<p>Oh…I forgot about the MUSIC…we have filing cabinets full of that. AND don’t forget the concert programs! I have everyone of them. DS made fun of me once…until he needed to list ALL of his ensemble repertoire and <em>I</em> had it all at my fingertips. I should have charged him to look!!</p>
<p>That would be a melodica. The cheap ones are toys but the better ones have some really beautiful tones. My S, a serious jazz pianist, keeps one in his room in case a phrase comes to mind.</p>
<p>Where we don’t stand out in this crowd:
1 piano (upright)
1 marimba
1 xylophone
1 fancy schmancy snare drum
1 drumset with extras
1 starter drumset
1 electric keyboard (Sharper Image; nothing fancy)
percussion doodads – triangles, tambourine, etc., zillions of sticks and mallets
1 flute
1 piccolo
1 alto sax
1 trumpet
2 acoustic guitars
several recorders and harmonicas</p>
<p>Where we might stand out: 20 or so brightly colored wooden xylophone toddler toys left over from S’s bar mitzvah, where they served as centerpieces anchoring balloon arrangements!</p>
<p>Oh…I forgot the Boom Whackers!! They are the MOST FUN of any of the musical “stuff” we own.</p>
<p>Okay. I may regret this… But, what are Boom Whackers?</p>
<p>Boom Whackers are plastic tubes of varying lengths (and colors). We have a two octave set…so much fun. You “whack” them someplace to make the sound (note)…usually on your head. They are great fun at a party. I guess the best way to describe them is tubes that are like a xylophone separated…does that make sense. We’ve had tons of fun playing songs. Each person gets one or two to “whack”. It’s a challenge to keep track of “your” notes…just like playing in a handbell choir (ok…so they are not as swanky as handbells).</p>
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<p>1 Piano
1 Tenor Sax
2 Euphoniums
1 Acoustic Guitar
2 Flutes
1 Piccolo
1 Trumpet
1 Alto Trombone
1 Bass trombone
1 French Horn
3 Recorders
2 Wood Flutes</p>
<p>My son also puts together PVC pipes to form vaiations of brass instruments. Some actually sound pretty good, some are hilarious.</p>
<p>Allmusic, that funny instrument is a melodica! My brother had one in the 1960’s when he was a hippie!!</p>
<p>We have a zillion guitars, with four guitar-playing members of the family:</p>
<p>Acoustic: Martin and Ovation
Electric: Gibson, Ibanez, Strat and others I can’t name!
Acoustic Bass guitar
also,
grand piano
electric keyboard
multiple djembes and other African drums,
cojone
timbales
congas</p>
<p>As I go through this list I am getting misty-eyed about all the Christmas presents and birthday gifts and ensembles the kids played with in high school…!</p>
<p>I remember those boom wacker things we had a set - I wonder what ever happened to them!</p>
<p>Ok, we start with one Steinway upright, an Allen organ with full AGO pedal board, two flutes, one oboe, one english horn, a french horn, a steel pan (tenor), 4 dulcimers, a lap harp and a celtic harp, 4 or 5 penny whistles and recorders, , a congo and a mini kid’s drum, one acoustic guitar, a bowed psaltry, lots of toddler instruments and several boomwhackers (tho some of these ended up in kid’s constructions and marble runs over the years. . .)</p>
<p>We don’t have a living room. We have the music room. </p>
<p>Yup people look at us like we are strange.</p>
<p>1 trumpet
2 bugles
1 cornet
1 trombone, broken
1 baritone horn
1 ukelele
2 acoustic guitars
1 electric bass guitar
1 violin
2 cellos (celli?)
1 piano</p>
<p>and a partridge in a pear tree. [really a noisy parakeet in a cage]</p>
<p>suzukimom–</p>
<p>our living room was a music room for years until our son went off to music school. without his instrument and music all over the piano, it seems rather staid and boring now. we actually don’t use it much at all when he’s not home.</p>
<p>String, I know what you mean about the “staid and boring”. My oldest son, the one with all of the guitars and really most of the instruments, is home for a few months and will be gone in September. So I am enjoying the house full of music again. My other son, who is a vocalist and who is the primary user of the piano will be home for only a month this summer, then it will be “staid and boring” again. I think that when the parents of musicians experience the empty nest syndrome it has a whole other demention.</p>
<p>Without a doubt, the silence can be maddening. ; )</p>
<p>(Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)</p>
<p>Such are the dimensions of dementia.</p>
<p>SRW, RunningtheBasses, and BassDad. Apologizing in advance (I never met a pun or typo I didn’t like) – a “demention” is actually the undoing of a mention and has little to do with dimension or dementia.</p>
<p>I personally have a clarinet, an alto saxophone, a soprano saxophone (yes, I got it cheap and it’s mostly novelty value), a guitar, a decent electric keyboard, and, on “indefinite loan” from my mother, a flute and possibly a trumpet (yet to actually confirm that one). </p>
<p>Also living in my house: a lap harp, a trombone, another flute and trumpet, two more clarinets and some pieces, a couple of other keyboards, and an organ.</p>
<p>I will never quite forgive my mother for giving away the upright we used to own… Although it wasn’t in complete working order (I was trying to fix it; what can I hurt, right?)… and I wasn’t there to help move it… and I really don’t know where it would fit in this house… Maybe I see her point…</p>
<p>Been almost a year since this one was brought up. Seems to provide a little diversion during stress filled times. </p>
<p>So, if any newbies want to reveal their stash, go right ahead. And I’m sure some oldtimers have new additions.</p>
<p>Hm let’s see- currently 3 violins with bows, 2 guitars (one acoustic, one electric), and a keyboard. May be inheriting an upright piano soon though; my grandpa has been trying to give it to me for a while so I can finally learn piano, but my mom insists we don’t have enough room ;)</p>