If you could be the best player in the world...

[Robert]

Which would be your instrument of choice?

I would pick saxophone. It is so expressive compared to guitar. Well, wind instruments in general have this, so trumpet would be cool too. :)

[Jimi75]

I have picked the violin, for I wished to play in an symphonic orchestra, travel the world and also record movie soundtracks with that orchestra. The violin has ever fascinated me since I was a kid.

[R_of_G]

Without question it would be the piano. I find it the most diverse and expressive of all instruments, plus it opens up the possibilities of it's electronic cousins like the Rhodes and the B-3.

[duhvoodooman]

Call me predictable, but.....GUITAR. It's been far & away my favorite instrument since the mid '60's.

Guess that makes me a maverick here on the piano-saxophone-violin forum.... :rolleyes: :poke: ;)

[Blaze]

Hammond B3 would be my choice , truly an unique soulful instrument..

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Piano is so complete too..



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[Robert]

Duhvoodooman, man you don't really fit in here! :D What is that thing you talk about - "guitar"? Hmm... have to look that up :D ;)

[sunvalleylaw]

I picked guitar too. For selfish reasons I guess. I love piano, but you cannot take them everywhere with you. I love the expression of wind instruments, but they do not do the lush chords a stringed instrument can. Guitars can play a base line, rhythm chords, leads, you can do percussion on the body or strings, or mix them all together, and you can do it about anywhere. Thus that is the one I could enjoy most.




Did I just use the word "thus" on a guitar forum? :thwap: ;) I have been doing too much legal work lately. :D

[sumitomo]

I vote guitar,but check this out when I was growing up(I still am!)I asked my mom to buy this guitar I just had to have,no,no was the answer over and over but she would buy me a tenor sax and she would pay for all the lessons ect.I never took the bait.Sumi:D

[Spudman]

You left poker off the list.:cool:

Guitar for me.
I like the physical properties of it. Unlike a wind instrument you can play and sing at the same time on guitar thereby giving more than one instrument the ability to participate. The more the merrier.:)

[Rocket]

If?

[Robert]

Fixed the speeling.

[marnold]

What--no sousaphone option?

I'd either have to say guitar or pipe organ.

[Fab4]

Let's see, I have (currently) 20 guitars, five guitar amps, three guitar pedal boards, a couple of drawers full of guitar parts and guitar pickups...I'd definitely have to go with jaw harp. Man, do chicks ever dig a hot-rockin' jaw harp player!

[Robert]

I forgot the add the Theremin:

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[markb]

Guitar of course. To (mis?)quote Eddie Lang, "...the guitar is the perfect instrument. The only one able to comp like a piano and sing like a horn".

[street music]

No doubt it would be guitar but the piano-organ as second choice.

[sumitomo]

[I'd definitely have to go with jaw harp. Man, do chicks ever dig a hot-rockin' jaw harp player![/QUOTE]


Only the one's who can lick their eyebrows! Sumi:D

[Fab4]

[I'd definitely have to go with jaw harp. Man, do chicks ever dig a hot-rockin' jaw harp player!


Only the one's who can lick their eyebrows! Sumi:D[/QUOTE]

Does Gene Simmons play jaw harp, too!?! I bet it messed with his makeup...

[just strum]

I picked guitar earlier this morning - reason: Ditto SVL

[ragnarpk]

i would tear up the harmonica scene with my virtuoso.....ing.

[sumitomo]

Only the one's who can lick their eyebrows! Sumi:D

Does Gene Simmons play jaw harp, too!?! I bet it messed with his makeup...[/QUOTE]

You know you made me think about this and I tried the Jawharp when I was a kid and it hurt like he!! when I got my tongue caught in that sucker on I don't have a big ole long tongue,so I dont think people with big ole long tongue's can play 'em.Sumi:D

[Kazz]

Guitar is the only instrument I ever really wanted to play.

[hubberjub]

I would pick the piano. You unknowingly pick up music theory when you learn the piano. Scales, chord structure, voice leading, it's all there. It also becomes very easy to apply that knowledge to other instruments. Every pianist I know is proficient at several other instruments as well as the piano.

[Jimi75]

I forgot the add the Theremin:

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Bonamassa's been using this "tool" recently.

[tot_Ou_tard]

Since you didn't list any of the instruments native to my planet--no the Theramin is a primitive wiggy-woggy thing compared with them, I picked guitar.

It reeks of both sex & transcendence.

[R_of_G]

It reeks of both sex & transcendence.

So, um, Tot, how exactly do you play your guitar that it reeks of that? :thwap:

[Mr Grumpy]

Of the options listed, guitar. If I could be the worlds finest player of anything though, it would be the chapman stick.

[tot_Ou_tard]

So, um, Tot, how exactly do you play your guitar that it reeks of that? :thwap: I'd post videos, but then I'd get banned from several universes at once.