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Le discours musical

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(@valentina16)
Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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I was going to try and take a day off CDH today, feeling I may have perhaps over imposed myself on the discussion platforms yesterday, but hey, these Qs just keep popping into my bouncy Double Dee CD head.

Q: Do you play a musical instrument, and if so, do you ever play it en femme, alone or in public?

[My answer, by way of “overture”, I play guitar (Singer-songwriter)(CDs, Spotify, Nashville etc) but haven’t (yet!) played en femme]

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Lady
(@astridt)
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Estimable Member     London, United Kingdom
Posts: 70

@valentina16 As a kid I played the violoncello, I still have it. A stimulating idea to take it from its case, put on a dress, and pretend to be Jacky du Pre playing Elgar's concerto 😊

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@astridt I think you should!

btw, I lived (in my youth) right by Elgar’s birthplace. A useless piece of information if ever there was! 🥸

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Lady
(@astridt)
Joined: 1 month ago

Estimable Member     London, United Kingdom
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@valentina16 pretty useless indeed, but fun to hear 😀. I'll start practising right away, but am afraid I'll never sound like, nor look like Jacqueline in her prime.

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@astridt perhaps, being harshly truthful, but not like Jacqueline in her not prime either! Similarly, I will never sound like John Williams or Eric Clapton. However, I can do a veritable Leonard Cohen. Not quite the same though, is it 😔

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(@alexina)
Joined: 1 year ago

Illustrious Member     Fife, United Kingdom
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@valentina16 

I've had a bass guitar for about 30 years but never learned more than a couple of riffs, Pink Floyd's "Money" and the cool bit from Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain".

However, I took half a dozen lessons about a year ago and can now be heard on many of the combos featured in the hit parade. In my dreams 😂.

I have played it en femme once but the headbanging made my curlers fall out.

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@alexina lmfao, excuse my French!

Did I tell you I have a song released in Nashville? Seriously. Well, tbh, it isn’t my song, but it is my acoustic guitar, honest, with accreditation. Y’all knew me before I was famous!! I will invite y’all to my musical wot I am writing (seriously). The script is in first draft. I am providing the music. That’s the plan.

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(@alexina)
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Illustrious Member     Fife, United Kingdom
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@valentina16 

Go Valentina! Big respect, honey, best of luck with it. 

Grin

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@alexina Ponders though, how this would align with me being CD. I must think hard.

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@valentina16 Sounds fantastic!

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(@ab123)
Illustrious Member     Surrey, United Kingdom
Joined: 5 years ago

I don't play an instrument but have tried in the past. For the safety of the community I was told to stop.

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@ab123 Each to her own 🤣

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(@cdsue)
Famed Member     Delaware, United States of America
Joined: 5 years ago

I play guitar though not very good. I started taking lessons a few years ago at the behest of my wife. It was something I always wanted to do and she encouraged me. I stopped lessons after 2 years for financial reasons but continue to play. I do it for my enjoyment (and my wife's) so only at home and not yet en femme but have thought about it. Maybe one day I'll slip into a pretty dress and play a tune or two.

XOXO
Suzanne

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@cdsue I have been playing for 50+ years now and am beginning to get some (ok, minute) traction with my singer songwriting. I’m gonna be famous, he says, lol. But I will. Not quite sure the world is fully ready for my CD side in all that, I am pondering. 

But my dream (one of the many!) is to sing at a CD conference on stage in man, nay cowboy 🤠 attire, do three songs in my deepest Johnny Cash voice (for I have one), including Boy Named Sue, Fire & Rain (apparently I sound not unlike James Taylor 😇) then go off for a break and be dressed en femme quickly by the makeup team (more Brandy Clark than Dolly Parton perhaps!) and sing female songs in a befitting vocal range (for I can do). I’m thinking Ashley McBryde’s wonderful ‘Gospel Night at the Strip Club’ (qv), anything by Rhonda Vincent, Gretchen Peters ‘If Heaven’ (beautiful), maybe Tammy’s ‘Stand By Your Man’, and ok, I give in, Jolene, maybe wearing my proportional (not) F forms. If you can pay my airfare and put me up, I’m on my way USA! Dream on Valentina, dream on. 😔

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(@cdsue)
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@valentina16 that is wonderful to have that many years of playing experience. If only I had pursued the guitar seriously when I was growing up. I tried to teach myself which as I'm sure you know never works and didn't know anyone to teach me on a regular basis. 

