Odd Instruments

[trolls' bane]

Does anyone have any strange instruments that they play? I can play the Digerydoo, I almost had luck at a Psaltry and an Indian flute, and I also recently recieved a wind wand.

[Anglorfin]

It would be helpful if you explained these instruments, trolls' bane. Now you got me all curious.

As for wierd instruments. A bunch of people in my high school made a bluegrass band and I played the jug.

[trolls' bane]

Well, the Digery is basically a long tube, and is! You have to "spit" into them a certain way through one end, and it makes a deep throated sound.
A Psaltry is a stringed intrument and is played with a bow. Never was good at mom's before, until last week. Anyway, back to the topic. It is shaped like an isosceles triangle.
I'll go see if I could get a picture off Google and post the link.

[trolls' bane]

Here's a few google search results. Some good links for a digeridoo, which I just learned to be the correct spelling:
http://images.google.com/images?q=di...=Google+Search

Here's a search I made for a Psaltry:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=Google+Search

[HOBBIT]

digeridoos are usually heard in almost all movies about australia

I have blown through one once - very similar to making a sound on a brass instrument.


I play the Euphonium - not that exotic, but almost no one has heard of it, even people that play instruments.

It looks like a mini-tuba, but is not a tuba.

It has a beautiful sonorous sound (hence the name Euphonium) and is usually a featured solo instrument in bands.

Unfortunately, Euphoniums are only in bands and not orchestras, except when used in a few select orchestral pieces such as Mars.

I have no had one person know what it is when I tell them what I play "you play a what?"

[trolls' bane]

I think I might have heard of it, but I can't place where I heard of it.

[plaidjedillama]

Originally posted by HOBBIT
I play the Euphonium - not that exotic, but almost no one has heard of it, even people that play instruments.

It looks like a mini-tuba, but is not a tuba.

It has a beautiful sonorous sound (hence the name Euphonium) and is usually a featured solo instrument in bands.

Unfortunately, Euphoniums are only in bands and not orchestras, except when used in a few select orchestral pieces such as Mars.

I have no had one person know what it is when I tell them what I play "you play a what?"

I have a friend who plays the euphonium. He's with the Salvation Army. This Christmas him and I were kettling together, so it was kind of intersting, a euphonium and a guitar playing together. People kept asking him about his euphonium, after they walked away he would just stand there and shake his head. He said it gets very tiring explaining the difference between a tuba and a euphonium, and sometimes you just have to give up and let people think whatever they want.

[Lalaith_Elf]

I have a digerydoo - very beautifully carved and decorated. I've tried to play it but I failed spectaculary. But my sister has a friend who is amazing at playing it, so she may be teaching me.

But apart from that I play the piano and violin, which are quite common instruments.

[Anglorfin]

Originally posted by HOBBIT
digeridoos are usually heard in almost all movies about australia

Yeah, tb, you could have just said that long thing from Australia and I would have gotten it right away.

[Nurvingiel]

So what is a psaltry and an Indian flute? I think the psaltry is a stringed instrument?

I play classical guitar, which isn't exotic or anything, but I am one of the few women who play. There seems to be about 80% guys and 20% gals playing. I have no idea why the distribution. My guitar is a bit different though, it's an older guitar so its smaller than your average classical guitar. I also play the right-handed way even though I'm left-handed.

[Mercutio]

Originally posted by HOBBIT
digeridoos are usually heard in almost all movies about australia

I have blown through one once - very similar to making a sound on a brass instrument.


I play the Euphonium - not that exotic, but almost no one has heard of it, even people that play instruments.

It looks like a mini-tuba, but is not a tuba.

It has a beautiful sonorous sound (hence the name Euphonium) and is usually a featured solo instrument in bands.

Unfortunately, Euphoniums are only in bands and not orchestras, except when used in a few select orchestral pieces such as Mars.

I have no had one person know what it is when I tell them what I play "you play a what?"

One of my good friends (and her dad) plays the euphonium. I love its sound! (definitely "sonorous").

I myself play the oboe (I know... the what?). It is a double reed instrument like the bassoon. The "mouthpiece" is two tiny strips of cane tied together around a metal tube. The body of the instrument looks like a clarinet, but is more tapered/conical. I absolutely love oboe. Oboes are in bands and orchestras. And I also played classical piano for a while and then switched to organ recently.

You can listen to a clip of oboe music here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...ce&s=classical
Scroll down and click "listen" for the fifth track, "concerto for oboe and strings".

[HOBBIT]

The oboe has a nice sound too - but in a different way.

It does get tiring explaining the euphonium to people, and to get them to even understand a little bit of what it is and what it looks like, I am forced to say it is a "mini-tuba" when it isn't a tuba and sounds nothing like a tuba.

I think most people know what an oboe is, right?

[Nurvingiel]

My brother plays the oboe, it's a wonderful instrument, I love it.

I know what a euphonium is Hobbit. I think it sounds like a mini-tuba! *runs*

Just kidding!

[azalea]

I have a set of reed pipes that I can play Mary had a Little Lamb on! You have to blow and "tuh!" over the top of them, kind of like you can do with a beer bottle.
My great aunt plays the psaltery. She plays several different instruments, and was in a few bands that specialized in medieval music and the like.
I want to add that I love the sound of the digeridoo.

[Khamûl]

As for my specialty instrument, I can play my homemade kazoo, manufactured by putting wax paper over a comb like you did when you were seven and watched that episode of Reading Rainbow. You know you did it too...

[Anglorfin]

Originally posted by Khamûl
As for my specialty instrument, I can play my homemade kazoo, manufactured by putting wax paper over a comb like you did when you were seven and watched that episode of Reading Rainbow. You know you did it too...

yeah, I did.