Group/session/live bassist of over 30+ years as well as having been a studio songwriter that’s worked with orchestras.

I can play quite a few. High proficiency at saxophone and clarinet. But i can pick up almost anything and do something with it. I can play a lot of stuff by ear, so lock me in a room for a day with almost any instrument I’d have a decent ability with it and a few songs for you.

That’s one of those things I’d do if I won the lotto, buy as many instruments as I could and build a music room, and recording studio, invite local bands and kids to record there for free.

I’m a serious skin flutist. I play mine like a seasoned master of the highest order.

Modular synths for me. I built a “Synthcase” out of an old antique suitcase in 2025. Now I’m learning to tease signal from noise.

I used to play viola from 5th grade until 12th. Not gonna say I was first row material, but I wasn’t terrible either. Stopped a few years later because I lost the instrument in a move and didn’t get another because I had kinda lost interest after losing mine.

I also bought an acoustic guitar last spring but so far I haven’t gotten far with it. It’s definitely a lot harder than viola, IMO. And a lot more painful on my fret/string/whatever holding down hand.

Vocal Chords: Expert

Ocarina: Pretty good.

Harmonica: Decent.

Piano: Amateur.

Guitar: I can pluck strings and make it go “twang!”

Honorable mention to the mouth harp; I am not sure how you can be good or bad at it.

Guitar. I played as a teenager, but wasn’t very good, and quit around 20. I loved music, though, and got a degree in Music History, and then had a first career in the classical/Jazz record biz.

40 years after quitting the guitar, I took it up again during Covid. during Covid, but seriously this time. When I was a kid, I was struggling with learning it myself, even though I had good musical aptitude. Guitar is a hard instrument.

But after having learned the basics decades ago, a solid education in Music Theory, lots of experience in the music world with professional musicians, and a LOT of YouTube videos, I took to it pretty fast. I’m playing electric lead stuff and acoustic finger picking, and I’m now at a solid intermediate level, and having a blast.

YouTube was the main difference between self-learning now, and in the past. The best teachers in the world are on YouTube, and it’s basically all free.

My only regret is having quit in the first place, and losing 40 years of progress.

I’m good enough at guitar to do it professionally. Not my only job but part of my income is playing as a hired gun for local acts and artists touring the region. I play mostly country, a lot of chicken-pickin, bending style telecaster stuff. Been at it over 25 years.

Vocal Cords, expert

Woodwinds: (Flute, Bass Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Saxophone, Bari-Sax, Pan Pipes) Journeyman to Expert

Strings: (Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass) Journeyman

Brass: (Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Tuba, Sousaphone, Cornet, Bugle) Apprentice to Journeyman

Percussion: Apprentice

Piano: Beginner, though I took lessons when I was 3-6, and I can sit and make it sound good, just can’t play sheet music with one.

Guitar: Bass and Rhythm guitar: Apprentice. Can’t do lead, chords mess with my fingers.

I’ve been playing instruments and singing my whole life.

Oh, technically I can play a recorder, but I hate that thing.

I can also “play” a didgeridoo, as in get consistent sound out of the thing. If there is more of a mastery than that, I don’t know.

I’ve played various instruments over the years, but guitar is the only one I still pick up sometimes. I am basically an advanced beginner.

Meanwhile, I have recently taken up the recorder, tin whistle, and ocarina. I’m very much a beginner, but having a blast. My wife and a friend are also learning. We’re working on various baroque and early classical pieces.

I’m decent at mayonnaise.

Cornet and Trumpet. I can play fairly advanced stuff but I don’t have the embouchure and can only keep it up for a few minutes.

Guitar: strumming and some finger picking. Took this up again during covid as I wanted to sing and play, which I can do now.

Piano: also from COVID. Slowly working through Alfreds but it’s fun so I don’t mind.

i have a xaphoon

I can play some Zelda songs on the piano, not very well, but I enjoy it

I play every instrument but very badly