I played recorder and piano. I can't remember why, for some reason I wasn't allowed to learn instruments other than piano (which I grew to hate) at secondary school. I really wanted to play violin, but I think I might have offended the violin teacher in my school by being male (all of the violin students were female). Shame really, I could've saved myself a lot of hassle in my late-teens if I didn't have to teach myself to read music for instruments other than piano.

I really, really suck at piano now.

i played a harmonica today and i will purchase one because its damn cool.

I almost did but I thought it would be border-line pretentious under the circumstances..

I have one.

Ehhh... they are amusing for about five minutes.

And you aren't one for pretention.

Yeah, I was going to go there..

It was a birthday present, I never went out and bought a harmonica.

I'm not sure if you're replying to me but I was replying to SomePalsBeRisks.

thats not true, I used to play in this blues group with this dude who carried a set of like eight of those motherfuckers, and let me tell you, he was bad! I was lead guitar and never got one solo cuz this dude was so damn good I could not possibly contest, and it was quite the priviledge actually to accent his stuff with some leads. a lot of fun and energy.

Oh.

And yeah, of course it can sound great if you are skilled at it but how many people who have harmonicas really go out of the way to get better at it?

thats not true, I used to play in this jazz group with this dude who carried a set of like one of those motherfuckers (that's all he needed), and let me tell you, he was bad! I mean good! I was tenor sax and never got one solo cuz this dude was so damn good I could not possibly contest, and it was quite the priviledge actually to accent his stuff with some leads. a lot of fun and energy.

Yeah I wasn't calling you pretentious.

any sudgestions?

Nor was I.

dude, didn't you get that it was a joke from the beginning? though actually, pythagoras himself warned his followers not to play woodwind instruments, as he believed them to be of the devil.

Hahaha! Now that's what I call cross forum contamination!

It depends where it began.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

What? That was the joke? Are telling me God's good creation is a joke? Or have you completely gone mad?

Clarinet, as a reeded instrument, precedes harmonica.

Interestingly, while most instruments belong to a specific group (woodwind, brass, percussion etc) harmonica belongs to the group of instruments, largely unrelated, known as 'shit'.

*Edit - or, to give it its full name 'shit instruments that, no matter that there may be rare instances of them not sounding like shit, will always be shit'. In this group it is joined by the melodica.