What instrument do you wish you could play?

I would pick piano.


I am a music addict, sure most of you are.

I have two vinyl tables to mix on, decent collection of records, but half of setup is in storage due to living space.

I wish i was better on the records more than anything.


Still my pick is piano.

 

I just want to bang a bass player

 

there's a difference between knowing where the notes are, and having a repertoire.
i can make the noises i want come out of several, but its been so long since i've practiced anything.
horns, reeds, keys. but i've never been anywhere near at a level to publicly perform.
wish i had a sakahachi. used to have a tenner recorder.
got a couple of keyboards, but no room to set them up to practice on.
played horns way back when i was in high school and grade school even.
learned a bunch of soft rock in the 70s and filk in the 80s,
but that's all ancient history, and i just have other stronger interests any more.

 

Harp. It just looks so elegant sitting there strumming a beautifully carved piece of wood. Yeah, a harp!

 

I want my voice to have the perfect pitch I hear in my head.

My voice would be the instrument I'd most want to play.
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I play piano...and it's great. no lie...but listening to it is also great.

 

I would love to master this work. Perhaps I should get Anna Fedorova to give me a few lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w&t=354s

 

Drums and electric guitar. So I can relive my life long desire to be a heavy metal star!

 

Santoor

 

Cello...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNm6YvTdFRg

 

i'd love to be good at any of them.

i was a passable self-taught pianist back in elementary school, but then i stopped and now i have no memory of how to do anything.

 

voice

i wish i could sing well

but i cant




in grade school i always chose the trombone...dont know if i was good or not because no one actually fails music class

 

Really cool.

I listened to the whole thing but only watched parts of it.

21:00 is awesome

22:10 is funny how many have their eyes closed as if in a trance.

 

Violin would be cool to know how to play.

 

The slow movement is my favorite part of the work and the transition into the third movement at 24:00 is awesome. Rachmaninoff suffered a terrible period of depression and thought that he would never write another note. The cloud suddenly lifted and this magnificent concerto was born. To me it somehow represents his torment. In 1947, the producers wanted him to compose a score for the film Dangerous Moonlight. He refused and Richard Adinsell was commissioned to write the music. The resultant score was widely considered to have been highly inspired by this work. Although shunned by many concert pianists on the grounds that it is film music, the central composition has now seen a revival since it was performed at the Proms a few years ago. The soloist was Valentina Lisitsa. and this is a film of her recording session for her album of film music after she 'cracked the ice' and showed that works such as this have a place on the concert platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdphjknR0HU

 

It looks simple, but with no frets and 3 sets of finger positions, along with having to use adjacent strings to bow a chord it is far from easy. I played 2nd violin in our college orchestra for a short while and when rehearsing at home, my late mother said that it reminded her of the day that she accidentally trod on the cat. LOL.

 

Not even chopsticks?



https://youtu.be/DtvNAQ8KOqI


Hotwater

 

Cant watch video, up loader not available in my country.

 

I can never quite work out why some videos are not available in certain parts of the world. The Warsaw concerto video is from You-Tube, the same site as the Rachmaninoff concerto. I have found Valentina Lisitsa's recording from the 2013 Prom's, but, despite the mushrooms hanging from the ceiling, the poor acoustics of the Albert hall somewhat detract from the music.Let me know if this version is available to you. Just a thought.! Would your country have any reason to want to block videos with "Warsaw" in the title, for political reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IelG5i0hwks

 

Oh hi

 

i remember the basic concept of it, but i guarantee i would get it wrong at least a few times if i tried without a tutorial.