What instruments do you have?

Subject: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,MBSLynne
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 02:42 PM

Just looking round our house I was amazed at the number and variety of different musical instruaments we have. What have you got? We've got: a baby grand piano, two electric guitars and an accoustic, five mandolins, six recorders, a fife, a flute, an oboe, a French horn, a penny whistle, three ocarinas, three didgeridoos, a bodhran, four post horns, a Tibetan dragon horn, various assorted percussion thingies including a triangle, shakey eggs and maracas, two kazoos and a number of odd bits and pieces that have been bought for the kids over the years. There may well be other things I haven't thought of. Phew!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 02:55 PM

Guitar, harmony chord, harmonicas.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 02:56 PM

. . . and an autoharp that I can't play well.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 03:39 PM

Sounds like a good excuse for a yard sale

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 05:34 PM

a flute, two fiddles (one old one new), several of Tone's old guitars, a concertina or two, a harp, a banjo, a mandolin (I think), a piano, a harmonica or three, several recorders, three penny whistles, a kazoo... and the usual collection of Sidmouth shaky eggs and bells.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:08 PM

Six 6-string flat-top guitars, two 12-string guitars, one arch-top guitar, one nylon-strung guitar, one resonator-guitar, two electric guitars, one half-size travel guitar, two 5-string banjos, one tenor banjo, one mandolin, one banjo-mandolin, three hammer dulcimers, one Autoharp, one bowed psaltry, two bodhrans and a few percussion thingies.   

Please note the absence of anything having bellows or a spit valve.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,CarolC
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:09 PM

6 (I think, maybe 7) guitars
3 recorders (soprano, alto, tenor)
4 (I think) penny whistles
3 piano accordions
1 electronic keyboard
1 bodhran
1 monkey drum
And a shakey banana

(I think that's everything, but I'm not sure... )

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Wrinkles
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:27 PM

A 12 string eko ranger guitar (tuned DADF#AD)
A 6 string eko KD 28 guitar (tuned DXGDAE)
A half-size guitar (romainian) (tuned GCFBbDG)
A new Brunswick guitar (standard tuning)
Three other guitars, 3/4 size, and 2 12 strings, destined to become guitar bodied; octave mandolin, an 8 string accoustic bass, and a 10 string waldzither; respectivly.

One metal Kazoo and two "penny" whistles; Bb and D

Wrinkles

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: NH Dave
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:34 PM

A guitar, banjo, accordian, several tin whistles, an Apalachian Dulcimer, set of parlor bagpipes, a Saw Ooo(Thai two stringed fiddle),a set of spoons and a Khaen(Thai red harmonica).

I suppose this might be a time for a yard sale, but I think I'll keep on accumulating for a while.

    Dave

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: mandomad
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:44 PM

1 Fender strat
1 semi- acoustic guitar
2 Electric basses
8 Mandolins
5 Acoustic guitars(3 Spanish...2 Folk Jumbos)
1 octave mandola
1 tenor mandola
1 5 string banjo
1 tenor banjo
2 Bouzoukis
1 Balalaika
1 Appalachian dulcimer
1 accordian
1 concertina
1 violin
1 electric Keyboard
17/20 harmonicas(can't put me hands on all of them just now, but I know they're about).
8 Penny whistles
4 recorders(different types)
severeal ethnic whistles
1 ocarina
5 Autoharps (Jingle is as bad as me for collecting instruments!)
1 bhodran
1 jews harp
several kazoos, tambourines, shaky eggs, maracas.
I think that may be it.
No, 1 washboard.
1 pen top
And, what really upsets me, I gonna have to let loads of these go when I finally move to our little pad in Whitby...there just isn't the room!!!
   
               mandomad

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Azizi
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:47 PM

8 djembe drums {traditional African drums]and
numerous other traditional African drums big and small,a number of balafons {wooden xylophones with gourd resonators],
several sekeres [gourd percussive, shaking instrument with beads strung around the outside; guord rattles, finger pianos, koras [banjo-like instuments]; washboard like instrument from Kenya with beads inside that you shake {and a couple of more such instruments that I don't know the name of]
& agogos [cow bells], and a tamborine from Egypt

and
numerous maracas
[all these used for interactive children's presentations; the only ones that I half-way know how to play are the rattles/maracas]

Oh yes, I also have an acoustic guitar in my bedroom closet that once upon a time I thought I would learn how to play.

