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Laboratory
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Laboratory wrote:

Today I was thinking we could have a little chat about musical instruments!

I personally have always been very fond of listening to music as well as playing instruments myself and expressing myself throughout music. I love attaining more & more skills musically and I like how accomplished I feel once I'm finally able to pull a song off.

Playing & practicing music is just overall great for mind & soul. But one thing not everyone may know is the fact that practicing music is extremely healthy for the brain! Playing a musical instrument is basically the brain equivalent of doing a full-body workout. Playing an instrument puts almost all parts of the brain to work & can strengthen memory power as both sides of the brain are active when on music-duty!

As some may have seen me write in other places here on VP, I recently (ish) purchased a kalimba! I am so very much in love with the sound of it & how much at ease I am when playing. I love that the instrument itself sounds so amazing, cause I don't feel myself producing a lot of "beginners noise" - making practicing & playing more .. enjoyable to me.

To kick off the conversation I've got some questions for all of you:

- Do yo play any instruments yourself?
If yes: What do you play & for how long have you played? Have you been classically trained or are you self-taught?
If no: Do you want to learn an instrument eventually, or are you perhaps just not interested?
- Do you have a favorite instrument?
- Is there a particular instrument you would want & don't have yet?

I hope you will join this little chat ♡

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Ground wrote:
i don't play any now but at one point i used to play cello n i had lessons at a place here in my city, but this was probably 12 years ago
since then i haven't played any n haven't found interests
but !!! i do like the kalimba n it sounds so beautiful when i've heard u play it aaa <33
my faves must be harp n kalimba for sure !! sounds so peaceful n relaxing !

Aria
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Aria wrote:
I used to play the piano and the baritone till 6th grade but I stopped and didn't play for at list 7 years

Laboratory
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Laboratory wrote:

Crawk wrote:
i don't play any now but at one point i used to play cello n i had lessons at a place here in my city, but this was probably 12 years ago
since then i haven't played any n haven't found interests
but !!! i do like the kalimba n it sounds so beautiful when i've heard u play it aaa <33
my faves must be harp n kalimba for sure !! sounds so peaceful n relaxing !

Aaa that's nice though !!11 didnt know u used to play heh,,, did ya get any good?

n yea I mean interests come n go n some ppl just dont care for playing music or like can't really enjoy it enough to keep learning ig,,
n aw

<333 I wanna send u another update at some point,,, have learned my 2nd song now.. Still haven't memorized it quite yet but it's almost in there now !! like if I've just played it through with my notes in front of me like 2-3 times I can play it right after without looking but like if I try first thing in the morning w/out my notes I'm like -first part yes gorgeous, 2nd part yes ??? ... n then I just ,, brainfart-

but it was like that w the last song as well so I think once I've played it through another like uhm 35-50 times it should be stuck in there... slow brain

aaahhh the harP yes omg so gorgeous ..

Ive only met 1 harp player in my life idk where they all hiding

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remains wrote:
i enjoyed playing drums n xylophone in school but i didnt rly ever get a huge interest in playing, im sure if my mom put me in piano lessons at 5 or smth i would be great but it's just one of those things that require so much time and money and effort to learn it's not on my list of things to do, unfortunately

Laboratory
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Laboratory wrote:

Aria wrote:
I used to play the piano and the baritone till 6th grade but I stopped and didn't play for at list 7 years

Aww dang.. did u just loose interest or? & but yeah I used to play a lot of guitar as well n I've just sorta let that skill ... rot lmao

so I can relate x

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ouch wrote:
I could play violin before but im anti music qnd instruments now so I quit cus all is aqhhaa no

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Ground wrote:

Laboratory wrote:

Crawk wrote:
i don't play any now but at one point i used to play cello n i had lessons at a place here in my city, but this was probably 12 years ago
since then i haven't played any n haven't found interests
but !!! i do like the kalimba n it sounds so beautiful when i've heard u play it aaa <33
my faves must be harp n kalimba for sure !! sounds so peaceful n relaxing !

Aaa that's nice though !!11 didnt know u used to play heh,,, did ya get any good?

n yea I mean interests come n go n some ppl just dont care for playing music or like can't really enjoy it enough to keep learning ig,,
n aw

<333 I wanna send u another update at some point,,, have learned my 2nd song now.. Still haven't memorized it quite yet but it's almost in there now !! like if I've just played it through with my notes in front of me like 2-3 times I can play it right after without looking but like if I try first thing in the morning w/out my notes I'm like -first part yes gorgeous, 2nd part yes ??? ... n then I just ,, brainfart-

but it was like that w the last song as well so I think once I've played it through another like uhm 35-50 times it should be stuck in there... slow brain

aaahhh the harP yes omg so gorgeous ..

