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Post by thepianist on Nov 7, 2010 15:23:08 GMT -5
Thought this might be a fun thread. Post pics if you have them, but don't feel compelled to as I have no pics of mine (contemplating a dSLR purchase next year). ;D
I'll start:
Piano: Steinway B, purchased new several years ago.
Guitars:
1999 Fender Telecaster (some kind of deluxe model); bought used. I've dropped in a new bridge pickup (a Seymour Duncan 5-2) to replace the rather tinny sounding "noiseless" stock pickup.
Somewhat newer deluxe Stratocaster. Used, but like new.
Valley Arts (Gibson) Brent Mason signature model—my favorite guitar. I need to clean the pots though.
Gibson CS '59 Les Paul "reissue" model. Very nice guitar for a jazzy sound from a solidbody.
I have a couple of classicals too. One is really a piece of junk. The other is *very* nice, but has a problem with breaking the 4th string.
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Post by sarah on Nov 8, 2010 23:37:01 GMT -5
Yeah, this does sound like fun.  Here goes: A GP-178 Boston grand piano, a relatively new acquisition A Wurlitzer spinet piano, older than the hills, that actually belongs to my mother, which belonged to her piano teacher, which belonged... An ebony Moeck Rottenburgh treble (alto) recorder with ivory rings, about ten years old A pearwood Mollenhauer recorder, also an alto, about fifteen years old (the older pearwood gets, the better, so I bought used) About fifteen resin Yamaha recorders, ranging from sopranino, about six inches long, to tenor, about three feet long A Geminhardt M3 flute with B footjoint, about ten years old |
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 9, 2010 6:25:50 GMT -5
Out of boredom: My 1962 Loree oboe:  My Gemeinharht flute:  My Gothic harp:  My Hohner melodica very useful!  My violin:  My viola:  One of my clavichords:  My beautiful sounding Höfner guitar:  Then my camera ran out of juice! My square piano I practice my Chopin on (made before he was born!)  My not so nice sounding Framus f-hole  Uploaded with ImageShack.us |
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Post by sarah on Nov 9, 2010 22:03:12 GMT -5
Wow, keyboardclass, you have quite an assortment there! I enjoyed the pics. Do you have a "real" piano? I'm just curious.  |
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 10, 2010 4:31:39 GMT -5
No. I have four! In four different houses.
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Post by sarah on Nov 10, 2010 10:38:55 GMT -5
Oh my goodness. Very impressive! (the houses and the pianos). That makes practicing easier... as long as you can find time. |
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 10, 2010 11:09:04 GMT -5
 I only own the one house which is an apartment where I don't like the thought of my playing disturbing others. Happily the 1800 square piano and the clavichord are quiet things. Here's one of the other houses where my lastest piano is (my parents). A humdinger 1904 Williams one of the top Canadian Uprights!  Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Post by sarah on Nov 10, 2010 12:31:58 GMT -5
I feel sure that being a musician in an apartment is a difficult proposition I lived in one when I was a small girl, so I don't remember much about it, but I don't relish the thought anyway. How do you find a tech to service the square piano? Maybe my memory is serving me wrong, but I think I remember reading that they're hard to find. |
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 10, 2010 12:36:03 GMT -5
I tune the square myself. It's a light tension wooden frame with only two strings per note. Also it has no escapment which makes it easier to run.
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Post by sarah on Nov 10, 2010 14:05:51 GMT -5
Well, there you go! Become the tuner. I like that solution. I've thought of learning how to tune in the past, but I'm scared to death of messing up my pianos somehow, so I still pay somebody to sweat over mine. Your folks' home is beautiful, by the way! I like the arches in the front. I've heard great things about the Williams' uprights - haven't seen any down here in the American South so I don't have experience with them, but I suspect they're lovely pianos to be able to own. Probably the Canadian equivalent of our Walter uprights? |
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 10, 2010 14:25:27 GMT -5
I've never played a Walter. My Williams is a real joy - it was refurbished 10 or 20 years ago.
