Who plays an instrument?

[mcniggleston]

I do! ;D

I'm a guitarist, also a lefty and a Kramerite!

Here's some of my kids :

1997 Yamaha RGX : Custom paint, otherwise bone stock..


1983 Westone Concord II : Mint condition...very few ever made in lefty


1988 Kramer XL2 twins : One heavily modded, one lightly modded, both are same year, model, and were once the same color.


Early 1980's Roy Clark Signature : A cool find for $40 for one of my guitar idols =D


1988 Memphic S3FT : A heavy one....but cool for..can't play it, but for the price, i couldnt pass it up.


1987 Kramer Baretta :

And last but not least...my custom shop axe (erm...scythe), made by Tony Padilla at Mutt Guitars :
The Mutt Reaper : designed from the 1984 Kramer Grim Reaper crafted by Bill Connelly (the guy who did Van Halen's axes for a long time). Only 9 originals are known to exist (I've tracked down 2 myself.) Here she is!

For a look on size....here's myself with The Reaper...it's HUGE

Was modeled off Nick Bowcott's (original lead guitarist of Grim Reaper) 1984 lefty Reaper, which is the only lefty Reaper in existance,where it hangs in his office :
Nick's Reaper (picture sent by Nick himself, thanks!):


You turn guys! ;D

[OskyCMK]

I have a Best Buy guitar "Starcaster by Fender".


That is NOT my photo. It's a photo I found via google search. But that is how mine looks like (except for that glitter sticker under the bridge).

It ain't the best guitar but it's what I got. I bought it for $100 when I was a guitar noob 4ish years ago. I honestly don't practice as much as I should. But I enjoy myself and that's what matters. Right now I don't have an amp (last amp was loaned to me for a while) but when I buy one I think I'll be practicing a hell of a lot more.

[Deleted]

I've learned a little bit about Piano and Keyboard. I don't have one with me to practice anymore so It'll be awhile before I can pick one up and play again sadly.

[alexandre]

Yamaha P 70.

It's all the piano I'll ever need and more... assuming I have an electric outlet handy.

It's a great electric piano for an amateur like me: simple, lightweight, cheap, high quality sound, 88 weighted keys, more than enough polyphony (a cat could lie on it and still have notes to spare), and a music stand built in!

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[Dark Ermac]

I have a keyboard. It's not with me right now, what with being in college and having no space for it. I've been playing for six years or so.

[toxik87]

Guitar for me too- i've played for a few years metal, i'm ok- i still do though i just learn songs and then after not playing them after awhile i forget them and after doing that for some time i finally felt ready to start writing my own stuff- over the last year i've written 4 Songs, their names are: Track Listing

1.Dealer of Death
2.Victims of Violence
3.Abhorrent Factions
4.Beaten To Obey

and I already have 2 more titles for the next ones- they're

5.Serpico
6.Civilized Hatred > i have the opening riff for this one

they sound along the style of Vio-Lence and Coroner Combined- so i studied up on their sound and what makes Vio-Lence so damn heavy i feel pretty good on what i've written so far

[toxik87]

Nobody Steal this haha
This is my band Logo as you could see it bears resemblence to a little something to the left Combined with the thickness of Vio-lence's lettering and a few other touches

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[toxik87]

yeah i want to bust out some vocals like Sean Killian one day- if you haven't heard him it's probably not what you think it isn't a bunch of growls all over the place it's just fast paced kind of berating that's sort of high pitched yelling i guess you could say haha- yeah it's my favorite vocals

[brutalknuckles]

I guess I should upload my arsenal...

My favorite, an Ernie Ball Musicman John Petrucci Signature


My second favorite, an Agile Septor 7 string (modded with Duncan Blackout pickups)


My brother got me this for my birthday, a Fender MIM Strat


A Fernandes FD-65 with a Sustainer (I freaking love this thing)


My favorite guitar to record with, a PRS SE Standard 22

And it is signed by Dweezil Zappa


Next is an Ibanez RG320 modded with a set of Dimarzio John Petucci pickups


My first guitar I ever owned, a Squire Stratocaster 7 string


A 1965 Gretch Streamliner


My main acoustic, an Alvarez (I don't know the model, just some beginner guitar)


And an acoustic my grandpa made (it has a nice delta blues sound)


My main bass, a Peavey Grind 5


And my first bass, a Yamaha RBX



I also have an Indonesian knock off of the EBMM JP, and a couple more acoustics I didn't want to dig out of the closet.

And you can hear some of my jamz (and I am currently working on a new original song, and a couple of covers): soundcloud.com/kyle-garrett

[bear]

I played trumpet in middle school jazz band 10 years ago hahaha! I was pretty alright actually I had a solo. I always appreciated the guitar but don't know crap about it. Maybe one day when I have more time and money I'll give it a whirl. Some of you guys have quite the collections.

[toxik87]

brutalknuckles: Nice collection man, did your grandpa make that guitar from scratch?

[toxik87]

Sept 6, 2012 22:46:20 GMT -5 bear said:

I played trumpet in middle school jazz band 10 years ago hahaha! I was pretty alright actually I had a solo. I always appreciated the guitar but don't know crap about it. Maybe one day when I have more time and money I'll give it a whirl. Some of you guys have quite the collections.

yeah dude you should pick one up- i was fortunate that my dad was already into guitars

[brutalknuckles]

Sept 8, 2012 16:24:00 GMT -5 toxik87 said:

brutalknuckles: Nice collection man, did your grandpa make that guitar from scratch?

Yup. He bought the tuners and the bridge from a mail-order catalog, and build the rest.

[toxik87]

brutalknuckles:That's really cool dude

[W. Calamari]

I've been playing my alto sax more recently, but that's about it.