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I play guitar...very badly but my 'Wish You Were Here' is almost passable now...in all it's 6 (open) chord glory !!
Nice to know I can kill a thread in ANY forum I go to !smile
Quote by thedukereid
does anyone on here play any musical instruments?
i play bass guitar

Cool! I've been a bass player (fretless, please) for the past 20+ years, but my first and foremost instrument has always been the synthesizer ( for details).
~Randy! surprised
Wow, checked out that link and you got a serious collection of toys!!!! I'm so jealous. Also noticed the african grey parrot on the kit list, they are soooo cool when they improvise along with people playing music (A friend's next door neighbour used to have one that would come up with with great melodies for our songs)
Michael
Michael~
The African Grey parrot's name was "Tacuma" - named after bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma - and provided inspiration for countless melodies. In fact, she single-handedly (or -clawedly) composed the entire lead section of the CTgoWest track on . At one point, I'd written a program to invert the spectrum of whatever she whistled and delay it by a few seconds so she could sing couterpoint to herself. Because of this, she became the only non-human composer to be profiled in Symbolic Sound's Eighth Nerve journal of electronic music!
Here's a pic of the two of us in my home studio:

Sadly, I had to give her up when I moved to the UK a few years ago, along with the vast majority of my studio toys. I've thus scaled down to a VWE PowerMac upon which I write most of my own music and signal processing software. I'm currently working on an updated version of the biosensor-driven MindSong
system mentioned on the CT site, as well as a number of other bioacoustic and sound therapy applications. Still, I'd love to get back to making my own music once again someday...
~Randy! :o
Reese! Look at you, ya dude! How cool is that?!
Of course, I play the organ wink No, seriously! Nowt special - mostly hymns strangely ... Silent Night is a piece of pish ... used to drive me mother mad when I was little - she had to listen to it all year round.
Total admiration for anyone who can play an instrument well.
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I play a sorta shite rusty guitar - it used to be blues now it just makes me blue!!

Me too. Played in bands in my youth, now they are wall decoration that only serve to frustrate when, occasionally, (when everyone's out), I have a burst of musicality.