Do you still play the flute? I got mine at an outside flea market in NS. $110! I hadn't studied the flute for 25 years or so so what a joy that was. I know so much more now about the baroque that within a few days I was playing the Bach solo suite better than ever I did in my youth - some really interesting articulations.
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Post by sarah on Nov 10, 2010 14:54:16 GMT -5
Yes, I do still play my flute, although not very consistently in either practice time or quality. I solo with my recorder ensemble every now and again. That's neat about how you acquired your flute! That's a fantastic deal in my book. How I ended up with mine is somewhat similar - somebody was selling an estate-sale find on eBay and I ended up with the winning bid. I haven't owned it for very long (2 years?). Wow, amazing that you could do so well after 25 years on that Bach suite (I KNOW what my playing would be like if I had a few years' sabbatical ). The articulations do make it! |
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 10, 2010 14:59:38 GMT -5
I'll have to organize a vid.
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Post by sarah on Nov 10, 2010 15:04:18 GMT -5
That'd be neat.
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Post by currawong on Nov 10, 2010 17:56:28 GMT -5
kbc, I like the wooden spoon holding up the lid of the clavichord! Pianos [1]Yamaha C3 grand [2]1920's Australian-made Beale pianola (harder to move than the grand is!) [3]Ancient Mignon upright with sentimental value Violin - 19thC Stainer model ( really nice violin) Viola - Old and rather battered 14". It likes the humid weather (all the cracks close up!) I'd like a bigger one, but can't afford it right now. Harpsichord - English bentside spinet which I made from a Zuckermann kit. Packed up at the moment, no room for it. Clavichord - small fretted one I made also from a Zuckermann kit. I love it! Moeck treble recorder - also a Rottenburgh model like yours Sarah, but mine is light-coloured wood. Is it maple? I can't remember. A few plastic descant recorder, a Dolmetsch plastic tenor recorder, a nice box of percussion instruments, and an old acoustic guitar. Or maybe my daughter has that now... I also have a portable Casio keyboard of great antiquity (about 1985) |
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Post by damon on Nov 10, 2010 20:27:51 GMT -5
No pictures but:
Yamaha ex5
Yamaha s80
Yamaha motif
Yamaha p200
Roland Ax-Synth
Emu Emax
Korg dw8000
Kawai K1
Technics p3
Paul Reed Smith guitar
and some unknown violin (says "copy of Antonius Stradivarius" on the inside)
and a harmonica laying in a drawer somewhere.
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Post by sarah on Nov 11, 2010 11:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by keyboardclass on Nov 11, 2010 14:04:25 GMT -5
Believe it or not I'm in touch with old man Zuckermann. He's retired and owns a bookshop in the south of France. It's funny, I never once thought of posting a pic of my DP. I suppose I don't consider it an instrument! On the other hand my Pianet N - I really must get it going again. The lid of my clavichord is interesting - I actually cut in in half which makes it very convenient. I can stick a computer screen on it and sight read stuff all day! Here's my youtube of the guy who made it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZd_36puXA |
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Post by currawong on Nov 11, 2010 16:30:13 GMT -5
Thanks sarah - it's the maple! Exactly like the picture. Yes, it does sound beautiful. When I first got it I couldn't get over how easily the high notes speak. I'd been tying myself in knots trying to get them on my old el cheapo and on the Moeck - there they were, smooth as anything.
Interesting to hear of Mr Zuckermann in retirement, kbc! Those instruction manuals were really really good, as long as you were a follow the directions carefully kind of person. "Now pick up the hammer..."
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Post by thepianist on Nov 22, 2010 22:20:49 GMT -5
Wow, thanks for sharing guys! All of you have pretty instruments.
kbc: I've never liked the sound of F hole guitfiddles either, unless they are electric hollowbodies.
Like this:
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Here goes:
I only own the one house which is an apartment where I don't like the thought of my playing disturbing others. Happily the 1800 square piano and the clavichord are quiet things. 
