What do you play?
Amit Kumar Singh
Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:26 UTC
Dear Bronwen.. great work.. Really love this musical scientist group idea..
I love my Indi-Punjabi Guitar Tabs..
Just wondering how many of us have real taste of life … (soul of music..) doesn’t matter what scale .. or what language…..
so who is rocking today ?? hiyaa…
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Hi Amit,
I thought that the forum might be fun—let’s see how it goes. I play the piano—mostly classical though I do enjoy playing by ear and as far as that goes my taste tends to be rather square (okay, old-fashioned).
Here are my hands doing a Bach prelude:
Took hordes of photos playing different things and nothing looks terribly impressive. At least this photo is “interesting”. :)
Bye for now.
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Haven’t written anything meaningful in a while, but I am a keyboard-playing hack and am much happier doing the synthesizer thang
Dual Nature of Matter
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Rock and blues keyboards, accordion, pandemonium, tantrums. I used to be the second-best blues organist in south Essex. Once the proud owner of a keyboard rig that looked like this
I now own but one keyboard, a Korg TR61. However, I am nursing a not-so-secret ambition to acquire a Hammond XK1, so I can aim at being the second-best blues organist in North Norfolk. Nothing like aiming high, I always think. -
Nothing wrong with that. All I have ever wanted was a class B3 and a Modular Moog :)
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... and a high-top transit van and several beefy mates to help you carry it all around!
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I deeply regret not playing anything (except the recorder, which doesn’t count as a musical instrument in most households) – when I started secondary school they asked us what instrument we’d like to learn and I said the organ (we did have one at school, and I just though the sound was so phenomenal). They wouldn’t let me because they only had one person who could teach, and he was only prepared to take on people with keyboard experience. Sigh.
However, I do still ‘play’ the cheapest instrument around, the voice. After being in a school choir that used to provide the boy’s voice parts for the Halle Orchestra, I went on to sing in one of the lesser (but still fairly respectable) Cambridge college chapel choirs, Selwyn. This also brought me an intro to barbershop, which I hate listening to, but love singing.
Mostly since, the genre I’ve stuck with is church music, by preference the Tudor & Elizabethan stuff which is gorgeous and often surprising. (Someone like John Sheppard is always doing stuff you think ‘he can’t do that!’ But he does.)
My preference is small choirs – I think if there’s more than 1 or 2 a part there’s not much point me singing.
Partly as a way of getting into village life, I started singing with the local village choir a while ago. When the choirmaster left, everyone else took a step back and I was left conducting it, which was quite frightening to begin with, but I’m getting the hang of it now.
Sorry, that’s become a bit of a life history – but like many with a science background (it’s interesting that 4 out of 6 members of our college music society committee in my day were science students), music is an important part of my life.
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We also had recorder lessons at school, Brian, which may be a relic of colonial times, as it was an all-girls convent school in Malaysia. Sometimes an ancient English nun or two was present at our lessons.
And I used to play the piano (private lessons as the school did not have the capacity to teach everyone). I wish I could sing (decently)!
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i play guitar (badly), bass guitar (adequately) and tuba (slightly better)
[inserts devil horns]
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Drums and percussion since I was 6 years old. Bass for a while, but a couple orders of magnitude worse than be drumming skills…
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