I never did...


Azizi

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:55 PM

The ones I play: a Bart Reiter "Regent" 5 string banjo, a Saga banjeurine, a Gibson tenor guitar, a Cort 6 string guitar, a Regal dobro, many harmonicas, an Oscar Schmidt autoharp, a Goldtone Dojo, which is a resophonic guitar body with a 5 string banjo neck.

The ones I sometimes play - a hammered dulcimer, two accordians, many recorders, tin whistles, ocarinas.

the ones I never play: a busted Stella tenor guitar, a no-name tenor banjo, a no-name 5 string from the late 1800's that I'll get a new neck for someday, a Majestic tenor banjo that was converted to a 5 string before I bought it and used to be my main instrument but now suffers from extreme old age, a Hohner concertina that has a busted reed, a toy Cajun-style accordian that I bought at Cracker Barrel,
a Lynn McSpadden dulcimer that has a seriously bowed fingerboard that I keep meaning to send back to Lynn for repairs, a bowl-backed mandolin, a banjo-uke, a regular uke, a set of bagpipes made in Pakistan that I can't play without getting dizzy - free to a good home if anyone wants them, they're parlor pipes. PM me if you're interested.

Probably other stuff that I can't think of off hand.

Oh, yeah, a thumb piano and a set of pan pipes.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: greg stephens
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:55 PM

Laura: get rid of the shaky eggs. Sometimes it's hard to let go, but you know it makes sense.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 06:59 PM

and in addition to the above, a fife and two bamboo flutes, a nose flute, and a duck call that I use with my band as an occasional novelty. And a tongue drum. And a psaltery and a zitheresque instrument that I have no name for.

I really have to stop myself.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Azizi
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 07:01 PM

Hey great, RangerSteve! You have a finger piano!!
I'm sure you play it better than me...

Oh yeah-I have some pan pipes too
and some wooden flutes
and some flutaphones or whatever you call those plastic instruments that are used in school to teach music to kids

and I have an old upright piano that's very much out of tune
{how could I forget that?}

plus I collect brass bells, but I don't really think of them as instruments...

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Peace
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 07:04 PM

I have air in the toilet pipes and one of the pipes plays a low B note.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Once Famous
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:03 PM

1971 Martin D-18
1969 Gibson J-45
1962 Gibson LG-3
1964 Gibson Lg-0
1963 Harmony Sovereign H1260
1977 Jida banjo Gibson RB-250 copy
1978 Fender Precision bass
1998 China mada upright bass
?    Oscar Schmidt autoharp
1964 Kay uke
1978 Peavy TNY bass amp
1965 Gibson Skylark amp

Maybe some other stuff, I don't know.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:06 PM

Mandomad - EIGHT of the little sods ?? thats frightening !!
I only have :-
2 x Jumbo Guitar
1 x Semi-acoustic guitar
1 x Bass guitar
1 x Resonator 5 string banjo
1 x Open back 5 string banjo
2 x Mandolin
1 x Short Scale tenor banjo
1 x Banjola
8 x Chieften Whistles
14 x Tony Dixon Whistles
6 x Shaw Whistles
8 x Generation whistles
1 x Clarinet
2 x Chromatic harmonicas
3 x Mouth Organs
1 x Balalaika
1 x Auto Harp
2 x PA sets
and lots of microphones and stands !!
And I still call it a HOUSE not a shop !!

