How many instruments do you own?

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Bert
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 12:27 AM

6 guitars
1 ukulele
1 santur
1 Puerto Rican Cuatro
1 Yamaha keyboard
2 cheapie keyboards
2 recorders
1 Yugoslavian whistle
1 Wurltitzer organ
1 oldie power blown reed organ
1 Far Eastern touristy type fiddle
2 Gut buckets
1 1/4 size fiddle
Assorted percussion junk, tambourine, castanets etc.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Genie
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 02:26 AM

about 32

Genie

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 08:56 PM

OOPS! I forgot one...I own a washboard, and yes, I have played it. :D

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: pict
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 09:26 PM

1 12 string acoustic guitar 5 6 string acoustic guitars 1 nylon string guitar 4 electric guitars(1 fretless tele) 1 mandolin 6 feadagan(whistles) 1 recorder 1 flute(boehm) 2 saxophones (1 Conn "Chu Berry" tenor)1 alto (Martin "Typewriter") 1 Cello 1 fiddle 1 Oboe 3 electric basses(5 string,4 string,and fretless) 10 synthesizers 1 midi wind controller 1 electronic drumkit 1 drum machine 1 chord zither 1 Bodhran 1 set of Tabla 1 Bechstein Studio Piano(excellent instrument) a load of studio gear

and at the end of May.......

A full set of quad bored 4 regulator,3 drone,Taylor replica uillean pipes.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: pict
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 09:43 PM

Oh and an old Danish Harmonium but two keys don't work.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 10:26 PM

Hey, I feel deprived around here! :-). I have one fiddle. Good, though.

chanteyranger

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Mitch the Bass
Date: 19 Apr 02 - 08:14 AM

Saltarelle Melodeon 2 Hohner Melodeons Hohner Gaelic Button Accordion Crabb Anglo Concertina Lachenal Baritone Anglo Concertina Wheatstone English Concertina Wheatstone Baritone English Concertina Double Bass Bridge Electric Double Bass Acoustic Bass Guitar Electric Bass Guitar Banjo Autoharp Eb Tenor Horn Bb Baritone Horn Eb Tuba Various tin whistles Various three hole pipes and a tabour Side Drum Northumbrian Pipes

Mitch

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,not a guest please fix my bicky [cookie] mr
Date: 03 May 02 - 08:46 PM

1 D/G melodeon

1 B/C button accordion

piles of vampers

piles of tin whisyles

piles

piles of plectra

1 C harmonica

1 chromatic/ [rheumatic?] guitar

2 melodeon players thumbs

and a partridge in a paired tree!

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,i'm not a guest mr happy
Date: 03 May 02 - 08:50 PM

also:

1 bontempi chord organ [not concert pitch]

1 really old italian chord organ [in concert pitch]

1 unmusical cookie unfixed

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: michaelr
Date: 03 May 02 - 08:51 PM

Yes, please, everyone tell us: how many instruments do you own, how much are they worth... oh, and what exactly is your address?

;-) Michael

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,mr happy
Date: 03 May 02 - 08:56 PM

oh i forgot

'er indoors brought back from japan a hybrid of shamisen/autoharp. i can play 'doh a dear' on it

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,mr happy
Date: 03 May 02 - 09:00 PM

michaelr

myob

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Melani
Date: 03 May 02 - 11:51 PM

Three guitars, one harp, two mountain dulcimers (well, three, but one was a movie prop and strung with fishing line), one tamborine, and about 30 flutes and whistles of various quality from crappy to great. Wish I could play them all.

Those are just mine. I'm not counting the banjo, mandolins, bodhran and other drums belonging to my husband, son and daughter. Wish they could play them all.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: YOR
Date: 04 May 02 - 12:05 AM

Wow, bad GAS around here!

Ibanez electric/acoustic Epi SG (modified with Gibson 57 classic pickups of course) Jackson Performer PS4 (floyd rose),(no I'm not a metal head, it can be played very clean, really!

