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Guitar, alto sax, clarinet, recorder, mandolin, trumpet, sitar (cheap 3/4 size with several broken strings I'm too lazy to replace), oud (ornamental but I strung it with nylon guitar strings and it makes a surprisingly good sound). I also have a keyboard, an electric organ, a violin and a flute but I can't really play any of them.
I mostly play for my own amusement, my compositions are all written for computer rendering rather than human performance. I do plan on creating some pieces with computers and live instruments eventually, but at the moment I'm just not ready to devote myself to working out the logistics of such an arrangement.
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I'm self-taught, I don't see any advantages in it whatsoever, I only see the limits. My technical abilities have stagnated, no matter how much I practice, probably because I never learned proper technique and have no idea what I'm doing wrong; a teacher would've corrected this by physically moving and futzing around with my hands and fingers until they did things right.
I also try and teach myself as much about theory as I can, but as much as I've studied it over the years, I only have a faint grasp on the basics.
I don't think you need to know how to read music, but you definitely need to understand musical language when you're jamming with other people, you need to at least know what key you're in and how to play in time, and all that shit.
People see famous self-taught musicians and think that everyone can be that great, but the truth is those people are naturally talented and probably would've been even bigger had they been taught professionally.
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