with someone who does have their own well developed style, Kenny G can do a fantastic accompaniment.

[PreachersWife2004]

Totally agree. I was a method player in high school, though, so Kenny G was fantastic back then.

These days, I tend to listen to Laurie Berkner and Barney so my music choices are somewhat limited... ^_^

[Edial]

I finally got a copy of the piece I played in a recital last semester. :)

Te Deum - Reger (http://www.zshare.net/audio/63576153df1554/)
I cannot help but associate playing organ with a surrounding of a castle or a cathedral.
And I associate it with a warhorse type of playing where all the bells and whistles are being used.

Unlike other types of musical instruments, a hearer needs to experience organ with his inner being, skin and then ears.
Organ music needs to permeate everything around it.

Please accept some belated constructive criticism. :)
This is a huge leap in a positive direction from when you were 16.

It has a much better depth and aura.
In some places it is actually carrying a hearer.
It was an effective playing.

I liked it very much ... especially the last chord.
It was of a perfect lenght and depth and it actually gave me some goose bumps. :)

I downloaded it. :)

You are doing good.

Thanks, :)
Ed

[Melethiel]

Why thank you Ed. :)
Now that I finally learned how to play notes, my teacher has been drilling style into my head the entire past few months. :doh: :D

[DaRev]

Why thank you Ed. :)
Now that I finally learned how to play notes, my teacher has been drilling style into my head the entire past few months. :doh: :D

With a hand auger or a power drill? ^_^

[Melethiel]

With a hand auger or a power drill? ^_^
both :D

[LutheranMafia]

Sorry, it is a link too a piano playing house cat. I should have gone ahead and cut too the punch line. My apologies.