Do you play any instrument? At what age did you begin to learn it?

Question

Do you play any instrument? At what age did you begin to learn it?

Answer 1

Guitar and bass. Picked up guitar at 22 I think.

Answer 2

I was forced to take piano lessons when I was in the second or third grade, and had taken them for several years since then.  I'm still not that good at the piano.  At one point I had a piano teacher who looked just like Mrs. Doubtfire.  She asked me, "What kind of music do you like, dear?"  I told her I enjoyed pop, rock, and some classical.  "Wonderful!  I'll bring some new music on my next visit!"  Next lesson, sure enough, she brought some music.  The newest song in the collection was "I love you truly".  Great.  Just great.  I dreaded piano lessons.

Answer 3

Piano at 12. Did not have a choice at school. The teacher put me in for Piano even though I said I'd like to learn the violin like my friends but there wasn't enough space.

Answer 4

No.  I tried the drums and trumpet as a kid and failed at both.  The teacher I tried drums with told me flatly "You can't keep a beat...which is the entire point of the drums." and encouraged me to give up.  Which I did.  

Answer 5

Guitar, starting at age 15.

Answer 6

I don't play any instrument

Answer 7

The piano at age 10.

Answer 8

I  play the Saz , started to learn at the age of 4/5 from my father who was brilliant on the Saz. well respected for his talent among the community

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Answer 9

Nothing virtuoso.



I can actually play piano reading sheet music, but with any form of guitar I have to go tablature - which means I have to have heard the song at least once. 



I've not done much drumming, but seems instinctive because it is fun - other than the really technical jazz drumming where the music keeps switching speed - THAT kind of drumming I wouldn't be very great at without a lot of rehearsing.



Anyway, I started learning piano when I was about 15.



I'm not concert-level at all, but can play it. 



For whatever reason the black-and-white keys are easier to memorize as far as what notes they represent, vs. a dim wooden fretboard where everything looks the same, but changes depending on which string is struck. 



Piano keys just repeat themselves, but go higher in octave the further right you go. 

Answer 10

I learned to play the piano at 8 years old.

Answer 11

no, i dont play any

Answer 12

Just my organ. 

Answer 13

Drums started playing when I was 6

Answer 14

I like playing the drums, i was 15 when i started

Answer 15

i play the fool and good at it

Answer 16

Drums starting at age 10. I'd still be kickin *** if I had a kit.☹️

Answer 17

I started learning the flute at about nine

Answer 18

I learned to play the piano at 8 years old.

Answer 19

16 years old. Played the guitar. But I let it lapse, because of swimming and soccer.

Answer 20

13 Trombone.                                               .

Answer 21

yes guitar and keyboard , learnt the guitar at 12 and keyboard at 18 . 

Answer 22

No I don't but everyone in my family did. My Mother the piano, my 2 brothers piano and organ, my father the harmonica and me well someone had to sit and listen, right?

Answer 23

I'm not sure if these count as still playing, but I played alto sax in the school band, starting at age 12, ending at age 23.  Haven't touched it much, since.



Around age 35, I started carrying a harmonica and playing it.  I don't carry it, anymore - a cell phone holster now goes where the harmonica holster used to.



I don't really play the piano, but at age 56, I learned enough to play an accompaniment while singing a song for my wife on our anniversary.

Answer 24

Yes i do, i do play it as autodidact.

Answer 25

I play guitar and started when I was15, 59 years ago. I still perform in a Rock n Roll band.

Answer 26

I play Harmonica and started when I was around 12.

Answer 27

I play the Violin, started  at the  age of  6, classically trained  until age 18. I play the  Guitar trained  by  myself, started  at  about  16  years of  age(hoping to pick  up  girls,The  violin  wasnt a great, meeting girls  sort of instrument) I play the Mandolin, its  just  like a Violin that  you  strum or  pick.

Answer 28

Yes i am Great at Playing the Stereo player I can Play Records, Tapes CD.s or 7 inch open reel



Not many people can do that



Note It is a Musical Instrument

Answer 29

No, I have no musical talent at all.  And I'm genuinely surprised that as of this time there are no answers describing playing the skin flute.

Answer 30

No, I don't hun.

Answer 31

No, I don't play any instrument.

Answer 32

Trumpet in 4th grade.  The music teacher said my jaw and lip structure was more suited to the trombone, but I wanted to be a trumpet player....this was the mid-60's when Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass was big.



By the time I got to 7th grade, I'd switched to the baritone horn (it's like an undersized tuba...photo below), and in 9th grade, I was playing trombone for the marching and jazz bands.



If I tried to play now, I'd probably pass out from the effort.

Answer 33

I play the violin and I just started playing last year but I play so good because God has anointed me to play it

Answer 34

No                        

Answer 35

YOU NOT FRANK OCEAN SO STOP ACTING LIKE IT

Answer 36

I can play the mouth organ, I started aged 8.

Answer 37

The flute. Twelve or so. 

Answer 38

I got a classical guitar for Christmas at 14 that started a lifelong love of the instrument.

Answer 39

Sadly, no. I did take piano and guitar lessons before this pandemic / during pandemic, but I stopped. I miss them, and I have YT (YouTube) as well.

Answer 40

Accordion - age 6

Trumpet - age 10

Organ - age 12

Current age - 72

Answer 41

Pink piccolo, eleven.

Answer 42

I took guitar lessons for 4-5 years as a young kid. I regret not staying with it.

Answer 43

I never played a musical instrument.

Answer 44

I have no interest in any music instruments. 

Answer 45

Not anymore but I used to play piano. Age 12

Answer 46

No, despite having had several singing teachers and two piano teachers I have failed to grasp how to read music.  I have now given up trying.

Answer 47

I sing.

Id love to get  keyboard and an electronic organ  Play harpsichord....................

Answer 48

I play clarinet and tenor saxophone. I started learning both at 13 when I started high school and joined band.

Answer 49

This may sound silly, but I'm not sure these days.

I started playing guitar when I was about 13 (a good few years ago!), being "a child of the 60s"). Nowadays I don't own a guitar so don't know if that counts. But I did pick up my friend's guitar about 5 years ago, and my fingers fell in to the chord shapes very easily.

It's much the same with the trumpet - which I used to play in public quite regularly. I can still play a basic scale and a few simple tunes, but the tone isn't there, and I wouldn't inflict my playing on the public these days.

Answer 50

I've been playing lead guitar for many decades hey thank you I started pre teen

Answer 51

Yes, a trumpet. I was about 11 or 12.

Answer 52

I play guitar, drums. and bass. Completely self-taught. Started when I was 13 or 14 years old.



I did take accordion lessons before that, but I cannot play the accordion now. LOL!

Answer 53

Triangle. I learned it in fifth grade. For some reason, no heavy metal bands want to hire me. 

Answer 54

Guitar. I think I was been 18.

Answer 55

Self-taught, I play guitar, bass & make rational noise on keyboards.  I began at 15.  I understand sheet music a bit.  I can read the notes, but not how it makes the tempo.  I play by "ear." 

Answer 56

Piano.  Started age 6 had lessons until 23.

Answer 57

I am 23 and teaching myself keyboard