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Eetu Pellonpaa View Drop Down

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Posted: October 05 2006 at 05:14

Bass guitar + little keyboards.

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Posted: October 05 2006 at 18:42

I want to learn flute and keyboards, as well.

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 05:59

I play the Guitar and Octave Mandola, I also own a Theremin which I use to make freaky noises. Big smile

Might as well list my various bits of gear:

Guitars: Steinberger Spirit GU Deluxe
Epiphone G400
Amps: Fender Princeton 65DSP
WEM ER40 head with 1 x 12" H/H PA cabinet
Pedals: none as they've all broken (I'm never going to buy anything by Boss again)

Theremin: Single antenna (pitch)

Mandola: got no idea who made it Embarrassed

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 06:18

Sasquamo wrote:

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Guitar, Piano/Keyboards and Electric Organ (those freaked out things with two manuals and bass pedals).

People that can play the organ really impress me. Now, playing a keyboard with an electric organ sound is one thing, but playing the real Hammond organ with two sets of keys and foot pedals--that's very impressive. Real Hammond Organs cost a whole lot of money, though...

Real Hammond organs are really expensive - but Technics made affordable ones, and I had one of those. BTW: It's not that complicated ... you're playing three different "sequences" simultaneously, but usually the bass and left hand are arranged so that they're not "interfering", and decoupling the right hand from the left hand is something that "normal" keyboard/piano players also learn.

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 12:18

Once a member of the Dutch Hammond organ society invited me to his store where kept his collection: 2 B3's, a C3, a L100 and M100 and two Leslie boxes, incredible! Only pushing the start button is already a sensation, it reminded me of Pictures At An Exhibition by ELP. I was allowed to play a little bit on it (with my 3 chord knowledge

), what a powerful and distinctive sound and what a fun to switch the drawbars, an unforgettable experience. Once I hope to buy a Vintage Sound Module with great Hammond sounds

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 12:54

Percussion (including Drum Kit, Xylophone and Crotales along with other assorted bits and pieces), Flute, Oboe, Recorder and a little Piano and Guitar.

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 15:46

Instruments I religiously play:

Piano/all sorts of Keybaord related instruments

Guitar

Bass

Drums

Flute

Instruments I have played for a while and WILL eventually play again, but just dont have the money:

Violin

Pipe Organ!

Instruments I am dying to play:

Sitar

Various obscure instruments not very popular to common musicians

Steel Drums

Gong!

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Posted: October 09 2006 at 09:14

Electric guitar, some recorder and some keyboard...

I wanted to start playing a new instrument but I can't decide between violin, saxophone or transverse flute...

So which one shall I play? Confused

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Posted: October 09 2006 at 15:01

Hello all. I play electric guitar, 12-string and nylon string acoustics, bass (electric, acoustic, upright). Musical instruments are v. addictive. Big smile

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 06:57

Keys:

My current rig is:

Alesis Fusion 8HD (88 Note Hammer action mega-synth)

E-MU Proteus PK6 - With Vintage, Ensoniq and Orchestral expansion ROMs

and my lovely Korg Prophecy mono-synth.

I also have a Honer Pianet electric piano (which I've owned for nearly 30 years), An ailing 20 year old Yamaha Clavinova (which I can't bring myself to part with because it was my wife's first Christmas presie and cost her a LOT back when we were poor newlyweds!. ) and Casio VZ1 (The last real pro synth from Casio from the 80s), but the pianet is in permanent retirement and the VZ is is in semi retirement (It will be fully retired once I've sampled all my favorite patches into the Fusion)

I suppose I should mention the handful of virtual instruments I use too, the EMU Emulator X soft sampler, The amazing Garritan Personal Orchestra orchestral library, Slayer virtual guitar, and a great little freebie Hammond emulation called NuBi. (I have a whole bunch more VSTi instruments, but they don't really get much use!)

My big wish is for a real Hammond B or C3 if (a) I could afford one, and (b) had the room for it (Those things are huge). I may save may pennies for a Hammond XK3 which is the best Hammond emulation I've tried to date.

Oh here's some pics of the studio showing the toys:

Special note should be taken of the cunning liquid sound dispersion panel next to my wife's guitar on the far left LOL! (Never get thirsty recording in my studio!)

Edited by MarkOne - October 13 2006 at 07:02

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 07:06

All guitars and string-instruments, and the flute and mouthorgan, and I sing.

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Posted: October 19 2006 at 16:28

My bass guitar and i want to learn to play keyboards.

Edited by progismylife - October 21 2006 at 05:10

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Posted: October 19 2006 at 17:14

I'm a classically trained cellist, was grade 8 at one point, I've played Bass and Keyboards in bands over the years and also some guitar on studio recordings and for songwriting. I did a soundtrack for a film last year on which I played all the instruments. I make and repair stringed instruments for a living and I own eleven guitars, eight keyboard instruments and at the moment probably about eighty or so violins, violas and cellos. Oh, and one double bass!

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Posted: October 19 2006 at 17:18

I can play well: Guitar, drums

I can play somewhat: Bass

I can play just a bit: Piano

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Posted: October 20 2006 at 21:21

Bass

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

blindtoad

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Posted: October 20 2006 at 21:24

bass

quelqu'un pour un jam?

blindtoad = Poor english...

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Posted: October 24 2006 at 12:59

Guitar, bass, and enough keyboards to embarass myself. I play guitar semi-professionally in a new wave band (which would now be "old new wave") and write prog at home in my spare time...

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Posted: October 25 2006 at 12:40

Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano/synths, drums/percussion, trombone, voice

I guess I don't play my voice...

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Posted: October 26 2006 at 12:42

Sasquamo wrote:

...but playing the real Hammond organ with two sets of keys and foot pedals--that's very impressive. Real Hammond Organs cost a whole lot of money, though...

It's actually a bit like driving - all 4 limbs working at the same time; they're not too expensive actually - I've a 1971 L122 & Leslie 145 cabinet & together, they cost around £600 (mind you, if you go for a C3 or B3, that's where the expense really comes in)

Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

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Posted: October 26 2006 at 12:46

Organ (like tha Hammond, only it's not a hammond) with 2 rows and foot bass.

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