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:10 PM

6- and 12-string Seagulls (my guitars)
6-string Ibanez (Sheryl's guitar)
Small ceramic doumbek
Flute (not played for a very long time...)
And the usual assorted shaker eggs and kazoos

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:31 PM

2 Guild 6 strings
1 Martin 12 String (D28)
1 Takemine 6 string(lawsuit)
1Fender Strat
1Roland Digital piano
1 Custom Cox Mandola
1 Mandolin
1 Dejembe drum
1 Doumbek
1 bodhran
2 Native Hand drums

Many Percusion instraments that I don't know the name of
And soon a Custom Hand made Belanger Irish Bouzouki

Raptor

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:36 PM

I may be paranoid but I'm hesitant to put that info on the internet.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Brakn
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:42 PM

Of interest?

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:43 PM

Why Kendall?

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Mooh
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 09:00 PM

Fender Telecaster electric guitar
OLP/Ernie Ball 5 string bass
Home made 4 string bass, soon to be converted to fretless.
Beneteau 6 string guitar
Beneteau 12 string guitar
Beneteau baritone guitar
House 6 string guitar
House bouzouki, guitar shaped.
Harmony archtop guitar
Harmony Sovereign guitar
Moon mandolin
Washburn mandolin
Wolff Brothers violin
Double bass, don't know what kind
Fife
Kazoos (2)
Pennywhistles (6 or so)
Recorder
Autoharp, solid wood and great sound.
Yamaha keyboard
Melodica
Harmonicas (3)
Djembe
Various shakers and a tamborine
Laney guitar amp
Yorkville bass amps (2)
Yorkville pa

Sold a Strat, 2 djembes, one bodhran, OLP electric guitar, recently...maybe it's time to restock!

So many instruments, so little time!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 09:59 PM

Here we go:-

1 Fender Strat 1989
1 Fender Telecaster - Danny Gatton model
1 Fender Telecaster - James Burton model
1 PRS Standard mahogany 1987
1 Rickenbacker 360/12 1967
1 Rickenbacker 620/12
1 Martin HD-28 1976
1 Martin Shenandoah Acoustic/electric
1 Fylde Falstaff 1979
2 Flatiron Mandolins
1 Custom 5 string electric mandolin w/ 2nd string bender
1 Fiddle
1 Fender Vibro King amp
1 Fender Deluxe amp early 70's
1 Mesa Boogie Mark III amp
1 Nosdravian Nose Flute

and that is before I go into the studio.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: number 6
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 10:21 PM

we have:

1 Seagull S6 ....   currently loaned out
1 Taylor 310
1 Blueridge BR60
1 gibson 335 .... currently out, to be sold
3 hohner harmonicas D, C, G
2 penny whistles
1 Djembe drum .... missus 6
1 bodhran    .... missus 6
1 set of bongos ... missus 6

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: number 6
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 10:22 PM

oh yeah, I forgot

1 modified Johnson resno guitar.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Pauline L
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 10:27 PM

I don't have many, just a few fiddles and bows, a mandolin, an Appalachian dulcimer, an egg, a thumb piano, maybe a recorder (if I can find it). When I get a job and some spending money, maybe I'll buy a few more.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 11:37 PM

22" Belgarth bodhran
18" Belgarth tuneable bodhran
18" Kress tuneable bodhran
16" Paddy Bergin tuneable bodhran

3 Shaw whistles C, D and Low D
2 Dixon whisltes A and Low D
Couple of generation whistles

Two sets of bones
One set French Canadian bones

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Padre
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 12:16 AM

1960's Martin 00-18
1960's Martin 000-18
2001 Martin D-15S
1930's No name open back 5-string banjo
2000(?) Banjo-guitar (open back/slotted head)
Lap dulcimer made in WV 1950's
10 harmonicas in assorted keys
4 kazoos in the same key
1 nose flute in some key or other
2 tin whistles (D & C)
1 really cheap fiddle
a bongo drum - somewhere

Padre

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 12:23 AM

solid body electric guitars (3)
acoustic electric guitar (1)
acoustic guitars (5)
mandolin (1)
Irish bouzouki (1)
chromatic harmonica (1)
harmonicas (2)
piano (1)
violins (2)
unassembled dulcimer (1) (its only been 10 years, but I'm patient)
guitars disassembled or injured (3)
pitch pipe (1)
tuning fork (1)

Of these, the only one considered mastered is the tuning fork.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: jonm
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 03:07 AM

Acoustic guitars, 2
Acoustic bass
Mandolins, 2
Piano accordions, 3
Concertina
Keyboards, 2
Assorted eggs, tambourines, whistles in various keys....

