Reply With QuoteI 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.
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If you could be the best player in the world...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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Hammond B3 would be my choice , truly an unique soulful instrument..
Piano is so complete too..
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Duhvoodooman, man you don't really fit in here!What is that thing you talk about - "guitar"? Hmm... have to look that up
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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?:
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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
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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.
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If you could be the best player in the wor(l)d...
If?
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Fixed the speeling.
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What--no sousaphone option?
I'd either have to say guitar or pipe organ.
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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!
Q: How many guitars is enough?
A: Just one more...
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I forgot the add the Theremin:
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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".
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No doubt it would be guitar but the piano-organ as second choice.
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[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
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Originally Posted by sumitomo
Only the one's who can lick their eyebrows! Sumi
Does Gene Simmons play jaw harp, too!?! I bet it messed with his makeup...
Q: How many guitars is enough?
A: Just one more...
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I picked guitar earlier this morning - reason: Ditto SVL
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