Anyone here play any "Stringed" instruments?

[Drage]

Like Violin, Viola, Cello, Upright Bass?

I've been playing the Violin for over a year and I've been making some solid progress. It'll take a few more years for me to tackle the 5th Caprice, but Im enjoying the instrument nonetheless. Anyone else?

(Hopefully this is the most appropriate section in put this thread in...)

 

[zak]

I'm on a Lute quest...

 

[Stitch]

I play the Turkish Oud.

 

[Trespass]

Appalachian Dulcimer. I just trance out and apply my theory and play pleasant sounding stuff. Don't know what I'm playing half the time, but whenever I hit a discordant tone I'm usually jarred back to reality.

I'll lose touch for 20-30 minutes at a time. Its great.

 

[Naren]

I play the mandolin, which is tuned like a violin, although it's strung much like a guitar (just with a much much shorter scale).

I left it in the states, so I haven't played it recently. I really like the mandola as well. My uncle has a lot of ethnic stringed instruments that I like to try my hand at when I go to his house.

 

[rasav]

I play violin and cello but I cheated by using 1/16" car pinstriping to mark out the position of the notes. I use 17.835 / by the bridge to nut length to get placement location and a cheap micrometer to get it close to accurate. (Accuracy makes a big differance in violins. For cellos, close is ok.)

 

[ZeroSignal]

I play the Turkish Oud.

Where did you get one of them? I wanted my dad to get me one when he went to Morocco... But alas...

 

[Reynolds]

I've been playing violin a few years, I screw around with my friend's cello sometimes. I have another that is learning upright bass.

 

[damigu]

i used to play viola a long time ago.

when a friend brought a violin over a few months ago, i discovered that my body still remembered the right ways to hold the stick and instrument and roughly where most of the notes are (i was a little sharp on most of the notes because i played viola, not violin, and the shorter scale was throwing me).

 

[Brendan G]

When I was in band in eighth grade I would use the school's upright bass when I forgot mine, does that count?

 

[Mattmc74]

I played the upright bass in the high school band.

 

[hufschmid]

I'm a huge fan of the Luth....

I would like to buy one and try to learn how to play a Luth

 

[Tom Drinkwater]

I have a violin, cello, mandolin, octave mandolin, lap harp and 34 string celtic harp at my disposal. Due to having extremely bad arthritis I am limited to playing only for about 20 per day so I stick to the classical guitar more often than not. If I didn't love the guitar so much I would probably move onto harp because of the tone and the nice comfy posture. I really love the sound of bowed instruments though. I would love to try out a guitarviol.

 

[vampiregenocide]

I play double bass.

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

For a short while I played viola in middle school.

 

[distressed_romeo]

I dabble in mandolin.

 

[troyguitar]

I rented a violin once but couldn't get the hang of having to hold my instrument up in the air whilst playing it...

I've been thinking about grabbing an electric cello when I have some extra cash, or maybe taking some actual violin lessons.

 

[Ckackley]

I play a good bit of Greek Bazouki. Its set up with 8 strings tuned in pairs like a 12 string guitar tuned ADAD. Sometimes I'll tune it DGBE so I can play conventional guitar chords . I play Mandolin too.

 

[vontetzianos]

I play a good bit of Greek Bazouki. Its set up with 8 strings tuned in pairs like a 12 string guitar tuned ADAD. Sometimes I'll tune it DGBE so I can play conventional guitar chords.

. I used to play bouzouki as well! My grandmother came from Kefalonia and she loved the bouzouki.



My brother used to play the viola but I never really got the hang of it.