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Teresa
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 04:17 AM

2 modest guitars, a 6- and a 12-string
1 mountain dulcimer
1 strudhi box (sp? from Indiaa ... bellows instrument for droning accompaniment)
a set of pan pipes
some flutes ... two bamboo Irish-type transverse ones in G and D, a small Indoneasian one
a D whistle
a jaw's/Jew/mouth harp
a cheap harmonica/mouth organ
a shaky egg
a double-headed East Indian drum, which I can't figure out how to tune, if indeed it is tunable

and I'd love to collect more! I love hearing and playing music, though I'm not fantastic at playing. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 05:28 AM

And given that people who collect instruments like this, also are usually into books too, not to mention the collections of CDs, tapes, vinyl....how do we all actually fit furniture and people into our houses??

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Davetnova
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 05:41 AM

4 acoustic guitars
2 electric guitars
6 mandolins
1 banjo mandolin
1 waldzither
2 bodhrans
2 djembes
1 drum?
2 pennywhistles
1 shaky egg
mandolins are natural herd animals.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Davetnova
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 05:45 AM

Oh and the mandola in the bedroom, the fiddle in the cupboard and several amplifiers, the d/g melodeon that has decided it is a hermit and the travel guitar that I'm getting today.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Lanfranc
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 06:03 AM

11 Guitars:
Martin D18
Martin SPD16
Martin 000C-16GTE
Martin DM12
Zephyr ZA60 (6-string Zemaitis copy)
Washburn WG40S
Washburn J200 copy
Yairi Classical
Outbound Travel
Tanglewood Planet Electric
Westone Rainbow 1 Electric

2 Banjos:
Washburn 5-string Banjo
Clifford Essex Mandolin Banjo

2 Mandolins:
Oscar Schmidt Model A Mandolin
Ozark Electro-Acoustic Mandolin

5 Misc. strings:
Chris Harvey Bowed Psaltery
George Bowden Appalachian Dulcimer
Turkish Oud
Turkish Saz
Greek Baglama (baby bouzouki)

9 Woodwind:
Alto Saxophone
Fifes
Hopf Orchestral Descant Recorder
Mollenhauer Descant Recorder
Yamaha Alto Baroque Recorder
Didgeridoo
Pan Pipes
Qena

Anglo Concertina

Keyboards:
1918 Steinmayer Upright Grand Piano
Technics AX-7 Keyboard
African Finger Piano

No room left for further acquisitions! She who must be obeyed says its got to be "one in, one or more out" from hereon in!

Alan

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: pavane
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 06:45 AM

OK then

Hanging on the wall:
1 rebab (Arabic one-string fiddle)
1 washboard
Tabor

Elsewhere:
In use:
D/G melodeon
C/F (Club) melodeon
30 key anglo concertina C/G
Bodhran
Various harmonicas
Yamaha Acoustic guitar (steel-strung)
Acoustic guitar (Nylon strung)
Tabor pipe (3 hole whistle)

Not in use:
2 Yamaha keyboards
Jews harps
Fiddle
Flute
Autoharp
Recorders
Tin Whistles


Oh yes, musn't forget the Casio VL-Tone - antique?
Used to use it for recording and playing back song parts, to learn.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: kendall
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:32 AM

Why? because some hacker would have a list of the stuff he thinks worth stealing.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:37 AM

Mooh 3 Benatau's Holy Shit thats nice!

