What instrument would you choose if you had to start over?

Tubaguyjoe · Post by **Tubaguyjoe** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:31 am

Horn for SURE.

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:16 am

Serpent. Not enough serpent players to go around. Chicks really dig hard rock serpent players too .

BriceT · Post by **BriceT** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:31 am

I would definitely play the french horn. I love its sound.

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:39 am

Basoon. That is if I could find a way to afford one. I sat behind a Heckle section last month realizing that there were $100,000 worth of Bassoons in those three chairs. Least amount of volume for the buck, but I love the sound. However, it is a kick knowing that with a $2000 Bass Trombone I can completely obliterate all those greenbacks, and all the high dollar strings as well. Maybe I'd better just dance with what brung me. Chainsaw forever!

J Stowe · Post by **J Stowe** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:25 am

I would have learned piano. Girls love piano (although not as much as serpent, even though that may have been a euphemism.)

WoodSheddin · Post by **WoodSheddin** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:55 am

Piano or Violin from the aspect that these instruments can always make money.

I played a good bit of trombone in High School and sometimes wish that had been my primary instrument.

NDSPTuba · Post by **NDSPTuba** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:56 am

I am living this very scenerio. Dystonia ended my Horn playing career, and I've chosen Tuba to start all over with.

Jeffrey Hicks · Post by **Jeffrey Hicks** » Tue May 13, 2008 9:42 am

Saxophone. which is ironic considering what i have written below.

TUBAD83 · Post by **TUBAD83** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:01 am

I would go back to my "first love"--trumpet

dfear · Post by **dfear** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:25 am

My first wind choice would be Horn. I was fortunate enough to go to the International Horn Symposium in 1997 hosted by Eastman School of Music. I played 8th part in a massive horn choir! Really cool.

After adding string orchestra to my teaching resume, my first choice string instrument would be cello.

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:37 am

Cello, then horn, then drums.

GC · Post by GC » Tue May 13, 2008 10:48 am

Viola, since it gets so much more respect than tuba.

Actually, oboe. I just like the sound (plus the teeny cases and the fact that it takes so little air).

chipster55 · Post by **chipster55** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:59 am

1st choice: bari sax - 'cause I love the sound & would play more jazz

2nd choice: banjo - to learn to play bluegrass

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:07 am

I wouldn't be a musician at all, I'd be a Music Director...

(then I wouldn't even have to learn the music!)

kctubadude · Post by **kctubadude** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:14 am

Anything but the Euphonium.

J.c. Sherman · Post by **J.c. Sherman** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:46 am

I've had the priveledge of playing a hell of a lot of instruments, most for money.

But if I had it to do again, I wouldn't have let peer preasure push me off of flute. I still have three (one old style) and play for my own enjoyment. But my time investment was cut a lot by the abuse I suffered from peers for playing flute. I switched to "baritone" because I begged the band director for "anything else". The rest is history...

Rampal is still my idol, though.

J.c.S.

Todd S. Malicoate · Post by **Todd S. Malicoate** » Tue May 13, 2008 11:52 am

In all seriousness, I would pick the tuba again...but I would have started playing it much earlier than I did.

However, since the elephant already said your current instrument was not an option...I would have picked percussion. I dig the competitive drumline-only, DCI-based stuff going on right now. Looks like a lot of fun!

ai698 · Post by **ai698** » Tue May 13, 2008 12:11 pm

What I really wanted to play when I started in band in 1974, french horn. "You don't pick tuba, it picks you."

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue May 13, 2008 12:20 pm

Bass trombone, for sure. I think I'd always have to play something "noticeable," rather than be a section instrument like a violin.

pierso20 · Post by **pierso20** » Tue May 13, 2008 12:21 pm

Actually I would have done one of 2 things.

1) I would have played the French Horn...great sound.

2) I would have started on the tuba in 6th grade and took lessons immediately.

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