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 04 May 02 - 06:54 AM

3 banjos (Lo Gordon, Deering, Korean) 1 guitar (Yamaha) 1 banjo ukulele (John Grey)
2 fiddles (19th C German)
2 Jaws harps
5 harmonicas (diatonic)
Some tin whistles (2 or 3)
A couple of nice looking but useless third world whistle type things
1 Swannee whistle
A few kazoos
1 Earthenware Jug
1 Charango
1 Peruvian pan's pipes (Zampona)
1 Ocarina
1 metal bowl from the Himalayas which sings beautifully when you hit it with a stick

Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: 53
Date: 04 May 02 - 11:05 AM

Wow, more more more, that should be the name of this thread. Bob

Subject: How many instruments do you own?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 08:52 PM

Brand? Model? Year of production? Why so many? Why so few?
{:-( ))=

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 09:17 PM

Three Gibsons, a couple of classicals, a Takamine and three I made myself. Oops and three concertinas. And I've been thinking of making an acoustic twin neck guitar/ mandolin.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 09:26 PM

Three Gibsons, a couple of classicals, a Takamine and three I made myself. Oops and three concertinas. And I've been thinking of making an acoustic twin neck guitar/ mandolin.

That was me. I forgot about the fiddles, three or four, some leant out and some just lost. I made a hammered dulcimer once but managed to give it away.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 10:39 PM

1 Leeds guitar, OOOO, custom made by Ivon Schmuckler,
1 1927 Gibson archtop 5 string conversion. Repro neck by Providence Guitar & Banjo
2 Mandolins; a 1951 Martin A and a 1974 Crow Peak blackface A (in need of repair)
1 Morgan Monroe square neck resonator
1 Orlando 12 string set up and tuned Lead Belly style (down to B)
1 12 bar Autoharp, formerly owned by Utah Phillips
1 Jews Harp
1 Kazoo
18 harmonicas

Hoping to get a Gold Tone Long Neck Tubaphone soon. Anyone have one for sale?

I would love to have a square neck National Tricone, but I don't have 4 grand on hand.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 12:15 AM

A Petersen, British [Manchester] made but Spanish/classical style nylon strung guitar, 35 years old but maintains tone and tuning

A five-string banjo, good tone but no maker's name, inherited from a friend's father some years ago

6-bar G/Em autoharp, probably Edwardian, bought about 45 years ago for £4.10.0(four pounds, ten shillings = £4.50) at Hammond's Auction Rooms, Cambridge

Two Lachenal wooden ended 30-key Anglo-German concertinas: a seven-fold C/G bought from Neil Wayne who dated it about 1905 though its serial # was missing, which was subsequently serviced and rebellowed by Crabb's of Islington; and a six-fold D/A, numbered, dated 1912. {I had a newly-made Crabb metal ended F/B♭, but found it rather harsh to sing to, my main use of these instruments, so sold it}

Small djembe-type drum, new from Oxfam IIRC

Tambourine

All above except the last can be heard on my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/mgmyer

Have owned, but no longer, several predecessors to present guitar, incl a [possible] Gibson acoustic which fell off a wall and broke, and an Aria [Japanese] nylon-strung classical acoustic; and a ukulele banjo, bought at Miller's of Cambridge, which I sold when inherited above banjo

~Michael~

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 07:19 PM

Nothing worth dying for.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Oct 12 - 08:04 PM

17 guitars I think.
3 ukes. 1 banjo.
1 mandolin. About 6 or 7 lap steels.
Several harmonicas.
2 jew's harps. A kazoo I believe.
A set of conga drums.
1 electric bass.
Brands?
Gibson, Fender, Magnatone, Rickenbacker, Electromuse, Squier, Peavey, Vega, Epiphone, Dobro, National Resophonic, Acoustic ( made by Mosrite),Taylor, Larrivee, Seagull, Godin,Harmony, Hohner, Silvertone, Aloha, Latin Percussion,, maybe a couple more.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 03:27 AM

Before 52 Folk Songs:

four whistles (C, high G and two Ds)
recorder (plastic, Aulos)
flute
toy reed organ
small pair of bongoes, bought in about 1975, never used


After 52 Folk Songs:

four whistles (C, high G and two Ds)
recorder (plastic, Aulos)
recorder (wood, Moeck)
flute
toy reed organ
melodica
English concertina
zither
ukulele
small pair of bongoes, bought in about 1975

The most recent acquisition was the uke, which I'm still finding my way around. You can hear all of them on 52 Folk Songs; most of them (including the uke) feature on this track.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 03:41 AM

LOL Kendall, how right you are!

