[Nick77]

Hey Ed, here is my instrument. 

[eclein]

Nice board there, you could have fun with that baby!!! Very nice...who's the old guy..oh thats you...

[no1maestro]

Came home from a wedding at 4 1/2 and picked out the melody on my grandmother's piano. Started piano the next year. Rock and roll band in high school along with band and orchestra. On to college as a music major as well as forming a folk trio. Worked my way through college by employment at the local music store. Did lots of gigs with a piano trio and various groups. Radio and TV work and commercials. A couple of commercial reordings that didn't do much. Became a band director and conducted bands and orchestras. Held post as music director at a local private club and played there for over 28 years. Now retired and have a chance to listen as much as I want and just love it. I have been lucky enough to do everything in music that I ever desired with Carnegie Hall being  the last item on my bucket list!

[Rocket]

Hi,

Wow this thread hasn't been updated for  a couple of years.  I replaced my Kanstul 1537 and bought a real Bach Stradivarius Lr43 lightweight trumpet with gold plate trim.  It totally blows the Kanstul away and I feel no inclination to upgrade anytime soon.  I'm still enjoying playing with Metro Big Band here in Perth.  I usually have 1- 2 gigs per month with this band which is just enough because I work full-time. 

http://www.metro-bigband.com/members.php

Cheers Rod

[tomsch]

I'm new here but also play in a gigging R&B band as a saxophone player. Started collage as a music major but also doubled in engineering. Now 30 years later I'm an engineering program manager as my day job but play pretty much every weekend in an R&B/funk band.

[FullRangeMan]

I have no talent to be a musician so I play drums some times.

[tomsch]

I'm new to the forum but have played saxophone all through high school and college. Now at 52 I still gig with local R&B bands in Nor Cal. My main band is Clean Slate and we are typically busy every weekend playing at casinos and corporate gigs.

[tweakyman]

WOW!…Great idea…this musician’s circle…I’ve been playing Saxophone since the beginning of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Studied with the late Moe Koffman…who figured out I wasn’t reading but playing back my required lesson
by memory…and that my memory wasn’t that terrific…turned out I was and am dyslexic in a big way…I had a choice to either quit or keep trying….It took forever but I ended up playing in chartless bands on stage all around Toronto and up until recently in Florida…mostly jazz and blues….It’s a blast…..Hopefully ..when this plague ends I will keep on jamming….Glad to meet you all

[Craig B]

I grew up playing cornet in grade school. Now I play acoustic guitar, 5-string banjo, piano and I'm teaching myself mandolin.

[Xavier54]

Hey, another guitarist here........... at one point I almost became a professional player, but like everywhere else in the world, I need to have my beans every month, rain or shine, so......

I have a YT channel where I upload covers plus some own tunes like this

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

Glad to see there are some sax players here, I am a Coltrane loving metalhead ! 

[HAL]

Latest guitar rig from the '70s.

[Xavier54]

Latest guitar rig from the '70s.

Is that a Jaydee ?? Iommi fan I see !

[JulieEdwards]

Hi,
I'm new here! Working on updating a speaker crossover in my Totem acoustic Rainmakers. (Trying to get rid of the itch to buy new speakers....Zu Dirty Weekends have my eye and I can't afford them right now...)
ANYWAY! I'm a musician, too! I play the Viola in the Utah Symphony. A little bit different than most folks in this thread. I've played in semi- and professional orchestras since college, which was a long time ago. I've played with the Utah Symphony since 2000.
So that's what I play, I listen to lots of different music, just no Top 40 country.
Play on, Musician's Circle!

[FullRangeMan]

Congratulations for your talent  I cant play anything, only silly audiophile but I always loved the Viola rich mid-range sound much more than the Violin, the Viola sound are much richer in harmonics than the prima dona Violin.

[HAL]

Is that a Jaydee ?? Iommi fan I see !

Yes, I asked JayDee to build an SG Special like Tony's '64 SG Special that is Monkey.  From about the '74 era with the John Birch style 6 pole pickups like CalJam '74.

The head is like the early Laney LA60BL/LBO and the Laney LA412LEAD100 is like Tony's studio cab.

Held an event at a local theater for other Iommi guitar fans with all the old gear.  A great day!

[dpatters]

I’m new to playing guitar. Wanted to try something new in retirement after 35 years in IT. I’ve been having weekly in person lessons for 10 months. Having fun with it. I have a Gibson SG Standard and a Martin  acoustic. Here’s my stuff.



Don P

[JulieEdwards]

Congratulations for your talent  I cant play anything, only silly audiophile but I always loved the Viola rich mid-range sound much more than the Violin, the Viola sound are much richer in harmonics than the prima dona Violin.

Not sure it's talent, just dang stubborn...
Your picture there is what's called a "cutout" viola, the style was "invented"by a Hungarian-Canadian maker named Otto Erdesz. It's meant to make the big instrument slightly easier to play. Some are quite nice!

[FullRangeMan]

Not sure it's talent, just dang stubborn...
Your picture there is what's called a "cutout" viola, the style was "invented"by a Hungarian-Canadian maker named Otto Erdesz. It's meant to make the big instrument slightly easier to play. Some are quite nice!

From what I understand as audiophile, it's an instrument to make easier reach the treble range for childrens.
http://www.ibkco.com/erdeszviola.html

[Will.S]

Just "stopping by"! Cool to see a little spot for musicians to chime in. I grew up playing piano and trumpet and migrated to acoustic/folk/rock and spent about 20 years touring after college. I mostly played steel/resonator guitar and either backed up songwriters or had my own band.