Any serious musicians?

[SqueakyOnion]

I'm just curious how many of you are serious musicians?

Professional musicians? public school music teachers? college music majors? none of the above (please explain)?



I'm a euphonium performance major at UNT.

[yoopers]

I started my college career as a music major in piano and vocal performance. Then I decided I'd better be able to feed a family someday, so I switched majors.

[Cps10]

I am an active performer/student. Been playing flute (solo, orchestral, and Jazz work) for 8 years. Not a pro at all, but I am only 14 year old flutist that I know who has stuck with it for this long. :D

[SqueakyOnion]

Yoopers, I definitely share the concern you had. I'm also taking instrument repair classes (a very understaffed field) and will be picking up a minor (possibly a double major) next fall. I'd like to feed my family someday, too :D

[yoopers]

Yoopers, I definitely share the concern you had. I'm also taking instrument repair classes (a very understaffed field) and will be picking up a minor (possibly a double major) next fall. I'd like to feed my family someday, too :D
A friend many years ago graduated with a degree in piano. He then went on for his Masters degree in physics compliments of Steinway and eventually joined the company as a designer.

[munifreaker]

I'm an active musician

I can play Guitar, Bass, Drums (marching, AND kit), flute, and bits of other things, such as ukulele, mandolin, banjo, and lots of other things


however, not famous.....yet :D

[munifreaker]

oops, forgot to mention:

I am a PROFESSIONAL COWBELL PLAYER!! :D :D :D :D

[Joseppi]

I played orchestral violin for 16 years and then successfully integrated it into a progressive rock band.

[munifreaker]

I played orchestral violin for 16 years and then successfully integrated it into a progressive rock band.
like Jethro Tull but with Violin instead of flute?

[dan de man]

I played orchestral violin for 16 years and then successfully integrated it into a progressive rock band.
i love stuff like that rock bands and voilins = coolness

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

I'm in a few jazz bands. I play piano. I'll be going to college to study jazz piano in a few years.

[wobbling bear]

I am in a few brassbands: I play the fluegelhorn now (I played the euphonium then the cornet for years).
though I have been playing for nearly 40 years I cannot qualify as "serious" musician:
- I am never serious
- I dunno music at all ( I just play "by ear") -funnily I have been a bandmaster for 3 or 4 years-
- I can play awfully badly or well depending on my mood.

[Joe_sixpack]

I'm what you might call a professional musician. I play with a jazz/swing group that does dances all across the country. This past summer we ran up the east coast for a week playing shows/dances, then we flew out to L.A. California to play a dance at the Brown Derby.

I didn't used to be, music was a hobby that just turned into a job once the group really started getting booked hardcore. It's now a second job. So I had to pick up a new hobby, that hobby happened to be unicycling.

-Joe

www.neonswing.com

[Chexjc]

I'm not studying music or really performing it much, but I'd still consider myself a serious musician. I've been playing guitar for 8 years. I also play a number of other instruments including ukulele, drums, ocarina, didgeridoo, and the mouth trumpet :)

[Keldridge]

I am a hobbyist musician who is a semi-serious sound dude. I currently run sound for a local all ages venue (http://www.myspace.com/thewarehousenv) and have done sound for several churches and community events.

-Keld

[pedrotejada]

I worked 1 and a half years on a Luthier/Custom Guitar Shop reapairing guitars and amplifiers...
Now i stopped serious working because i'm training more and studing more :D

In this guitar shop i'm just finishing one guitar that i started to make 1 year ago... A modfied telecaster...

At the moment i'm making guitar pedals for personal use... But i'm planning to sell some pedals to my friends... But here in Brazil we don't have good suppliers...
Not "professional", but i like to work with music!

Best Regards!

[trumpetmonster]

I was a music ed (instrumental) major for a while, but I had to drop out of school to work. I had to learn all the woodwind and brass instruments. I am also an amateur composer as well. I just like to tinker around with instruments and I can usually figure out how to play them fairly quickly but by no means master anything. :o

[Jerrick]

like Jethro Tull but with Violin instead of flute?

Ha! If you can call Jethro a progressive band.

Anyways, 10 years of Viola. Always in the first or second chair. 5 years of guitar. Currently in aband called Odyssey.

I can play piano, banjo, ukulele, drums. Well, in short, basically anything I can play. I ahvent tried wind instruments yet, so those dont count, but everything I have ever gotten my hands onto, I have been able to make some pretty good songs.

Im going into college to get my degree in Audio Technology.

[munifreaker]

I worked 1 and a half years on a Luthier/Custom Guitar Shop reapairing guitars and amplifiers...
Now i stopped serious working because i'm training more and studing more :D

In this guitar shop i'm just finishing one guitar that i started to make 1 year ago... A modfied telecaster...

nice!!

i'm not that big on tele's, but ive gotten to play one that i'm very proud of

It WAS Jeff Beck's tele, but he gave it to seymour duncan...when i met Seymour, he let me play Beck's Tele! :D :D :D

[pedrotejada]

nice!!

i'm not that big on tele's, but ive gotten to play one that i'm very proud of

It WAS Jeff Beck's tele, but he gave it to seymour duncan...when i met Seymour, he let me play Beck's Tele! :D :D :D


WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Jeff Tele?!!? AMAZING!

I just played two guitars of famous guitar players:

When BB King came to Brazil, he used on the tour one Gibson Lucile, an at the end hi gave this guitar to a social project... And in the auction of the guitar to raise founds, i played it.

And I played Satriani guitar on a workshop with him here in Brazil... He's Cool... Very pacient and explanatory... I'm waiting he come's to Brazil again...!

I'm a tele lover... I really like them... I'm going to USA in next July (2008), and i'm planing to buy a Fender... here in Brazil they are VERY expensive... A good Fender... costs a little bit less than a popular car!

I just need to choice: A Fender or a KH!!!...
heheheh

Best Regards!

[Memphis Mud]

A friend many years ago graduated with a degree in piano. He then went on for his Masters degree in physics compliments of Steinway and eventually joined the company as a designer.

Along this line: My mother graduated in 1948 with a degree in piano. She retired a few years ago from a position as the Executive Director (the business side) of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Things take you where they take you. If you're intellegent and enthusiastic and interested, you'll find a good path.

PS I'm a hobbyist guitarist. I played twice on stage, each time with a partner (once with a player once with a singer). Both were 20+ years ago. Won both competitions. Got $25 for one and free beer for the other. Retired undefeated.

[Mikefule]

I have played harmonica for about 30 years. I play in the first position, mainly folk music either for Morris dancing or for performance in folk clubs.

I can knock a tune out of a 2 row melodeon, and I also own a 1 row, which is a very different beast to play. More fun, but harder.

My main musical effort these days goes into the Anglo concertina. I have a G/D 30 key Marcus. Again, the emphasis is on Morris music and folk, and I play in the English style with chorded accompaniment.

I also sing traditional (mainly English) folk song and perform in pub sessions and at folk clubs. I write a few of my own songs too.

I can just about get a simple tune out of a trumpet, and I used to play drums/percussion in a ceilidh band. I failed miserably at guitar.