Me? Four guitars, a mandolin and a gob-iron (I can play the guitars and mandolin, the gob-iron completely baffles me).

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 02:12 PM

According to my wife, one more than I need. Of course, if I get rid of one she'll still insist I have one more than I need.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: IvanB
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 02:14 PM

Last post was I, sans cookie.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Murpholly
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 02:46 PM

Bagpipes, small pipes, piano accordian, button accordian, melodian, concertina, guitar, banjo, 5 string banjo, mandolin, fiddle, three ukelelies, innumerable whistles and four mouth organs, bodhrun and shaman drum, electric organ and harmonium, jew's harp, kazoo, panpipes,auto harp, harp, recorder(s) and whatever else will fit in a drawer rather than hang on a wall.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Oct 12 - 06:29 PM

Two guitars and a voice of sorts.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 24 Oct 12 - 04:48 AM

1 x budget Martin DX1CE acoustic guitar
1 x Ian Chisholm spruce and cocobolo acoustic guitar
1 x Freshwater octave mandolin
1 x Ian Chisholm flatback mandolin
1 x Epiphone Les Paul "Black Beauty" electric guitar
1 x Harmonica ( that I can't play)
1 x Generation "C" whistle
1 x Generation "D" whistle
1 x Washburn Rover travel guitar
1 x Vintage acoustic guitar kept in Scotland for climbing trips

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 24 Oct 12 - 04:56 AM

Looking around as I type...

Violin (German / 1929)
Violin (Amatuer made, Didsbury. MCR / 1930)
5-string 'Pie Crust' violin (aka 'Accursed Viol' / Chinese made)
NS electric violin
Korg Kaossilator
Kaossilator Pro
Diverse cheapo Behinger stomp boxes (flangers, delays etc.)
Boss looper
SM57
Electronic shruti box
Indian pocket trumpet
Karadeniz Kemence (Turkey)
Welsh pattern medieval Crwth by Tim Hobrough
Breton pattern Crowd by Tim Hobrough
Hummel (Swedish folk instrument 1880)
Citera (Hungarian folk art treen circa 1850)
Citera (Hungarian 1980)
Vielle (Medieval fiddle / Chinese made)
Vielle (Medieval fiddle / John Savage, UK)
Tupian Chalumeau in C
C Clarinet (simple, 1920)
Bb Clarinet (simple, 1920)
10 tuned Doromb (Jew's Harps) by Zolton Szilagyi
Diverse Double drone whistles & Folk flutes from Yugoslavia, Slovakia etc.
Innumerable Jew's Harps from all corners of the human world (Dan Moi, Khomus, Scacciapensieri, Murchanga etc. etc.)
Low D whistle by Iain Wood
Various cheapo whistles & recorders (Generation, Clarks, Faedog, Aulos, Dolmetsch etc.)
Hohner button Melodica Alto
Self-made end & cross blown bamboo flutes
Overtone & harmonic flutes
Diverse Hunting horns
Indian harmonium (domestic)
Indian harmonium (portable / laptop style)
Various Chinese Gongs
Various Singing Bowls
Various African thumb-pianos
Burmese Kyeezee
4 dumbeks (various sizes)
Remo Fibreskyn Frame drum
Bendir
Bodhran (played as frame drum with snares)
Diverse Bells (Animal bells, wooden bells, ankle bells, Chamonix bells, Noah bells, Camel bells, Tiger bells...)
Diverse Fowler & hunter calls
Diverse Bird warblers
Stylophone
Chinese Er-Hu
Antique Tenor horn
Monovalve bugle
Troll Pipe (home-made one-man band flute / bowed drone & bell combination - click for sound sample)

Time for a clear out I think...