Ive only met 1 harp player in my life idk where they all hiding

hehe!! hmm yeah quite good !! but then the teacher quit n i didn't want someone else, which led me to quit altogether
very tru!!!
woho!!! aa ur learning so quick tho !!! veyr proud of u <33 but i feel u with the memory thing mnjbhvgc

yes aaaa !! never met any1 i think but when i've watched videos of it, it has been so lovely <3

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Arix wrote:
Cool thread! Ive played bass guitar for around 8 years now... damn that’s a long time

I play all sorts of stuff and I’m like 50% self-taught, I’ve taken classes outside of school before but right now i study music at school, with bass as my main instrument. I just got this sexy fender jazz bass as my 18th birthday gift i love it sooo much aaaaa

Laboratory
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Laboratory wrote:

bones wrote:
i enjoyed playing drums n xylophone in school but i didnt rly ever get a huge interest in playing, im sure if my mom put me in piano lessons at 5 or smth i would be great but it's just one of those things that require so much time and money and effort to learn it's not on my list of things to do, unfortunately

ok but yes xylophone !1 I played the xylophone onCE in music class in like 5th grade or smh and I was living my best life on that stage w those tiny drumstick thingies

but yeah no music is def requiring hh I understand it's not everyone's thing lmao (':

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Laboratory wrote:

ouch wrote:
I could play violin before but im anti music qnd instruments now so I quit cus all is aqhhaa no

anti music wth get ouTTa my thread /j

Aria
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Aria wrote:

Laboratory wrote:

Aria wrote:
I used to play the piano and the baritone till 6th grade but I stopped and didn't play for at list 7 years

Aww dang.. did u just loose interest or? & but yeah I used to play a lot of guitar as well n I've just sorta let that skill ... rot lmao

so I can relate x

not interest but in 4 grade we had 2 chose what instrument we would love to learn how play and apparently my lungs were really strong and we chose baritone for me(bad decision bc it was really heavy lol) and Pino we played since first grade, after I graduated from the elementary school I moved to middle high school so I just didn't play it since

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Laboratory wrote:

Crawk wrote:

Laboratory wrote:

Crawk wrote:
i don't play any now but at one point i used to play cello n i had lessons at a place here in my city, but this was probably 12 years ago
since then i haven't played any n haven't found interests
but !!! i do like the kalimba n it sounds so beautiful when i've heard u play it aaa <33
my faves must be harp n kalimba for sure !! sounds so peaceful n relaxing !

Aaa that's nice though !!11 didnt know u used to play heh,,, did ya get any good?

n yea I mean interests come n go n some ppl just dont care for playing music or like can't really enjoy it enough to keep learning ig,,
n aw

<333 I wanna send u another update at some point,,, have learned my 2nd song now.. Still haven't memorized it quite yet but it's almost in there now !! like if I've just played it through with my notes in front of me like 2-3 times I can play it right after without looking but like if I try first thing in the morning w/out my notes I'm like -first part yes gorgeous, 2nd part yes ??? ... n then I just ,, brainfart-

but it was like that w the last song as well so I think once I've played it through another like uhm 35-50 times it should be stuck in there... slow brain

aaahhh the harP yes omg so gorgeous ..

Ive only met 1 harp player in my life idk where they all hiding

hehe!! hmm yeah quite good !! but then the teacher quit n i didn't want someone else, which led me to quit altogether
very tru!!!
woho!!! aa ur learning so quick tho !!! veyr proud of u <33 but i feel u with the memory thing mnjbhvgc

yes aaaa !! never met any1 i think but when i've watched videos of it, it has been so lovely <3

aww mann that sucks ... thats totally something that could've made me quit as well esp if it was someone I really liked oof

aww tysM I actually feel like I'm learning suPEr slow cause like .. im just not picking it up n actually playing as much as I'd like to ....bhbh but thanks <333 im like at that point now where id just love to b able 2 play morE songs
cause like when I switch from "now imma practice this song im learning" to "now im just gonna play" I only have billie eilish n you are my sunshine as options n it just aint it

N yesS omg I should watch some more harp videos actuallY.. thanks for that idea heh
but yea I bet a harp is prob hella expensive too n like .. where in the hell o u even go 2 learn to play lmao so it makes sense there arent a lot of .. harp players ig

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Ground wrote:

Laboratory wrote:

Crawk wrote:

Laboratory wrote:

Aaa that's nice though !!11 didnt know u used to play heh,,, did ya get any good?