I love your dream and all the songs you would play. You should find a CD convention where you may be able to do that. I would send my private jet for you but it's in for repair right now (joking - I don't own a private jet). Would love to see you play Jolene with your F forms in.

XOXO
Suzanne

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@cdsue I have found if you try hard enough it’s amazing what you can achieve. 💚

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(@caroline2k)
Noble Member     Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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I play guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizer, flute, bouzouki and mandolin, and dabble with violin, sax, theremin and sitar. I also 'sing' in the band I play guitar with and on recordings.

I think if I were to play en femme, I would play bass, as there's no way I could navigate my pedals in heels. Besides, girls always look dead cool playing bass - with the possible exception perhaps of Este Haim who, I'm sorry to say, looks rather demented! 🤭

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@caroline2k Wow!!! There just aren’t the right emojis to express my undying admiration and respect. 

Though, as ever, I do run myself down, for I have recently bought a BANJO and BODHRAN. I have a feeling (before you say) these are in no way as ‘cool’ as playing a bass guitar though. Which is the ultimate in coolness, en femme or otherwise. ☺️

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(@caroline2k)
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Noble Member     Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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@valentina16 Thanks Valentina, but no need for all that! 🙂

If I was any good I'd be able to afford to hire a gardener! 🤣

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(@judevderl)
Estimable Member     London, United Kingdom
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I play Tenor Sax and Piano. 

My wife also plays piano as well as double bass. We were part of a jazz quartet while at university, but disbanded soon after. 

We tend to play at weekends together to relax. Generally me on sax and her at the piano.

Have never played either 'en femme', as yet.

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@judevderl ty for sharing 🎶💚🎶

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(@finallyfiona)
    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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I used to play a LOT of piano in my youth, figuring out and playing my favourite progressive stuff by ear.  Then life happened!  I still have a piano, these days it's even an electronic one with a headphone socket.  But the urge to play doesn't come around very often - so when it does, my fingers are a long way out of condition and I never really enjoy it.  Maybe when I retire I'll play more.  I've found a fair amount more music over the years that could be interesting to develop for 10 fingers.

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@finallyfiona I have been playing guitar for 50+ years and similarly took an enforced break. But once I hit 60 and had family in Nashville, things sort of went exponential. Technically, I have actually sung on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, in ‘the’ circle., technically.

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Duchess
(@gracepal)
Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
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I played the clarinet in grade school. I practiced to get better so I could sit closer to the flute section. This was comprised of all girls - wearing miniskirts, so we’re taking 1968-69 here. I wanted to get closer to get a better view of their legs in nylons…swear to God😊! Probably a factor in my wanting to try the darn things on a few years later🤣

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@gracepal Doesn’t make you a bad person, as they say. I used to look at my now wife’s rather small legs on the school bus going home, they were verrry wrinkly tights though. Even wrinkly tights made a lifelong impression.

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Duchess
(@gracepal)
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Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
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@valentina16 I’ll gladly take wrinkled tights over varicose veins, blotchy skin, scars and bruises any old time🤣

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(@valentina16)
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Noble Member     Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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@gracepal ….er, she was only 15 though, not a varicose vein in sight… (lol)

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(@caroline2k)
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Noble Member     Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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@gracepal I can imagine no better a reason for practising the clarinet 😀

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Duchess
(@gracepal)
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Noble Member     South Carolina, United States of America
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@caroline2k Absolutely Caroline. With the added plus that as you play the clarinet, you’re looking down. Very easy to side glance and check out the legs🤪

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(@aliceunderwire)
Illustrious Member     Near Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
Joined: 5 years ago

 Alentina,

As a kid I took trumpet and drum lessons.  But I never kept it up.

Alice

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