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,banjoman
Date: 24 Oct 12 - 05:09 AM

Too many to count really but its at leasr 30 banjos -most of which I made - 12 guitars a bouzouki, mandolin, fiddle steel guitar, bass guitar, irish harp, drum kit and about 50 whistles & recorders of various sorts. Still to check in the spare room

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Oct 12 - 10:24 PM

At the moment I own four "pennywhistles" which I bought on my trip to Ireland. However, I will soon give them to my grands.

Oh, I own an upright grand piano. Too bad I can't play it!

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: banjoman
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 05:52 AM

Sorry I forgot that I also have a piano

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 06:30 AM

And I forgot my Hare Harp. This is a small 16-striong gut strung instrument based on the Anglo-Norman (Romanesque?!) harps one sees frequently illustrated in Medieval manuscripts. It was made by Tim Hobrough in 1981 which means it's been with me now for over 30 years. Here's a wee recitative of various HareLore in which I accompany myself on the Hare Harp, which is pretty much identical to the one in the picture:

The Names of the Hare

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 06:52 AM

a kangaroo, a sausage, three bottles of dandelion and burdock, a bag of crisps and a pair of pliers.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 11:48 AM

I think "What would you call a good night out?" is on another thread.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 25 Oct 12 - 01:21 PM

Al & Phil: ROFLMAO, or something...
Here's a strange thing: if you have books full of used postage stamps, it's called a collection; a cellar full of wine at £500 a sip, it's a collection; barn full of cars... a collection; a room given over to pictures of Elvis...you guessed ...a collection. You can collect match boxes, buttons, theatre programmes, toenail clippings, and I once heard of a girl who collected split ends. But if you have more than three musical instruments, it's called Instrument Acquisition Syndrome. They just don't understand, do they?
I'll get around to listing mine when I've got half an hour to spare.
John Kelly.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 11:44 AM

Actually, this reminds me of something I heard recently - might have been Jeff Lynne, quoting somebody else: " If you know how many guitars you've got, you haven't got enough."
JK

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 12:01 PM

I actually did lose count about 7 or 8 years ago...

If ever my wife moans about my obsessive collecting & hoarding of musical gear,
I just remind her she should be thankful
we don't live in America..

because she knows I'd be seriously tempted to collect Guns as well...

[Well... sorry.. that's provincial English boys raised on Cowboy and Secret Agent movies & TV series..]

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 02:45 PM

Lessee... 6 guitars, Clavinova, homebrew practice electronic "pipe" organ, bagpipes, Appalachian dulcimer, bodhran, melodica. I think that covers it. Not counting the innumerable penny whistles, practice bagpipe chanters, hand drums, bamboo flutes, blocks and triangles and sticks and such that are always tumbling out of closets and floating to the top of sock drawers....

No, 7 guitars if you count the Fender bass.... then again one of the guitars is Mrs Highlandman's and another is my son's, so that's down to 5.

Oh, there's a fretless Romanian lute and some incomprehensible cane fiddle thing downstairs as well. I tend to forget those because I can't play them. And my son has a violin (or fiddle, I forget which).

And then there's all the pieces of instruments...
If these were the only things I accumulated, my house would be neat.

-G

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,highlandman at work
Date: 26 Oct 12 - 02:51 PM

Oh, and I forgot a 1950s Hammond RT-2 (like a C3 but with a separate speaker cab -- slightly more portable than a steel rolling mill) that's at my mom's because it won't fit in my place. Guess I should start thinking about finding better homes for some of these? -G

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 04:18 AM

Well, since I bought one last weekend, traded another and bought one last night, I think I'm up to 18 guitars now. And I have 4 ukes. Not 3. I just don't know where one is. And I'm buying a banjo today. The poor economy has made guitar buying a dream come true. So many great deals. And I'm helping my fellow American. Not the corporate giants that outsource so much production to Asia.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 04:28 AM

Martin D18
Mugen 12-string
Dean Resonator
Fender Telecaster
'55 Les Paul Jnr (reissue, dammit!)
Dean 6-string banjo converted to a tenor neck
1905 mandolin
Melody Major banjolin
Kala uke
Edwardian-era Portuguese guitarra
Old Anglo concertina

And for madame:
Bodhran (sneaking in to keep company with the musical instruments)
Various shakers and whistles.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 05:15 AM

Some people call it their collection. I call it my Instrumentarium, to which I might add...

