<p>Wife’s long-awaited Cameron flute arrived and is a definite keeper. Son added a cajon and a loop station to his growing collection and has turned into a veritable one-man band using those with guitar and vocals. He also started fooling around with our conga drums over the winter break. At least he has forgotten about the bandoneon, which I am starting to think is actually a cryptographic device designed to look like a musical instrument. Daughter has been studying hand percussion and is getting set to order a riq, hadjira or something along those lines.</p>
<p>my old thread resurrected!
It IS fun to hear everyone’s version of this common situation!</p>
<p>DH has finally agreed that one of his two string basses can be put up for adoption.
Now, we just have to find that family…</p>
<p>DS is hoping to attend grad school in the fall and will take some (all?) of his instruments.
At least the two large tubas. My fingers are crossed.</p>
<p>Happy New Year to all and best wishes for those awaiting decisions.</p>
<p>Let’s see, a couple of flutes, a piccolo, two violins, I think the oboe is under my son’s bed…keyboards of various sizes and a piano- those fit, but it’s the MUSIC that is taking over our house!! It’s everywhere, from the basement to the attic, in storage tubs, tote bags, cartons, backpacks…sheet music, opera scores, songs from every show that has ever played on Broadway, folk songs, discards of books of folk songs from school libraries, all of my violin and viola music from, well, let’s just say “decades” ,ago…I swear the pieces are multiplying when my back is turned!!</p>
<p>Lot’s of newbies, new names, and plenty of lurkers since the last time this was bumped.</p>
<p>Admissions are over, decisions are made. Plenty of happy campers, and even those a bit disappointed may wish to kick back, take a deep breath, pour a glass and add to the list.</p>
<p>Take some stress free time before figgering out how you’re gonna pay for it. :D</p>
<p>pay? stress-free???</p>
<p>^ It’s all about what’s in the glass. And how many. I didn’t say it was it was a permanent solution.</p>
<p>Wife had a brief trip to the Yucatan a couple of months back and came home with a pair of Mayan clay flutes that are, how shall we put this, rather accurate in an anthropomorphic sense.</p>
<p>Our son has a xaphoon now. It’s kind of a toy saxophone, but with a real reed. His sax playing friends enjoy it! There is a photo in the NEC brochures of a student on the stage of Jordan Hall playing a toy piano in concert. I would love to get one just to see what my musicians at home would do with it!</p>
<p>Wow some people have ridiculous numbers of instruments! I thought we had a lot.
2 alto saxophones
2 clarinets
1 drum set
1 pair of bongos
1 pair of congos
Xylophone
Grand piano
Electric keyboard
Soprano saxophone
2 recorders
1 Trumpet
All the auxilary percussion you can imagine</p>
<p>A fairly pedestrian collection here – three violins, two violas, one guitar, one mandolin, piano, pump organ, clarinet, bunch of recorders and ocarinas. </p>
<p>And, an accordion which is not ours but which insinuated itself into the household last fall during a period when D’s chamber group was playing tangos. D brought it home balanced on her Razor scooter. I think it belongs to her violin teacher, but teacher is not banging on the door to get it back, I notice.</p>
<p>BassDad, since you’ve failed to expound on the specific attributes of the flutes in question, one can only assume that a more detailed descriptive analysis is beyond the normal bounds of decorum within this forum.</p>
<p>A pity.</p>
<p>Admittedly, my D is a singer, but I did not know that flutes came in pairs.</p>
<ol>
<li>upright piano </li>
<li>electric Keyboard</li>
<li>analog modeling synthesizer</li>
<li>green clarinet</li>
<li>3/4 upright bass and bow</li>
<li>short scale electric bass (vintage)</li>
<li>full scale electric bass</li>
<li>drum set (vintage)</li>
<li>classical guitar (vintage)</li>
<li>steel string acoustic guitar (om size)</li>
<li>2 hollow body electric guitars (vintage)</li>
<li>solid body electric guitar</li>
<li>6 solid body electric guitars (vintage)</li>
<li>stereo keyboard amp</li>
<li>bass combo amp</li>
<li>bass head with 2 speaker cabs</li>
<li>guitar amp</li>
<li>guitar amp (vintage)</li>
<li>guitar hero</li>
<li>melodica</li>
<li>harmonica</li>
</ol>
<p>For the flute lovers out there, in addition to a couple of standards (an ancient Armstrong, and a Pearl), I have 1 pvc Irish flute (really!), and 2 Irish glass flutes. I picked them up at a Harp festival, because we have a 36 string Celtic Harp, a midsized harp with a back strap, and a never completely assembled lap harp. Add 2 violins, various recorders, a 12 string guitar, and electric guitar and a spinet all cozily nestled into a small Craftsman style house.<br>
But Mezzo’sMama - I’m with you on the music. Sheet music and books for all the aforementioned instruments, plus tons of choral music, mine and both daughters, MT show books, feels like half the Schirmer library of instruction books. And then there are the CD’s - now my husband joins the mix. Between Pets and Music, there’s not room for much else!</p>
<p>I wondered if Bassdad’s wife was going to go into business, selling little baby flutes.</p>
<p>AsterMom - Watch that accordian closely. Scary things can happen.</p>
<p>No, she wouldn’t do that because I know she would never be able to part with the little ones. Violadad is right, a more complete description of her newest acquisitions would violate the terms of service of this board.</p>
<p>Two violins, three bows.</p>
<p>Are we listing instruments…</p>
<p>1 Five trumpets
1 English Horn
1 Oboe
2 guitars
1 nice console piano
1 ukulele (that needs to be fixed)
A bunch of different size recorders
Fife
bongos (no kidding)</p>
<p>And LOTS of insurance:)</p>
<p>spinet piano
several keyboards
some fancy schmancy synthesiser(sp?) thing
3 electric guitars
6 accoustic guitars
large variety of amps and pedals
mandolin
banjo
autoharp
glockenschpiel (sp?)
lots of drums/cymbals
lots of small percusion instruments
And of course sheet music, sheet music and sheet music</p>
<p>I’ll play!!</p>
<p>1 grand piano
1 spinet
1 digital keyboard-88 keys
1 smaller keyboard, for midi usage
2 drumsets
2 djembes
1 cello
2 guitars, one steel string, one nylon
2 amps
1 electric bass
1 flute
1 old sax
an instrument you blow into that has keys that looks like a kid’s toy piano (I am having a brain freeze on the name of that one at the moment)!</p>