What's you favorite instrument?

Question

Everybody's pretty inactive right now, so I decided to try to entertain those who are. It's just kinda a fun little thing, for y'all to talk about.

Have fun!

(If y'all run out of instruments or something, try asking echother your favorite instruments or try to find the most exotic instrument (bet y'all have never heard of the calliope))

Answer 1

I tried my hand at piano and cello. I like the look of the cello and think it sounds really good... except for when I play it. The cello isn't too high like a violin, and not too low like a bass. Piano is great because it has incredible range and sounds fantastic.

Comments

Pianooooo!

High-five :D

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Hey, as a cello player, I can tell you that harmonics (and just generally playing at a higher register) on cello can be really high, and you even play treble clef at a certain level. But yeah, it doesn't go that low, at least it's not a viola.

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The piano has 7 octaves, but the cello can go up to 6 octaves.

Answer 2

Violin or flute! I play flute myself :)

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Cool, my mom plays flute and piccolo too. The flute sounds really good.

Answer 3

My favorite instrument would probably be either the piano or my voice. My voice is the only instrument out of those two that I really know how to use x3

-Nobi

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Great! What do you sing? (For example: I sing baritone)

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I didn't see this x3

I find it sorta difficult to sing really high, so I'm definitely not a soprano. It's easier but not extremely easy for me to go low, but I can't remember the female equivalent to a low voice type :[

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I think I talk a soprano. I know my voice is high-pitched.

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Do you sing a soprano?

For instance, if you know Mariah Carey, she sings soprano. She can go, like, reeaaaaally high.

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I’m pretty sure I sing a soprano.

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Ah, okay. Coolio!

Not many people can do that :)

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Nobi, I think the middle for a female might be either alto or mezzo-soprano.

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Ah, yeah I thought so. So I'm an alto that can go to sorta deep ranges (for a female, that is)

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Ok, cool.

Answer 4

Physical instruments? I would say maybe a piano or electric guitar.

Comments

Any instruments, even voice or something.

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Oh. Then my voice.

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That's awesome! What do you sing?

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Whatever I want to sing. Earlier today I tried to sing “Creeper, Aw Man”. I sang most of it. (I had a bit trouble with the rap part though)

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Oh, well I sing baritone, although I don't have the range as a standard baritone because I haven't exercised my voice in a while.

I can't rap either though, my mouth just doesn't want to move that fast.

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I sang it again and I sang it near perfectly. I got all of TryHardNinja’s vocals (the main song) and most of CaptainSparklez’s vocals (the rap).

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Cool, that's cool.

Answer 5

Piano.

I'm very good at it.

Ever heard a song called River Flows In You?

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Yea, I've heard that one.

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I can play it flawlessly just like the composer

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Have you played some more famous ones like Clair de Lune, Moonlight sonata 1st or 3rd mov. Maybe Liszt's (completely overused) La Campanella?

I have a challenge for you, try playing Stanchinsky's piano sonata in E-flat minor, I think I would be a bit difficult to play because of how it incorporates polyrythm (although that may have been present in "The River Flows in you").

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Maybe even more difficult, have you played Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 (the Hamelin cadenza optional of course)?

There's a great recording of Hamelin himself playing it on YouTube, you should really check it out.

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Ok i'll try the challenge then report back to you.

I have played moonlight sonata 3rd movement.

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Speaking of that, Joe, my fingers span from 13-14 keys :D

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Cool, Ive tried playing that piece, but I couldn't. Good luck!

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Wow, that's quite the range, how difficult are octaves for you?

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Assuming you're talking about how difficult it is to span my fingers that long, it isn't really that hard. I felt a sort of strain when I tried to go to the 14th white key, but I had less strain when I just moved my thumb to the black key, probably because it was a little closer to the 13th white key than the 14th white key. So I rounded it to 14, because I included all the black keys and though I'd include that one too 

(I hope that's what you were asking and I don't just sound like a noon because I didn't understand the question x3)

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So, this is an octave.The distance between any two notes of that distance is an octave (and there are 13 total notes in an octave)

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This is also an octave. 

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It's easier to understand if I say that an octave is 8 white keys.

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So what you're saying is that if I want to do an octave, I just make sure there is 6 white keys in between the two (white) keys that I have my fingers on?

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Yes, absolutely. And the reason that the octave is so standardized is because an octave is exactly double another notes frequency. It is used very commonly in music because the same note but just in two forms sounds good. (And also, there are actually 12 notes in an octave and the octave note isn't actually counted)

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I think my vocal range is 3 octaves.

You guys?

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I don't know, I haven't exercised my vocal cords In a while, I'll get back to you though.

Answer 6

the nyckelharpa. Its a Swedish instrument

Comments

Oh, that's really cool.

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Wow, I've just looked it up, it's really cool, the way they incorporate those extra strings, violin makers should take note. And the sheer genius it must've taken to make this in the 1300's, that's crazy!

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ik its very noice

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Yis