just a quick about me: Im a fairly experienced guitar player. I also play bass and some keyboard. I already have a pretty solid understand of music theory 101.
im looking for small, relatively inexpensive (<$100), instruments, that travel well, are easy to care for. ideally something good for melodic playing, but something that can do chords is a bonus. im a delivery driver, who gets a lot of free time on breaks, and just want something to jam on, and try to work on ear training, and transcribing melodies in my head into audible sound.
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Harmonia
this would be SO perfect, except Im just not a fan of the tone at all.
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guitar
already have a bunch. they can travel in the car, but they are a little too bulky to play in the car, take time to setup to a travel amp (i dont play acoustic), i also worry about theft, as well as damage from temperature changes.
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mandolin
also not a fan of the tone. its a bit weak, thin and tinny for me. i also have too many stringed instruments already.
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recorder
i think this instrument is a meme at this point. even the "good" recorder players still sound like they are playing kids toys to me.
so far, the best thing I can think of is the Piccolo. i dont know too much about it though. i saw in a video its best to learn flute before piccolo, and that while it can solo, its really more of a orchestral instrument. going to look into it more.
maybe there is something sort of similar to the piccolo, but plays in an octave lower...yet is still small(ish)
so...anyone got other suggestions?
Submitted January 02, 2017 at 09:50PM by fight_for_anything https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/5lotz3/suggestions_for_pocketsmall_instruments/?utm_source=ifttt