In article <cflqkj$2lgb$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Harold Braithwaite says...
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>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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>I take my D frustrations out on poor, unsuspecting, guitars and keyboards ...
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Right now, I'm primarily a singer (I'm playing Judas in a production of Godspell which opens next weekend) and I can make sounds that are not completely painful and only make one or two babies start crying on a myriad of instruments (Guitar, Piano, Violin, Trumpet, French Horn, Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Drums, etc... for a few examples)

-Deja

Harold Braithwaite wrote:
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> How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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> I take my D frustrations out on poor, unsuspecting, guitars and keyboards ...

I'm a mediocre guitar player and a bad singer.
It's enough to get rid of my frustrations,
but not enough to make others enjoy listening.

-- 
Helmut Leitner    leitner@hls.via.at
Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com

Speaking of the DC area, I'm start at the University of Maryland in a few weeks... how's the D user group in that area?

(and yes, I've played piano, violin, guitar, and made feeble attempts at singing at various times in the past)

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:56:40 +0000, pragma wrote:

> In article <cflqkj$2lgb$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Harold Braithwaite says...
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>>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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>>I take my D frustrations out on poor, unsuspecting, guitars and keyboards
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> That's scary.  I play guitar and keyboards too.  Even toured with a local band around here (Washington, DC) for a while last year.  Although, I've been writing so much code lately, the strings have been getting a bit rusty. :(
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> - Pragma

Harold Braithwaite wrote:
> How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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> I take my D frustrations out on poor, unsuspecting, guitars and keyboards
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I'm a neophyte guitarist with a hopeless wistfulness for classical guitar playing skill.

Also some Russian friends gave me a taste of the spectacular Russian guitar style that's almost been lost to the known world... absolutely beautiful and melodious.  They play some incredible Russian hymns with the method. I wish I could learn that style too.... alas I might only dream on.

>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?

I play Trumpet and Guitar.

>>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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>Oh yes!
>But I don't play an instrument, I compose.

You compose without any instruments? Interesting. How do you do that?

>Singing, saxophon, dancing - what do you want? Funny thing though: Even though I am a completely rational thinker when it comes to physics, math and computers, I never got along well with music theory. I enjoy it and feel when it is right or wrong, but I have never really understood the explanations why it should be that way...

Well it can help you a lot, especially if you wnat to work with other people.

In article <cfna8b$d0g$1@digitaldaemon.com>, John Reimer says...
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>I'm a neophyte guitarist with a hopeless wistfulness for classical guitar playing skill.
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Well that sounds terribly familiar :) Unfortunately I haven't found much time to practice lately. Always having a million things I want to do (or am supposed to do), the things that take much time and effort tend to get down-prioritized...

Nick

Harold Braithwaite schrieb:
> How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?

Hummm... I wouldn't dare to call myself a musician. I cannot play any instrument well (although i own some), and i sing awfully. However, i have some knowledge in harmony, so i might dare to compose something someday, if i have time. Time, that's what it has failed upon, because it takes unbelievable amounts of time just to learn to play. What i have wonderfully succeded in, is sampling, and (very naturally sounding) MIDI taping.

I better like to call myself a learning graphic artist - that takes up much less time, and is much more wanted in the demoscene. Although this might also fail on the lack of time.

-eye

In article <cfnbdf$dg5$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Matthias Becker says...
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>>>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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>>Oh yes!
>>But I don't play an instrument, I compose.
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>You compose without any instruments? Interesting. How do you do that?

In exactly the same way that one can write a speech without any microphones. There are plenty of high quality music notation authoring packages out there, and you can feed the output through MIDI to a keyboard or sound module to hear the result. I use standard music notation for most instruments, but I usually switch to some other view for entering the drums, if drums are required. If you're writing a composition for a non-trivial number of instruments then being able to play one of them probably wouldn't help you anyway, because you really do need to be able to hear all of those instruments at once. (Anyway, you hear them in your head long before you write them down). It's also great fun working with a band. I'm not in an active band right now, but I have been in the past, and I wrote songs and did a bit of vocals. My fellow musicians were able to play stuff but couldn't write it down, so we made a good team.

Although I wouldn't be able to play live on my own, my equipment is my "instrument", and it's every bit as valid as any other. Plus, there is something incredibly powerful about being able to write and record an entire song, or even an entire album, without having to rely on anyone else. Before I got married or engaged, I wrote and recorded a symphony for my now husband. Okay, so it may not have been performed by a real orchestra, but sound modules are pretty good these days (and I did hire a professional soprano for the aria bit). His reaction upon receiving and hearing this gift is something I shall treasure forever.

Jill