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Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by geuis » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 11:35 AM UTC

Trombone and baritone

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by maryrosecook » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 12:46 PM UTC

I've had a solo band for a few years (http://werenotthecoolkids.com/music/index.php). I've been in several bands with friends. I play the guitar, drums and sing. Being a polymath is really important to me.

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by shiro » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 12:58 PM UTC

antiform wrote: post #37

My pet theory is that playing a musical instrument is less common a hobby among programmers now than it was a generation ago, because now programming tends to be associated with "Computer Science" as its own discipline, rather than a subdiscipline of math. Near the end of this interview [ http://tex.loria.fr/historique/interviews/knuth-clb1993.html ], Don Knuth says that one way CS graduate students have changed sinc…

> the chances are most of them will say 'Bicycling'

Interesting. I play piano ( http://www.youtube.com/user/anohana ), but back in college I also loved traveling by bicycle (carrying a tent, camping).

Looking around my colleagues, I have a guitar player, another piano player, a bass player, a drummer,... but I'd say players are not majority.

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by nickd » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 1:32 PM UTC

I started playing banjo 8 months ago. It's pretty much been my only hobby since then. Though, I think the upstairs neighbors may have moved out as a result. I still haven't found a way to practice that's fruitful, and yet isn't way to loud for everyone else. Mutes just aren't fun.

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by elbicho » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 2:48 PM UTC

I play guitar, compose and do recording engineering

This is my profile in a nice collaborative site.

http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/userName-elbicho/p...

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by tonetheman » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 3:09 PM UTC

i play guitar

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by thomasfl » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 3:13 PM UTC

I am the lead singer in a Kiss tribute band. Everybody with low self esteem should try singing in a metal band.

We don't use guitars, but have good tuba and violin players. I also play keyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7DgpSddLiU

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by foulmouthboy » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 3:16 PM UTC

14 years of piano lessons. Also clarinet and saxaphone and I'll mess around with just about everything else.

When I told my piano teacher that I was going to school for engineering and got into the pre-med program (as opposed to music), she was in total shock and her immediate response was, "wait... are you smart?"

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by msg » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 3:43 PM UTC

I play and record myself on acoustic-electric plugged into a multi-effects pedal, plugged into the computer, and I sing.

I suck at everything.

Re: Ask HN: Musicians?

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Post by artlogic » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 3:50 PM UTC

I actively play guitar and electric bass - I fool around on banjo, mandolin, and drums. I'm also currently learning to play cello. I find that playing/writing music often times gets me through a tough coding problem more quickly than thinking about it directly. I'm also likely one of those people who Knuth mentioned as I have pretty serious interests in the mathematics behind computation.