Endangered Instruments!

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xxbeckyjohnsonxx

how times change - was that with Rob Roscoe?
now BYO is, well you should have passed grade 8 but anywhere from grade 6 will do :eek:

Noooooooooo?!?!!?!?!
I heard from someone that BYC had taken a turn for a worse but I didn't know the rot had spread into orchestras too!! (Although the way West Berks was going when I left it doesn't surprise me...)
Yes, that was with Rob Roscoe.

Reply 41

michaelyus

TomInce6666

Endangered - lol. Try the harpsichord

Harpsichord FTW!

I've never played the harpsichord :sigh:

, but I have been into the factory of London's largest harpsichord makers. Would love to have a go.

Reply 42

ukebert

Endangered instruments eh?

I play:

Melodeon
Timple
Charango
Flageolet
C Melody Saxophone

:wink:

Reply 43

beautifulbigmacs

recorder

i only took grade one last but i've been playing a fair bit since then lol

i dont know if its been mentioned yet but just while its ath the front of my mind, i think theres extra funding for instruments if theyre endangered when you play them at conservatoire level....don't quote me on this but im sure i read it some where

Reply 44

Wanderlust

ukebert

Endangered instruments eh?

I play:

Melodeon
Timple
Charango
Flageolet
C Melody Saxophone

:wink:

Good job.

Reply 45

Savage1707

I play the oboe, just taken grade 7, and i have player cor anglais "english horn" in a few concerts

Reply 46

Zosie

I wouldn't say violins are that endangered, but the other string instruments are. In my school String Group we have 8 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello and no double basses. I'm the cellist. I haven't had lessons in two years, I only play in the group because if I didn't they'd lose an entire section.

Reply 47

Waiting2BeDiscovered

recorder (hardly anyone takes you seriously when you say that)...flute's my first instrument though, common as muck.

I think Crumhorn comes under endangered! I'm not very good at it, but I can sort of play.

Reply 48

Losh!

...No other horn players? :frown:

... I feel so lonely...

Reply 49

teletext45

I play the classical mandolin, i'm finding good music ever so hard to get , i have to purchase from places like germany, france and italy.
Most mandolin players tend to go downt he folk route but the classical route seems to come second best.

Andrew

Reply 50

Serendipity ♥

Wow.

This is such a cute thread - endangered instruments :love:

The clarinet is very much not endangered though. Theres rather alot of us, which is nice, plenty of people to ask when things go wrong.

I would love to play something really unusual though.
I

Reply 51

Klezmatic

ukebert

Endangered instruments eh?

I play:

Melodeon
Timple
Charango
Flageolet
C Melody Saxophone

:wink:

I've come across quite a few melodeon players, but I haven't even heard of the other four. I take my hat off to you. :hat2:

Reply 52

ukebert

Klezmatic

I've come across quite a few melodeon players, but I haven't even heard of the other four. I take my hat off to you. :hat2:

Thanks

The lıst ıs soon to ınclude Brıtısh Chromatıc Accordıon and chromatıc harmonıca ıf I can get the hang of them :p:

Reply 53

foolsihboy

Bassoon player here :thumbsup:

. Legend of an instrument to play :biggrin:

. Doing my grade 8 in the winter...
(I would class it as my 3rd instrument after clarinet and saxophone).

Bloody hard work to play though, thumb-wise

Reply 54

placenta medicae talpae

Anyone play the banjo?
Or the ukelele? :p:

Reply 55

ukebert

placenta medicae talpae

Anyone play the banjo?
Or the ukelele? :p:

I play uke :biggrin:

Reply 56

placenta medicae talpae

ukebert

I play uke :biggrin:

Wow - high five! :smile:

Reply 57

Prince Rhyus

Porscha!

Who else plays an Endangered Instrument?

Can be defined as -
Oboe,
Bassoon,
Trombone,
Tuba,
Viola,
Double Bass

Do you like playing an endangered instrument and how may others be encouraged to play one?

I play viola and love playing it, being a clarinettist it is very nice to actually be in demand and the myth about string instruments being very hard to learn is not necessarily true! As for getting more people to play endangered I think there should be more specialists in school (esp. Primary) to at least advise on instrumental lessons, even though a lot of these instruments are too big to be took up at a very young age it will create an awareness.

I'm a viola-ismist :smile:

The big problems I see are as follows:

1) Cost of instruments - many of them are not cheap, hence will be out of the price range of lots of people

2) Cost of tuition - music lessons aren't cheap

3) The "mindset" of playing a musical instrument to pass exams - often imposed by parents but supported by the exam boards as it's how they make their money. How many of you used to play a musical instrument but stopped because you didn't enjoy it or got sick of the exams? (Actually - we should ask this in the general forum...)

4) Some of the snobbery associated with the "classical music establishment" - especially when pop and classical clash.

5) The various qualifications needed to teach music - and the limitations that result from the above. There are many people out there I'm sure who would make great music teachers but don't want to devote their lives to it, so never went down the music teaching route.

Reply 58

Prince Rhyus

Waiting2BeDiscovered

That's cost they think of those horrible plastic things that we had in primary school.

If they knew how much a wooden double bass recorder costs, it would be a different story. (That said, I was disappointed with the sound it made when I first heard it - more of a tenor man me...)