h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One of my mandolins is one I made myself when I was 16 or 17. It's quite good.

Not a great deal, but I use what I have.

LAG six string accoustic, which sounds so sweet you'd expect a far bigger price tag.

Starlight Flying Vee Electric six string - it's actually not at all bad. But i am very puir.

Two cheapo Argos junior six string accoustics for the children i have who actually have an interest

A clarinet

Several recorders

A set of bamboo pan-pipes that all barr one of the whole household cannot play to save their lives.

I have a beautiful rosewood upright piano at my brothers house because I can't house it. It belonged to my grandfather, who left a fag burn on the top F. One day, when someone moves out, I'll bring it home.

A Gibson 12 string acoustic guitar
A Yamaha 6 string acoustic guitar
A black baby grand piano
A ukelele
A violin
A set of bongos
Four pairs of castanets
A French Horn (*shrugs* don't know why I have it... but it looks nice in my library)

some Glockenspiels from when the Gruesomes did Early Music & Movement (pre-school)

A tambourine

several recorders of various types

a guitar (non electric) and one day I'll be able to play more than 2 chords and 3 tunes

Steinway upright piano
Acoustic guitars
Castanets
Electic guitars
Bells
Coin ankle chains
Flute

Will update if I see any more lying around

Piano (permanently just slightly out of tune)
Clarinet
Spanish guitar
Ukulele
3 recorders (1 wooden and 2 plastic <shudder&gt
tin whistles
Djembe
Nose flute
various percussion (triangles, maracas etc.)

...and a brother who does music at uni so has lots of instruments periodically housed here - but that doesn't count really

1. Yamaha electro acoustic 6-string guitar.
2. Yamaha electric six string.
3. Washburn six string electric.
4. Honer electric bass guitar,
5. very old awful six string acoustic.
6. very old cheap electric six string.
7. Half built electric bass guitar made up of bits from three busted bass guitars
8. Fender strat six string (currnly on loan to my brother).
9. Fender strat (lodgers guitar).
10. Fender telecaster (lodgers guitar).
11. Nylon strung Spanish/classical guitar (on loan from lodgers friend).
12. Nice new nylon strung Classical/Spanish guitar (lodgers new guitar).
13. Hand built six string acoustic (lodgers )
14. A box with enough bits to not quite make a whole six string electric 15. Casio crappy keyboard thing
16. Alesis SR16 drum machine.
17. Descant recorder (no idea where it is but its in the house somewhaere).
Thats about it for the next couple of weeks till we get some new guitars on loan including a Martain acoustic

Just found my coin belt

3 electric guitars - Gibson Explorer, Ibanez Destroyer (yeah I know, I happen to like the shape), Yamaha SG
acoustic steel string
acoustic nylon string
piano
keyboard
violin
little violin (sprog's)
Bolivian charango, various tin whistles, recorders, harmonicas and other paraphernalia that none of us can actually play

3 electric guitars: Jackson King V, Fender Jag-Stang, Ibanez Somethingorother.
1 acostic guitar: Tanglewood 12-string.
1 kazoo.
1 recorder.

I bet if the question was "What Musical Instruments do you play?" the answers would be quite different.

With you on that one. The Didge is still in Bubble wrap, from when I bought it back from Australia 6 years ago Well, it is in Dflat

But the violins do all get played on many occassions.

The D'dingas are only used at festivals.

Owned/In the house:

A ridiculously large Tama Superstar Drumkit with Sabian AAX Cymbals and DW Double Bass pedal
Arbiter Flats drumkit with some odd cymbals knocking about
Ibanez Iceman 6 string electric guitar
Line 6 amp with lots of knobs, twiddly bits and pedals
Washburn 6 string electric and mini-amp for same
An ancient cheap & nasty Fender copy 6 string guitar with a suitably nasty 10W practice amp
A battery powered guitar amp for busking
Kemble upright piano
Yamaha DJX Keyboard
A couple of trashed acoustic guitars
An ancient piano accordian in need of love and attention (or hard cash spending on it)
An African Drum
A tin whistle
Kazoos
Vocal chords (Various)


That I play:

Naff all ...its the kids innit

I'm sure they'd let you have a go!

if the question was what do i actually play my answer would be exactly the same

im the musical one

Can't get anywhere close to Gnomon's orchestra... but...


Violin (hasn't been played in years)
Various recorders (descant, treble and bass)
Various ancient synthesizers:
Korg Trident, Roland Juno, Yamaha CS-10, Oberheim OBX-a...
Various 'black boxes' (midi-controlled synthesizers etc.)
A yamaha home keyboard (with two dodgy keys - used as a midi controller)
A very old 386-25 PC running DOS - used as a sequencer to control all the midi bits-and-pieces.
A plastic electronic kid's saxophone made in the 1980s by Casio - which you'd think was absolutely ridiculous as a serious instrument - but the guys who designed it for Casio had the brainwave of sticking a Midi-out port on it - making it by-far the cheapest midi wind controller on the market!

I've got a clarinet at home.

I got to grade 5 in music and did my GCSE music with it too.



Actually, it isn't really *my* clarinet. It belongs to VC, but I stole it from her

Actually I tend to play most of the instruments a fair bit, with the exception of teh Casio keyboard (which strictly speaking by my definition ain't an instrument anyhow ) and the ancient recorder which is a left over from when I was at primary school though I could actually just about get a tune out of it still last time I tried when it turned up in my hand from a bottom drawer in the bedroom But most often played are the yamaha acoustic and electric lodgers fender strat and telecaster, the new spanish and the hand made steel strung acoustic of lodgers, plus the yamaha electro-acoustic and my bass guitar and the drum machine are all used weekly I'd say if not daily *presses button on teh drum machine on the desk to make drum noise to prove point)

12 piece Sonor Custom Force 3003 drum kit

9 piece Premier Series drum kit

Roto 6", 8", 10" shell less toms

8,10,12,13,14,15" chrome plated Sonor Timbales

Temple blocks 5 piece

Cow bells 5", 7"

Latino congas 10", 11", 12"

Traps 5 piece shell less kit

3 double bass drum pedals

Zildjian Cymbals all sizes, untold

Paiste cymbals all sizes, untold

Yamaha DD55 drum machine

Spare toms, snares and bass drums

Drum sticks, millions of them

A 2 string electric guitar Argos special

Acoustic guitar 4 string

Gibson SG, bought it ages ago cause of a certain guitarist and it hangs on my wall signed by that certain guitarist

A pair of drum sticks, signed by a certain drummer

Yamaha keyboard with drum pads

A drummer posting on a Musical Instrument thread!!!

We're doomed!