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Who plays what?

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No ulterior motives for asking, just innocent curiosity.

What instrument(s) do you play?

I'm basically a guitarist but have performed on blues harp, keyboards, bass, and occasional vocals...which is a bit like an occasional table, and almost as musical.
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My voice, I sang in choirs, amateur opera and in an amateur folk group, but not for a long time, wish I still did some. I can (could) sight read music for voice. I am (was) a baritone, but at a pinch I could do bass parts.

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Sight reading is beyond me, although I can read music slowly and well enough to transpose arrangements. I could never perform opera, except perhaps some extreme form of Opera Buffa. :lol: I did help run, and play at, a local folk club back in the 70s though.
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Our little folk group was called the freedom sons :roll: we were together from about 1965 to 1967. The only claim to fame was the other singer was Bernie Grant who became the first black MP.

The only opera lead I ever took was Kecal in The Bartered Bride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bartered_Bride I still remember lots of it and I was only 16 at the time - O come here neighours, O come her neighbours, O come here worthy villagers, etc. Now that was a Bass part, I could handle most of it, I only had to pop up the scale a couple of times, though I burst a blood vessel in my cheek at the dress rehearsal, which added to the ruddy complexion for the performances :oops:

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I was a folk soloist, which means there was nobody daft enough to want to appear on stage with me. I "did" everyone from Jake Thackray to Gordon Giltrap via Pete Seeger.
I'm almost impressed with myself in that I saw "Bartered Bride" and instantly thought "Smetana". :lol:
I suppose came to "appreciate" classical music in general fairly late in life...mostly courtesy of my wife. Unfortunately for her I did bring with me a love of Mahler and Wagner. To this day I will argue that the final movement of Mahler's 8th is the greatest piece of music ever written. Strangely enough I have found several people who disagree. Ah well, there's no accounting for taste. :violin:
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I played the drums for 20 years or so, I was in a few bands. what we wrote was crap so we never performed it live. We did nothing but covers, from Pink Floyd, Dire Staits to Sting.
I probably haven't played in 10 years or so.

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I can fiddle. :lol:

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Piano, level mid-amateur. I can play some easy Mozart sonatas, Bach two-way inventions, and recently I've almost finished text-learning my favourite Chopin's Nocturne no. 14
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Have played Clarinet professionally for 29 years now.
Piano: sort-of (did Grade 8 many years ago, when still at school)
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You forgot saxamaphone as Homer calls it.

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