Oh I have a charango. I have a few xylophones too, including a small trung from Vietnam and a pentatonic bamboo thing from Indonesia. I have a tongue drum too, which is like a slit drum but it's got like nine notes cut into it. I used to have a dumbek/darbuka, but it was aluminum and I didn't like the sound much, so I gave it to a friend. Eventually I want to get a ceramic one.

Re:   charango

Is that the Mel Bay book, "Metodo De Charango", "Charango Method", by Horacio Durán  and Italo Pedrotti? If so I have it. I haven't gotten round to getting the chord charts out of it yet, but I'll see if I can get them soon, my wife just needs to get time to sit down and go through them with me so we can figure out what works and I can write them down.

I've been kicking around the idea of setting up a site with accessible instrument stuff, I have no idea how useful it would be since I'd focus on all of the world things first and not necessarily the standard stuff like guitar and such. But I'd either put stuff up, so basically either accessible fingering charts or links to them, accessible chord info if I can get it, stuff like that. I'll try to come up with a place to put it and start working on it, as long as I know at least one other person might use it, that's good enough for me. If there's one of you, there are more of you hiding somewhere!

Oh yeah, quena. I might be able to help you with it. I can try in text here or you can send me a private message thingy and we can get together on Skype or something, provided you can understand and speak English because sadly I don't know any other languages well enough to speak them, and I'm not that great at understanding either. I should really work on that one of these days I guess. I certainly don't claim to be any kind of authority, but I'll happily pass on whatever I know to anybody who's interested, do sound samples if somebody wants to hear an instrument, tell you where you can get one if I know, that sort of thing. Sure they call it an obsession, but what do they know, I ask you?

wow nice, just like me rofl.

@khomus I'll send you a pm if you want to contact through skype. You should have it by the time you read this post although there are no Notifications in place for PMs. I'll take the chance to learn whatever I can about the quena and others since instruction Materials are so rare. Yep, that's the book. I'm thankfull the thing exists since with out it I would be stuck.

@24: Oh yeah, you reminded me. I also play the panpipes.

@khomus I've replied to your pm, skype not working. @moaddye I don't think there is an easy way to answer that question. Probably depends on the person playing it. Instruments should not be judged by there outward simplicity. There are a couple one stringed instruments for example, but that doesn't make them easy to play.

Guitar, violin, drums (electric and acoustic kits), bass, trumpet, some accordion, and back in my teen years (which was only about 9 years ago) I played sax (baritone and tenor).

i wonder if people play recorders for a living, or if it's just a school thing.

the only 2 i ever played were the violin and piano. i learned how to play the violin sence i was young, i used to go out with my grandpa   and  he'd teech me  how to use it
oh, not to forgot the flute as well, i haven't really play any actual instromints in computer it self, but i know how to use them well in real life, i usually   play some songs that i learned when i feel like it.

I go to drum class and I want to learn to play the electric guitar.
How would you recommend learning to someone who is blind to learn? My cousin is learning, I asked him to teach me a little and I didn't understand a shit.
I don't know if it's because he explains badly or I'm too stupid.

I mostly play the flute these days but I've also played drums, Piano, Bass and Ukulele.
And I also play a midi keyboard when I want to make music in Reaper.

I play piano and sing. Had practically 0 experience with reaper's midi capabilities. Get me on an acoustic piano and I'll play for hours. <3 I miss having access to one since I moved.