Way OT: Lever Gunners & Musical Instruments.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:38 pm

Just out of curiosity I got to wondering if and if so what
Musical instruments you all play

I for one “used” to play the Cornet, wish at times I still had it.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:58 pm

Can't hold a note in a bucket nor can I play any form of musical instrument.

I can keep time with my rifles lever though......

Joe

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:02 pm

Been a drummer since the 5th grade.

Have been thinking about a new drum set lately just to annoy the hillbilly neighbors!

jb

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:05 pm

I have at one time or another, and to vastly varying degrees, played the: trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tuba, trombone, french horn, flugle horn, tenor/baritone sax, rythm/bass guitar. I also sing.

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:18 pm

Played trombone in JH/HS. All I can play now is the radio...

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:37 pm

I play the native american flute, nearly every night and it goes with me on my walks, and in my hunting gear. I also play with the harmonica and Dijerdoo, and austraillian music sticks.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:47 pm

Most valved Brass, some Flute/fife.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:52 pm

I play acoustic and electric guitar.

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:53 pm

Clarinet

Post by **Hobie** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:55 pm

I tried to learn to play the trumpet when I was about 8 but got braces soon after and had to stop. I wish I could play an instrument. I have thought about taking up the bagpipes...

alnitak · Post by **alnitak** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:34 pm

Saxaphone for a number of years (but don't own one now), acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica and piano. Not an expert in any.

DadsMod12 · Post by **DadsMod12** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:52 pm

Okay, this is just strange. I've been reading and learning on this forum for the last 5 months, and now within the last 24 hours there have been 2 posts I have just had to reply to.

I'm a band director. I can play all the normal band instruments. I can't play the guitar or the piano.

Buffboy · Post by **Buffboy** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:04 pm

kimwcook wrote:I play acoustic and electric guitar.

+1

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:42 pm

Played Trumpet as a kid(only instrument I read music for). Also Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar, Tin Whistle, peck on the Piano, and I have a Cavalry Bugle that I rouse my boys with sometimes.

Like Hobie, I've always had a desire to play the Bag Pipes, and the 5 string Banjo.

Dadsmod12, Welcome!!!!

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:44 pm

I can barely play a radio and couldn't carry a tune in a wheelbarrow.

adirondakjack · Post by **adirondakjack** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:49 pm

Taught myself to play harmonica a few years ago. It was a tough few months for the family, who endured the noise until it started to sound like music.

My kids are the real musicians in the house. Both play guitar (one real well, the other enough to impress girls) , and one plays clarinet VERY well.

KWK · Post by **KWK** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:05 pm

I played tuba as a kid. My son is taking trumpet lessons, and to encourage him, I practice with him on a soprano trombone (in the same pitch).

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:38 pm

Joined the musicians union at 14, played in Army Bands from 72-92 and now just play when it suits me, which is not that much anymore, wanted to make more time for shooting, fishing and scoot riding.....

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:02 am

started out on mandolin, then fiddle, then banjo, now playing mostly clarinet (I have nearly all the sizes) and guitar.

Just bought my first ukulele and am liking it quite a bit.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:51 am

Well don't let this get around, but I play the Alto Sax and a little harmonica, especially when I'm in the wilderness (the harmonica that is, not the sax).

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:12 am

KirkD wrote:Well don't let this get around, but I play the Alto Sax and a little harmonica, especially when I'm in the wilderness (the harmonica that is, not the sax).

If I can manage the extra weight, I like to take a flute (usually a bamboo alto) to the woods.

The phrase "Haunting Sounds" cannot begon to describe playing to your own echo across a mountian lake at daybreak...

Jayhawker · Post by **Jayhawker** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:19 am

I've played bass and drums, but not in quite awhile. I'd love to learn harmonica, but it's hard with a handlebar mustache.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:23 am

Jayhawker wrote:I've played bass and drums, but not in quite awhile. I'd love to learn harmonica, but it's hard with a handlebar mustache.

Not as hard as playing the Jaw Harp with a Handlebar...

dr walker · Post by **dr walker** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:26 am

I play a guitar, poorly....... I practice daily for a few months and then I forget about it for a few months and the cycle continues. I have been doing this for 20 years.

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:37 pm

I played trumpet as a kid.

Then I got a degree in Early Music performance.

Recorder and baroque flute were my main instruments.

I really don't play much anymore after a hand injury.

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:05 pm

Been playing Guitar since 3 (my mom taught music)
Currently I have:
1973 Fender Telecaster Deluxe electric
1975 Guild D35 acoustic
2006 700 series Quilted Maple Hohner acoustic
2004 Martin D16 Rosewood acoustic
2008 Fender 45FM nylon Flamenco

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:05 pm

Played trumpet in school so I bought a coronet at a yard sale a few years back. I try not to annoy the family with it. Same with the 5 string banjo. I like clawhammer not bluegrass pickin though.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:33 pm

Old Ironsights wrote: If I can manage the extra weight, I like to take a flute (usually a bamboo alto) to the woods.

The phrase "Haunting Sounds" cannot begon to describe playing to your own echo across a mountian lake at daybreak...

Now that would sound nice!

