Guitar. Been playing for close to 35 years now, and I’m half decent. I also play bass, but I consider myself a beginner.

And I was pretty good at trumpet when I was a kid, but I haven’t played since I was 16.

I bet if I had a recorder, I could still rip a mean hot cross bunz.

I play guitar. I have 15 now I think. I’m reasonably good, but every time you think you are good there is someone who is somehow 1000 fold better. I am not one to care to much about shredding ability. I’m more of a songwriter and entertainer.

I also play bass, harmonica, piano, jaw harp, but I suck big time at drums. I also have a stylophone that I play with for fun and write little melodies.

Can play most brass instruments its just been a very long time since I’ve picked most of them up. Usually just Trombone when I get the fancy since I still have mine from high-school

I play drums mostly as a way to exercise. I like to think I’m decent, but nowhere near good enough to play for people.

I spent a couple decades as a professional musician, and so I learned my way around a lot of instruments. I’d say bass is my best though - it’s absolutely my favorite. I’m not Thundercat but I’ll lay down rock grooves for you all week long.

I’m a serious skin flutist. I play mine like a seasoned master of the highest order.

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I play the cello decently well, I have played on and off for 8 years.

Viola, with proficiency somewhere between beginner and just plain bad. But it’s still fun (for a given value of"fun").

I started with guitar, then bass, then piano.

Guitar over only really played for fun with other people. I’ve played bass in 3 bands, 2 of those publicly. Piano I’ve played solo at recitals and publicly a few times as part of an ensemble group. Guitar and bass were self taught, so I plateaued early on, but I take piano lessons now. I also have a sampler/drum machine I play around with and use to make backing tracks to practice the other instruments.

I’m not very good at any of them in my own opinion, but it doesn’t take much to have fun. I think it’s harder to be good alone than playing with other people, though as an introvert, it’s hard to get over the initial hump of getting together with people.

Irish Penny Whistle. I can play slow things.

Started with guitar 21 years ago. Don’t remember the exact timelines, but I picked up bass and piano within a couple years. Then drums and singing. Dabbled in mandolin, banjo, cello. Most stringed instruments, especially those in western music, are pretty similar so they’re pretty easy to switch between. I even dabbled in clarinet because my older sister left it with my parents when she moved out, but I never put that much time into it.

My talents in each have waxed and wanted over the years. Guitar was always my primary preference.

The problem is that everyone and their mother can play guitar. It makes sense- tons of households have guitars lying around. Acoustics are a really cheap and easy entry point- any college student can pick one up and learn a few chords and start trying get attention. It fits in your dorm or in the car you’re halfway living out of. There’s also plenty of cheap box kits of really low-quality electric guitars + small practice amps that are affordable for parents, with the added benefit of making kids use headphones so you don’t disturb the neighbors. Drum kits, by contrast, are expensive, big, difficult to move around (band practice pretty much always has to be at the drummer’s place), and loud. So drummers are usually hard to find.

So I spent time in bands as a bassist and keyboardist. Two separate times I had wealthier friends who played guitar and had younger brothers whose parents purchased a drum kit, but those brothers never learned to play, so I ended up behind the kit even though I couldn’t really practice on my own time. For a while I was the basisst in a band where the left-handed drummer didn’t have room in his house, but there was room in my basement so I ended up messing around and learning to drum left-handed a bit too. I’ve been the lead guitarist, but only rarely outside of my solo stuff.

Bass is very similar to guitar. Different style, and I do think it’s important to change your approach and technique (I don’t use picks on bass), but a lot still translates. With keyboard I was never classically trained or anything- I mostly just learned guitar, bass, and vocals parts on keyboard. I put a lot of time into programming software synths. Often I would just match what those instruments were playing with a different texture, or just play chords underneath. As a keyboardist I would also be in charge of like, punctuation and sound effects. The kind of little extra things you don’t notice on an album and often gets cut out of live shows.

I think I’ve been a decent singer. I initially took lessons with the intention of just being a background vocalist and maybe doing some acoustic open mic nights. I joined the choir in college and got selected as the best Bass to represent the school at an event one year. I kind of accidentally ended up as the lead singer of a few bands just by being the best singer in the band. Never just the lead singer though - always play drums or bass or guitar too. Singing is a lot of work- I needed to stay in shape, watch what I ate and drank (especially on the nights of practice or performance). It’s easy to identify mistakes as you’re playing an instrument, but for singing I would have to record myself and listen back to it a ton. I learned from my choir director all the little details to listen for- pitch drift, sloppy pronunciation, breathing issues, etc. And Satan forbid I catch a cold before a show. Right now I’m out of practice, so while I could totally rock out a karaoke night at a bar I would need a couple of months notice before playing a real show.

At 9 I played violin.

I played guitar for 20 years (started at 10) in a somewhat successful few metal/hardcore/screamo bands.

I sang with some of the bands. I picked up bass and piano along the way. Can kinda play drums. Basic beats and understand most of the connections.

If I was to do it all again I would play bass. Probably the most intuitive for me. But it’s hard to say that the others didn’t lead to bass just seeming natural. But it was fun.

Cornet and Trumpet. I can play fairly advanced stuff but I don’t have the embouchure and can only keep it up for a few minutes.

Guitar: strumming and some finger picking. Took this up again during covid as I wanted to sing and play, which I can do now.

Piano: also from COVID. Slowly working through Alfreds but it’s fun so I don’t mind.