A Thread About Musicians

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Now, most of us here on NPF can play an instrument - Proph and Tahr have their guitars, Fen has his trombone, Bobbey has her Sax... Are there any other NPFites who play? What got you into playing the music you're playing? Do you do it for fun, or are you in a band, or what? Have you ever busked?

I play piano, at the request of me mum - she's huge on music )a college graduate voice teacher who's majored in classical music) and got my two older brothers and I playing piano when we were really young; and although I'm now able to play a bit of sheet music if I can study it for a bit, I love playing by ear the best. It just feels really fun to hear something you really like, then sit down and hammer it out. I'm not able to play anything big or grandiose, but I'd like to continue lessons.

I also play the violin - though my talent in that is very similar to my piano "talent." I took about a years worth of lessons and can now play it by ear - I know where to put my fingers, how to move my bow arm, how to hold the instrument properly. Also something I'd like to get back into. I first started because of Sesame Street. There was this little girl they had on playing a violin and I was like... five years old and I was thinking awesome. Wanted to play ever since.

Now, on the subject of me mum, she's really big into music - she's even one of the heads of a local theater company. They've been around for ages, but this year I've decided to audition - and I'm hoping I get into "The Little Shop Of Horrors." I like a few musicals, and I've always liked TLSoH, so hopefully my rendition of Old Man River was up to snuff.

I was in high school choir and quickly discovered how little people are actual basses. You can have low tenors and baritones, but I was pretty much the only real base when I was in the choir. So getting into a musical might be fun - it's been ages since I acted.