2 Overton 3-hole pipes in low-D & G - and the tiny tuned dumbek I use as a 'tabor'.
Alto Eb Clarinet
Weltmeister 88 bass accordion
Indian 'Echo' Cornet
Turkish baglama saz
Turkish cura saz
Diverse ACME whizz sirens, whoopee whistles & other 'sound effects'.
Sedayne-made bowed lyre 'Jouhikko' circa 1983
Sedayne-made bowed lyre 'Talharp' 1983 (modified as 7 string 'Biblical Advent Harp' circa 1997)
Fretless Hofner Congress - the only 'guitar' I own. Here's a wee film of me playing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEgk0U2D0IQ

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 03:11 PM

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.....

Collapsible four-octave harmonium (actually an American Organ), marked Nishikawa & Son, but probably by Mason & Hamlin 18880s/90s?
Non-collapsible ditto, marked Nishikawa & Sons, so presumably later, actual maker unknown.
Five-octave organ. Can't remember the make, and can't get at it to check. Until I dismantle it to fix the bellows, I don't know whether it's a harmonium or an American.
Indian harmonium by Dwarkin - the company credited with the development of the instrument.
Harmoniflute (AKA lap organ), no name, but almost certainly Buisson Btevette, Paris, Ca1850s.
Guitar, Fylde Falstaff. 1979.
Fylde Signature cittern, 2005, I think.
Bohm Waldzither, date unknown, probably first half of 20thC
National tricone plectrum guitar, Ca1928.
Mandolinetto (guitar- shaped mandolin) Neopolitan Patent Mandolin Co. Date unknown.
Langeleik, made by me, Ca 1974.
Rather unauthentic rebec, by me also Ca '74.
Psaltery, me again, Ca'79.
Bowed psaltery, me Ca'73.
Balalaika, Perl Gold, Ca '68.
Cheapo Chinese ukelele, can't remember the make (Skylark?) and it's not to hand. C1970?
Hungarian cetera, date unknown, but modern. Not to hand to check maker.
Spanish laud, Greek bouzouki, Comments as above.
Baroque guitar, by me, 1991.
Tenor viol, John Rose copy, me, 1990.
Renaissance 6-course lute, me, 1989.
Fiddle (or violin, if you want to be proper), unknown make and date.
Ditto, ditto, but pre- 1883.
Neopolitan mandolin, date unknown, and not to hand, so can't ckeck maker.
Mandriola (12-stringmandolin), make and date unknown, but probably early 20thC.
Ukrainian concert bandoura. Make unpronounceable (by me, anyway), and date unknown, but modern.
Unfinished ottavino (octave spinet) from Woods kit.
One-string Stroh fonofiddle. Early 20thC.
Lira da Braccio (Renaissance 7-string bourdon fiddle) by me, 1991. (Currently out on loan)
7-string fretless banjo. George P Matthew, Ca1880s.
6-string fretless banjo, of unknown make or date, but probably 1880s.
Crappy longarm banjo, East European make, I think. Probably '70s.
Short-scale 5-string banjo (A-scale, or maybe Ladies' banjo). S S Stewart 2nd grade. date unknown.
Short-scale tenor banjo, of unknown make or date, probably prewar.
Composite Pony (short-scale banjeurine). I think the neck might be a Stewart, but I'm not an expert. Date unknown.
Banjolin. Despite any ideas you might get from sellers on Ebay, this is NOT a mandolin banjo. It's a different instrument. Not a lot of people know that. Make and date unknown, but early 20thC
Mandolin banjo. Waliostro 'Zither Mandolin'. Early 20thC.
Composite mandolin banjo; neck from a Portuguese mandolin banjo married to the pot from a John Grey uke banjo. Date unknown.
Piano; Chappell overstrung upright with concert keyboard. My mother got it as a reconditioned instrument around 1969, so original date unknown.
Renaissance bass flute in G, Barbara Stanley, Ca 1978.
Baroque flute, Stanley Toulson, Ca 1980.
My Grandad's F band flute, Ca 1900.
