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title: "Definitely one of the musical instruments ever"
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permalink: /:title/
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description: "Comprehensive list of musical instruments I can play in varying levels of expertise, sorted according to the time I learned them from earliest to latest... now read that again, but faster"
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category: personal
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Learning to play musical instruments taught me a lot about learning things in general. There's a creative and logical side to it. There's a mental and physical side to it. There's an existential and spiritual side to it. There's practical and theoretical applications. I even have some parenting lessons I got from playing drums and bass (more on those later).
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There's just too many sides to mention, actually, but in this post, I just wanna take some time to look back to all the musical instruments I ever played and write down some brief commentary on each... more or less.
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## 1. ukulele (a.k.a., yukelele)
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Back when I was at a young age--maybe around 4 to 5 years old--my father bought instruments for me and my elder sister. She got a nice ukulele, and I got a small guitar made of coconut shells. I don't know what was the expectation there... but I ended up breaking mine and taking hers.
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It's not like I was a jerk to my sister or something; you see my sister and I had one of those double decker beds and I accidentally dropped the fragile coconut guitar from the top bed. I was heartbroken, and because she didn't really took interest in playing her instrument, I sort of took it over... for caretaking.
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There you go, I was a good kid.
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We earned money, divided in equal parts, from my ukulele-playing because we used it a lot during Christmas carolling season. Fun!
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Looking back now and considering a friend's definition of "professional", which was "if you are earning money doing something, you are a pro", then it is safe to say I was a pro ukulele-player at around 4 to 5 years old.
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## 2. recorder (that wind pipe thingy)
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The recorder was kind of weird because it didn't actually record anything. Maybe they ran out of names for wind instruments?
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Anyway, we had one of those too growing up. Color white, hard plastic (I think), and I played it a lot when I got board of the ukulele.
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The thing about wind instruments is you have to manage a lot of spit. I was exceptionally known to have more saliva on my face and clothes as a kid even during normal, non-recorder-playing days; it was gross. You can just imagine what that was like I guess...
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So I never played the recorder in front of an audience except that one time when I met a couple of other kids who really liked it so I showed off. We hit it off, and after that, I remember them calling the house landline a few times and we got jammin' over the phone... spit and all.
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## 3. classical & acoustic guitar
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I'm categorizing here because I only picked up the electric guitar much much later
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4. keyboard / piano (very basic)
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5. electric bass
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6. drums (the kind you see in rock bands)
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7. bajo de arco (the big standing bass you see in string ensembles)
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