Music!

[ink_n_imp]

I've been filled recently with the burning desire to take up a musical instrument again. I was never really good, but it was enjoyable after I LONG SINCE gave up on learning to play an instrument so I could avoid being forced into recitals/NYSSMA and tortured over them (CURSE YOU NYSSMA! *SHAKES FIST!*). But as my piano is at my parents, and it is UNLIKELY I'll ever have an apartment in the near/distant future where I could HAVE my piano on hand, I think I want to take up something cheaper/more transportable

I have the strongest desire to take up...the ukulele.

(Or the violin, but I blame the murder mystery party for that.)

((Or even the accordion, but that would only make those who know me who can PLAY the accordian laugh and laugh and laugh and--))

If I'm really honest with myself, picking up a new instrument to learn would only make my life a Jeeves and Wooster tale; except that I'm a Bertie without a Jeeves, so I'm already forced to control my sudden bouts of bad-judgement, lest disaster strikes.

(Still would like to take up the ukulele though.)

Comments

[wheres-walnut.livejournal.com]

DO IT. THEN WE CAN JAM.

AND NOT IN A PB AND J SORT OF WAY.

[sirenofaverne.livejournal.com]

Ukelele's are nice and small...

[jack-post-jill.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? Accordions are freaking awesome.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

It's pretty hard to fuck up on a ukelele, no lie. I would suggest a woodland flute. The pentatonic scale means you'll never really hit a wrong note.

[gaslightgallows]

"picking up a new instrument to learn would only make my life a Jeeves and Wooster tale..."

*Especially* if you took up ukelele.

I can't really cast stones here, though. I've been wanting to learn bouzouki for years.

[dispergo.livejournal.com]

Ukuleles are awesome! A friend of mine took it up a year or so ago, and loves it a lot. :D She even used it when she played Feste in our school's production of Twelfth Night--it was incredible!
I've had my eye on the melodica for a while. It's so gloriously strange.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

Oh NYSSMA. I actually did that voluntarily my senior year, just for the satisfaction of it.

[buhhhfaluffalo.livejournal.com]

NYSSMA...thanks for bringing back terrible terrible memories D:>

My best friend plays the uke, it is quite an awesome little instrument, and I totes recommend it. BUT ACCORDION IS AWESOME TOO.