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posted July 05, 2004 12:34 AM         

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I'm wondering how many Knowflakes here play musical instruments.

I play guitar. I bought an acoustic a few years ago - got a book and taught myself to play. I don't have the guitar anymore, but I plan to get a new one eventually.

Who else here plays something? Just curious.
.........maybe we could start a band! LOL

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"Music is an outburst of the soul." -Frederick Deluis

"Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." - Plato

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. -Albert Einstein

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posted July 05, 2004 02:24 AM         

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I play guitar a little (my sons are really the musicians), also bass and piano...

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posted July 05, 2004 04:28 AM         

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Cooooooooooooollllll,

I always wanted to learn how to play the piano! I just read your post in Global Unity. You are a cool woman!

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posted July 05, 2004 05:57 AM         

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I think you're cool too, 26taurus....

Luv,
Rainbow

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posted July 05, 2004 11:08 AM         

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I play clarinet,piano,drums,bells,the flute and a little guitar.On rare occasion I bust out the tamborine!Blessings.....maven

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posted July 05, 2004 12:12 PM         

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i play piano and percussion (drums and all)! and maven-- i LOVE tabourine too so much fun

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posted July 05, 2004 05:40 PM         

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Play flute and a little guitar. I used to play the piano.

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posted July 05, 2004 05:56 PM         

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I play a little bit of keyboard

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posted July 05, 2004 08:27 PM         

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Skin flute....Solo!
HA HA!

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posted July 05, 2004 08:58 PM         

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Hahahaha...is that much different from the pan flute? And yes...tambourines rock! Blessings....maven

P.S....so do those cool little finger cymbals!

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posted July 05, 2004 09:16 PM         

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Je joue le piano

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posted July 05, 2004 09:44 PM         

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ahh and the cowbell.. another personal favorite

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posted July 06, 2004 12:15 AM         

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I used to play bass and guitar, as well as a little bit of keyboard (roommate's MiniMOOG), but haven't played anything in a while. Used to write a bunch of stuff, too. Maybe I'll get back into it.

This quote by Samuel Butler is just WRONG: "Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."

Serial music can be very effective. Composers like Schoenberg and Jarzombek have done some really wicked stuff, you know. Probably because they were never tied down by rule, ear, feeling or instinct.

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posted July 06, 2004 02:08 AM         

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I play drums - primarily a kit but I've done some percussion stuff as well with school and college bands. I can play a little guitar and bass, and I do a lot of remixing on my beloved PC.

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posted July 06, 2004 02:11 AM         

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hi bigfoot,
The quote says, "not by rule". Life, like music should be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct.......NOT by rule.

Music IS composed by ear,feeling and insinct - among other things.

When rules are set - limits are set. And there are no limits to music. Music is love, and you cannot set boundries on love.

Maybe you just read it wrong.
That's so cool that you play AND write.

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posted July 06, 2004 02:21 AM         

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Maven, twinketoes, silverbells, Yang, Nephthys, and Isis!!! WoW!

And Philbird! You are a FLUTE LOOP!
i u!

How very coool everyone! So what should we name the band?

.....or orchestra! I should say.

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posted July 06, 2004 02:22 AM         

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I used to play the sax. I now own an organ and will try ro learn in the future. I also have an acoustic guitar and will get a classical one soon, though I don't know if I can play it well (B's sooo hard). Otherwise, I'm looking forward to buying a sax again (last one was stolen), then clarinet, then fulte. Last, maybe a trympet. I'm thinking my 30s will be an awesome decade for learning music, until then there's too much other stuff to do...

Dean.

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posted July 06, 2004 02:28 AM         

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Wow!!
ROCK ON!!!! sesame - Dean!

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posted July 06, 2004 02:39 AM         

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Hi 26taurus. I read it correctly, and have studied music enough to know that limits aren't a bad thing at all. Composing with limits is a discipline. See: 12 Tone Composition and Serialism. And when it comes down to it, composing by ear, feeling, and instinct can be limiting as well. In my opinion, it takes ear, feeling, instinct, as well as rule to make a good composition. Had Samuel Butler stayed alive long enough to study some of Schoenberg's Pantonal music, he probably would have changed his view.

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posted July 06, 2004 03:05 AM         

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Hey Bigfoot,
I see what youre saying. I just think when you set limits on something - anything - that is just stunting its growth. Yes, you can work WITHIN limits, become disciplined, and produce great things within the frame work. But I think it is better to grow, change, and discover new ways. Especially in the vast realm of music. "Don't live life by the rules." Maybe that's just the strong Aquarian influences in me!
Great thoughts!

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posted July 06, 2004 09:35 AM         

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Hey 26
We should call the band/orchestra "Mr. Freud's Oedipus"

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posted July 06, 2004 05:08 PM         

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I play keyboard, used to play a little guitar, drums, violin, viola, etc. etc. Now just have fun writing and recording folk-/Kate Bush-inspired songs.

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posted July 06, 2004 05:12 PM         

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The band should be called: Silverbells Inc. .

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posted July 07, 2004 03:42 AM         

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26taurus-
You've got to have rules in music. For example: You've just written something that just happens to be in C Major. You play it for your keyboard player. He likes it. Your drummer notes that it's in 4/4. They learn it. When it comes time to rehearse, your drummer and keyboard player both turn out to be Discordians and begin playing in 7/8 time against your 4/4, and the keyboard player plays in C# Major instead of C Major. The result wouldn't be what you expected. What do you do?

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