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View Poll Results: If you hadn't chosen to learn & play guitar, what other instrument would you select?
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Keyboards/Piano
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33.33% |
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Drums/Percussion
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19.05% |
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Bass
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11.90% |
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Other
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33.33% |
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It would have been the guitar or nothing
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October 20th, 2007
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Grandiose Member
Playing guitar for over 10 years.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Location: Australia
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If you didn't take up guitar, what other instrument would you have liked?
Yes, if you hadn't taken up guitar, is there another instrument you would have gone with?
For me, it would have to be drums?
I remember listening to "100,000 years" by KISS and drumming along to Peter Criss' drum solo with my mum's knitting needles, much to her dismay.
"Good Music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty" Thomas Beecham
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October 20th, 2007
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Grand Member
Playing guitar for what seems like forever.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Last Online: 7 Hours Ago 02:27 AM
Location: Land of Lincoln - Illinois
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Love them Ivory's
Nothin sweeter than the sound of music comin out of a 6 string box - EZ me Music / ASCAP
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October 20th, 2007
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Playing guitar for over a year.
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This is a tough one to answer. The other instruments I quite like are cello, clarinet and maybe sax but you couldn't play the sort of music I liked best on any of them.
Guitar was never an option when I was young. I didn't even see a real life guitar until I was 18 (in a shop window when I escaped from rural England) and no option to learn guitar at school. I could have possibly asked to learn piano at school but we didn't have any instruments or piano at home so I never did, and violin was just too excruciating in the hands of a beginner.
I was always in love with the guitar and the music that it made, but I didn't get a chance to buy my own until a few years ago. So my answer is Guitar or nothing.
One good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain - Bob Marley
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October 20th, 2007
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Grand Member
Playing guitar for over 5 years.
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Saxaphone or Piano would love to be able to play either .
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
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October 20th, 2007
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Grand Member
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When I was lil biddy boy
I use to play tambourne
in the Salvation Army band
On the corners every Christmas season
I still remember the good ol carols
My right hand still beats along
Umm so I am going to say Tambourine
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October 20th, 2007
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Full Member
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Last Online: 4 Days Ago 12:52 PM
Location: Phillip Island....Au
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Blues Harp.
The reason I play an instrument is listening to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee as a kid. I opted for guitar (as most sixteen year olds do). But I still love the harp.
YouTube - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Hootin' the Blues
I got blisters on my fingers........!
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October 20th, 2007
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Location: Australia
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The triangle. It's undemanding, and gives so much. It's also affordable.
I dreamt of the cello, but too $$$$.
I am thinking of trying drumming, and am currently trying singing (properly, with lessons).
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October 20th, 2007
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Grand Member
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I like playing the piano but I'm not that good, I think I would have taken proper singing lessons, I did sing in the Choir until I left school but I would have liked to take it to the next level, I like singing and think the Voice is a brilliant instrument.
You don't stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.
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October 20th, 2007
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I would really, really like a Hurdy-Gurdy but they are well expensive . 
Gary
live hand in hand and together we'll stand , on the threshold of a dream .
Everyone is born with a photographic memory,
but not everyone comes with film.
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October 20th, 2007
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I play sax already, but would probably be a lot better if I didn't play guitar.
I absolutley love blues/gospel/jazz piano - think Ray Charles. That stuff send me into raptures. I would love to be able to piano in that style, or the Hammond B3.
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October 20th, 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skinnybloke
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+1 on the Blues Harp...you can really wail and it fits in your pocket!
SlipSliding_______away
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October 20th, 2007
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A Musical Saw or Theramin might be cool, you can get some really weird sounds with them.  wi
You don't stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.
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October 20th, 2007
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I always thought it would be neat to be able to walk into some shot & beer joint that had an upright in the bar, sit down & play something like "One for My Baby".
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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October 20th, 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GotDeeBlues
I always thought it would be neat to be able to walk into some shot & beer joint that had an upright in the bar, sit down & play something like "One for My Baby".
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That would be cool, with the added bonus of free beer for playing hopefully 
You don't stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.
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October 20th, 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SlickCat
+1 on the Blues Harp...you can really wail and it fits in your pocket!
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+ 2 on the blues harp.
but I love country fiddle also.
chrissy
Chris
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