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:27 pm

madman4570 wrote:Been playing Guitar since 3 (my mom taught music)
Currently I have:
1973 Fender Telecaster Deluxe electric
1975 Guild D35 acoustic
2006 700 series Quilted Maple Hohner acoustic
2004 Martin D16 Rosewood acoustic
2008 Fender 45FM nylon Flamenco

WOW

Very nice collection.
So levers are not the only things some of us collect.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:29 pm

stretch wrote:I played trumpet as a kid.

Then I got a degree in Early Music performance.

Recorder and baroque flute were my main instruments.

I really don't play much anymore after a hand injury.

I love Baroque Flute done on an wood open hole flute...

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:09 pm

"I love Baroque Flute done on an wood open hole flute..."

Me, too!

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:12 pm

I recently picked up the trombone again. I have made and play around with wooden flutes. Most my time is spent singing and playing the mandolin.

Being a church choir director provides opportunities.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:17 pm

20cows wrote:I recently picked up the trombone again. I have made and play around with wooden flutes. Most my time is spent singing and playing the mandolin.

Being a church choir director provides opportunities.

Of all the brass, slide trombone irs the one I've spent the least time on.

I do Valves and Bugles, but my slide work is marginal...

draperjojo · Post by **draperjojo** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:15 pm

Guitars.....all of them

Travis Morgan · Post by **Travis Morgan** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:12 am

I can play THE HELL out of an MP3 player!

ETA: With a big enough magazine, I can play "The camptown lady" on steel targets.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:21 am

draperjojo wrote:Guitars.....all of them

Guitarzan?

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:48 am

Draperjojo,

Holy cow!
Man I would like to get my hands on some of them babys.sweet

I love Gibsons!!! Man you got everything there. I had a 1956 colorburst Fender Strat that my wife talked me into getting rid of.Wish I hadnt.When they pulled the neck to verify I felt faint after I saw the pencil writing.The guys at the shop were blown away.

I almost have her talked into letting me get a PRS though.

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:54 am

God bless you guys - I gave up the flutophone in 4th grade.

piller · Post by **piller** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:05 am

Irish and Welsh in my ancestry, and somehow I am totally tone deaf. I hardly ever even listen to music, much less play an instrument.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:42 pm

"draperjojo"

Or is it the "lever Forum Nug"

Very nice collection indeed.

getitdone1 · Post by **getitdone1** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:33 pm

I may like music and musical instruments better than guns. It's great to enjoy both and that's what really matters.

My best performance comes from a chromatic (button on the end) harmonica. I also "play a little" guitar and tinker with the piano. My favorite instrument is the piano and I plan--at age 68--to take some piano lessons before too long.

Favorite music is the pop music of the 30's, 40's, sometimes called "Dance Band Music". A couple of favorite tunes are Deep Purple and Stardust. Lazybones is another.

Nearly forgot, I like the Tenor Banjo and might buy a Plectrum before too long since I think it has a prettier sound. Less "plunky" if you know what I mean.

Right now I'm rather tied-up restoring an old farm tractor and everything else is taking a back seat.

I'm Rich with interests and that's much of what life's all about !!

Don McCullough

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:34 pm

Gosh, too bad we didnt all live closer together,we could form
a band (Hobie could be band director) and when the times came
for the symbols to be clashed we could instead have Old Savage
just shoot off a bang with one of his guns!!!

Heck, for a grand finale we could put down our instruments and
all shoot off our guns in sync in the air.(we should have blanks,I guess)

Call it---- LevGun Old Time Band

Terry Murbach · Post by **Terry Murbach** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:53 pm

WELL NOW, I LEARNED TO PLAY A MEAN PHONOGRAPH IN MY YOUTH AND WAS THE BEST DADDY-O ON THE RADEE-O YOU EVER HEARD.....
JUDY PLAYS EVERY STRING INSTRUMENT THERE IS, AND TEACHES THE SAME, PLUS SHE PLAYS AND TEACHES THE PIANO [ PIANOFORTE TO YOU TRUE LONGHAIRS...]

GANJIRO · Post by **GANJIRO** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:03 pm

Getting back into playing ukulele after several years of abstinence. Also learning myself the Harmonica, hopefully can play both at same time.

Since I haven't been able to do much shooting (last shots fired at Texas Leverguns Safari '08) I've been searching for deals on nice solid wood ukuleles instead of leverguns, found few beauties.

Travis Morgan · Post by **Travis Morgan** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:36 pm

GANJIRO wrote:Getting back into playing ukulele after several years of abstinence. Also learning myself the Harmonica, hopefully can play both at same time.
Since I haven't been able to do much shooting (last shots fired at Texas Leverguns Safari '08) I've been searching for deals on nice solid wood ukuleles instead of leverguns, found few beauties.

I guess it's easier than trying to find vagina repellant.

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:04 pm

Travis,
I might be dense, but I dont get that one????????????

What kind of repellant?

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:00 pm

Oh boy...........groan

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:13 pm

I don't play no musical instruments but my son, Sixgun Jr. plays the skin flute

(Oh man, I hope he see's this)-----------Sixgun

CBY-32/20 · Post by **CBY-32/20** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:46 pm

Acoustic Guitar, harmonica, and Vocals

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm

Never mind my wife explained it to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!