Raptor

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 09:25 AM

1 Deering Sierra 5 string banjo
1 Korean 5 string banjo
1 Yamaha guitar
1 Charango (bought in Bolivia)
1 Sarangi ( bought in Nepal)
1 John Grey ukulele banjo
1 cheap ukulele
1 Rumanian flatback mandolin
3 blues harps
3 penny whistles
2 sets of panpipes (bought in Bolivia)
2 Jaws harps
1 Ocarina
1 recorder
1 swannee whistle
2 or 3 kazoos
1 stone jug
a couple of Indian flutes
1 Asian bronze bowl you get one note out of for meditation- I'm still learning on that one
Ray

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 09:49 AM

Forgot the uke. It's a cheap piece of patched together crap, but it can be fun. Wish I had a good one. Should just build one.

Raptor...The trick is to find a great builder before the prices go through the roof, or beyond the buyer's budget. In my case I found Marc Beneteau when he was less known, but still very experienced in the craft, but I can't afford him today. I haven't had a moment's regret. Same with Josh House (www.house-guitars.com). He's refining his art and getting better all the time, so I bought while I could.

Every year I tell myself I'm gonna spring for a Peter Cox instrument...maybe this year.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 10:34 AM

Unbelievable!! - and I thought I was an instrument squirrel - my conscience has been cleansed reading through this lot. It's my birthday tomorrow and I can buy another instrument now, with ammunition ready to fire at my wife when she threatens to throw the lot onto the front lawn.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: John Hardly
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 10:40 AM

'69 YA AHA FG-140
'61 Gibson LG2
'02 Martin HD-28
'92 Flatiron A5 (Bruce Weber)
7 harmonicas
wooden "bones"
paper, combs, palms, various jugs (some antique, some I made)

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: jonm
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 11:21 AM

Books, Lynne?

When I moved house last, there were 3.5 tons of books, according to the removal men. At least one full height whole-wall bookcase in every room, including the hall, stairs landing and half landing (but not kitchen or bathroom!).

Two years on, in a bigger house, there is at least one full-wall bookcase in every room (two more rooms, and bigger rooms overall, plus two bookcases on the stairs half landing) and many of them have books two-deep because I've run out of space.

My better half and I counted up last night - we each have about 25 books which we have not read!

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST,Uncle DaveO
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 11:44 AM

I'm not in the league with most of the posters here, but here's our list:

6 foot Steinway grand piano (My Beautiful Wife's pride and joy!)
Yamaha electronic keyboard
Ramsey Special 5-string banjo
Kent 5-string banjo
A no-name baritone uke
Montana M-16-4 classical guitar
Lee Oskar "C" harmonica
    (which I've more or less given up trying to learn to play.)
An English guitar (cittern) Note: That's not "a Spanish-type guitar made in England", but a pear-shaped, flat-front-and-back six-nylon-string "English guitar", tuned EADGBE). I bought this as a "travel guitar".

Wow! That's several more than I'd thought of off the top of my head!

Of the above, only the piano, the Ramsey banjo, and the classical guitar get regular use.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 11:57 AM

A paper and comb. That's all I can afford.

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 11:57 AM

Baby grand (Yamaha)
Clavinova digital piano
A clarinet
A sax
A pennywhistle
Various harmonicas
An old Martin (I'm not a guitar player, but aspire to become one someday. It just hurts my fingers every time I try, so I end up avoiding it.)

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 12:08 PM

http://www.maestronet.com/stolen/index.cfm

Subject: RE: What instruments do you have?
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 12:23 PM

One Heintzman "cabinet grand" piano, originally property of my grandparents, built about 1900

One Giannini (sp?) nylon-strung craviola guitar, built about 1975

One Peter Cox steel-strung small-body fiddle-shaped guitar, built about 2002

One Kentucky KM-260 mandolin, acquired at Christmas

Two bodhrans, one on the wall because it needs a new goat, the other a nice oak-framed item that my husband should play more

Two recorders, one soprano (1964) and one alto (1968)

One digeridoo, a gift to my non-plussed husband from my brother

Various bones, spoons and other smacky things