A 4-keyed boxwood F flute, unknown make, date unknown, but probably early 19thC.
My Grandad's Bflat fife. unknown date, can;t remember make, but think it has a Liverpool name on it.
Rudall Carte 6-keyed piccolo, unknown date.
Half dozen assorted fifes/piccolos, 1- 4- 5 and 6-keyed, in A, Bflat, D E flat and high F.
Renaissance soprano recorder by Moeck, Ca 1978
Sopranino recorder, think it's marked Boosey & Hawkes, Ca 1979.
Garkleinfloetlein, Hopf, Ca1977.
Alto & tenor crumhorns, J Wood, C 1975.
Soprano rauschpfeife (stricktly speaking, we're supposed to call it a scheierpfeife these days but old habits... Gunter Korber,Ca1973.
Alto Shawm, Gunter Korber, Ca1980.
Spanish gaita, make unknown, Ca 1976
Cheapo highland pipes. Probably Pakistani make, but with McLeod chanter. Early '70s.
English (Northumbrian) double pipes. Julian Goodacre, 2007, IIRC.
Tunisian reed pipe. 1970s.
Musette (Simple oboe). Funkenstein, Birkenhead, date unknown.
Half a dozen Jew's harps.
Several ocarinas.
Various whistles,end-blown and side-blown bamboo flutes. (Including D Shaw, Generation, Clarkes and Anon) and one or two oddball whistly things I can't put a name to.
Mute cornet. John Hanchet, 1970s.
Bass rackett. J Wood, Ca 1974.
Cow horn. Think I got it in Fort William in the '70s
Hohner chroatic harmonica, date unknown; somebody gave it to me around 1970.
15 or so diatonic harmonicas, including, Seydel Super lows in lowG Low A Low Bflat and lowC, Hohner special 20 low D, Suzuki promaster, Lee Oskar and Hohner Gs, Super Vampers (late '70s and till working!) in A & B, Hohners in Bflat, C D, F,Fsharp and a piccolo G.
Three-row button box (Csharp/D/G with 14 basses). Saltarelle Tramontane, bought secon-hand around 2004.
C system button box, 78 bass with converter for freebass. Pigini, bought second hand around 2005.
English treble concertina 48-key, Lachenal, unknown date.
Crane duet concertina. Henry Crabb, 8-sided 62-key. Date unknown.
Hayden duet concertina. Bastari no. 2 square model, 67-key.
Flutina. no name, but almost certainly Buisson Brevette, Paris, C1850s.
Old Hohner 1-row pokerwork melodeon in C. unknown date.
Small (8 bass) Hohner piano accordian. Date unknown.
Bodhran, and 2 tabors by trefor Owen, mid '70s
Bodhran of unknown make, C2005.
Pair Renaissance kettledrums, '70s
Chinese spirit drom.
Finger cymbals, bones, stepping clogs, morris clogs, washboard.
Half dozen other things which aren't mine, but loaned, left to see if I can sort them out, or in one case, left with me to get them out of the way of an acrimonious divorce.
My son and daughter, between them have half a dozen guitars, a cavalquinho (SP?) violin, flute, alto sax, trombone, euphonium, alto recorder, plectrum banjo, tenor banjo, glockenspiel, 5-drum kit, pair of timbales and 3 cowbells, a keyboard (or clothes shelf, to be more accurate - it lives in my daughter's room), and some other odds and ends of percussion. Oh, and some Irish dance shoes.
How many's that? Can\t be arsed counting.
JK.

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 03:15 PM

And a tambourine.
JK

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 03:18 PM

I just added a Deering Boston banjo to my herd.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 03:27 PM

This year I have mainly been bidding on ebay for 'cloned' vintage fuzz boxes...

I've managed to not buy any guitars for getting on 2 years.............

Subject: RE: How many instruments do you own?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 27 Oct 12 - 03:49 PM

So many great deals now with the bad economy. I might start looking for my first accordion. Any recommendations?
=(:-( ))