What Instrument Do You Wish You Could Play?

Guitar is fairly easy to learn.

Oboe and cello. Both very beautiful instruments.

cello, a violin, a viola, a harpsichord, a clavichord, a hurdy-gurdy, a virginal, a lute, a celesta, an ondes martenot, a theremin, all of the woodwinds, a gong, a consort of krumhorns, a personal gamelan orchestra, two jugongs, a giant basilica with a forty-billion rank organ, a personal carillon, and a property thoroughly seeded with earth drums.

Damn, I think you have the right idea. Just add some Indian classical instruments. Man, those are fun.

My voice.

Pin whistle

banjo-besides the piano i think it's the most beautiful

Any instrument really, but piano above all because of its usefulness.

hahaha, well yes actually I feel the same, although I would like to have a go at the oboe: It has such a beautiful, melancholy sound. Yes, know not everyone feels this way about it... :blush:

I wish I could learn how to play the harp without actually learning how to play. I'm too lazy and actually embarassed as well to leave a store carrying a harp, and also to practice. Why won't a harp just appear and I just know how to play.. people should just be born with the ability to play the harp like Andreas Vollenweider.

I know exactly what you mean. I wish I could play the cello and the guitar without actually having to play the cello and the guitar. I love the way the cello sounds all the time and one of my other favorite types of music is classical guitar. The problem with me is that I hate the way it feels to play the cello with it in between the legs. I also would not have the patience to develope the ability to "guess" where the notes are. On the cello you have to puch the string to produce the pitch. On the piano you push a key and if it is not in tune it is not your fault :P. The finger position for the guitar chords don't look really comfortable either. I just don't have the patience to stick with the guitar or the cello. However, I would love the ability to be able to play them minus the hours of pratice and the discomfort that is involved when playing the instruments. This is why I just stick to the piano. :)

P.S. - I love the oboe just the way you oboe lovers do. I just don't really have the affinity for an instrument that you have to blow into that some do.

Cello, piano, oboe.

Sitar, classically trained from the youngest possibly age, preferably.

At the moment i really want to learn organ, sounds so majestic and scary.

Maek

I'd looooove to take up the violin. It's such a great instrument :D Asides from being able to play microtones (which I find amazing, btw), which also implies true glissandi, it has a really amazing sound.

Although I would prefer the viola instead, because it has both the high and stressing sound of the violin, and some of the sonority of the cello, which makes it a really great instrument. I once tried to play on the violin of a friend of mine, and within the first few minutes, I managed to get the melody (monophonic) of mozart's "little night music" :D

Asides from that, I am a left-handed, something that has really helped me in the piano (my left hand is much better when it comes to arpeggios and quick movements), so I guess taking up the violin won't be such a PITA.

Problem is, I need a violin and a teacher. Oh, and some time too... :| I may take it up during my university studies, dunno. I'll see how it comes out :)

I'd love to be able to play the harp. It makes an absolutely awesome sound but it looks extremely complicated!:closedeyes:

I think i'll just try and improve my flute and piano playing for now.....

Mark, let me just say that I'm a flutist of 5 years, and if the flute hurts one's neck, then he (or she) is holding it wrong. The flute plays best when one is the most relaxed (except of course for the arms, which have to hold the flute up....)

As for what instruments I wish I could play- the organ, the violin, and the oboe, in that order.

banjo-besides the piano i think it's the most beautiful

Hey, I play banjo a bit, it's loads of fun :)

I'd looooove to take up the violin. It's such a great instrument :D Asides from being able to play microtones (which I find amazing, btw), which also implies true glissandi, it has a really amazing sound.

Although I would prefer the viola instead, because it has both the high and stressing sound of the violin, and some of the sonority of the cello, which makes it a really great instrument. I once tried to play on the violin of a friend of mine, and within the first few minutes, I managed to get the melody (monophonic) of mozart's "little night music" :shifty:

Asides from that, I am a left-handed, something that has really helped me in the piano (my left hand is much better when it comes to arpeggios and quick movements), so I guess taking up the violin won't be such a PITA.

Problem is, I need a violin and a teacher. Oh, and some time too... :| I may take it up during my university studies, dunno. I'll see how it comes out ;)

Violin is hard, but it's worth the effort.

The viola is harder...

It is exactly like a violin except for certain physical things... like the size making the same techniques more athletic (and then because of physics) and less projecting... You should pick it... I like it and it is more of a treasure cove of not that well known by well written pieces...

Plus violist make better composers... heh

I don't know about violists making better composers, though Dvorak was a violist. I will admit, it is rare to find a good violist.

Well, being at the FMEA conference this weekend.. and playing in the all-state orchestra... (firebird suite.. ye-ah)... I can say.. proportionally... there were just as many good violist as violinist.. and if you make a percent of good players compared to the sectoin... violas were most defiantly higher then violins... and maybe even the cellos..

Quit your bragging. This is a composing website, we should not start a violin/viola war.

But for the record, violas.... Just kidding.:)

Sorry, I was just trying to act like the usual first violin... Pompous, loud, arrogant, and bragging... duh... didn't you catch that? :D

Do you know you are so right? But, how many violists does it take to change a light bulb? Doesn't matter, they can't get that high anyway.:D :P :P

Lame joke, but I am purely joking, viola is a great instrument, I love it.

I wish I can play the Ehru. It's a Chinese instrument. I absolutely adore the heart-drenching sound of the instrument.

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Btw there are many more violist-composers than just Dvorak.

But I don't know any for who the violia was their main instrument.

Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven are just 3 examples of which I know.

i learnt piano without lessons, i can play chopins fantasie impromptu properly and numerous preludes, i would honestly recommend self teaching it works just as well, you wont nessecerily learn theory unless you want to, but it works all the same

and o umm, i would love to be able to play the violin well, it has the most heart renching noise of any instrument

I'd like to play the Sitar. Or the jaw harp. Killer jaw harp...