Banjo & wire guitar tear my fingers up. Pity, I wasn't too bad at nylon guitar after a couple of years backing up the junior choir.
I'm doing a lot with organ now. I played a pipe organ Wednesday afternoon at Highlands Methodist as we were were waiting for the electronics board manufacturer to call back. It was a capture action board fault, not a necessary board for a newbie to play. I have 4 Hammond tonewheels & a Wurlitzer electronic consoles, and now a Shober recital organ with AGO pedals and power supply issues.
I played bassoon 6 years in junior-senior high school. I really miss it, they are about $25000 now or $4000 for ex school beaters. I never found it hard, only stretching the left fingers apart the first few weeks, when I was about 46" tall and 80 pounds. Bassoon takes a lot of pitch correction with the mouth, but I was good at that. Comes in handy tuning pianos. I had a lot of wind, I rode a bicycle everywhere after school. No Mom's taxi for me. I looked at buying a bassoon 1984, but two guys had all the bassoon gigs around here in the amateur orchestras. The college orchestra director wanted me to take up string bass, but one of those wouldn't fit in my car (Chevette). Other bassoon players have been usually very nice, and interesting otherwise.
My high school band and the 1968 TexMusEdAssn All State band with me on bassoon are on LP's, but I can't figure any way to get that onto digital. I've got the Hammond H100 organ recorded on inbojat.tumblr.com the Yellow Bird track -very simple. right mike is a $2 dynamic and hisses, the left is a shure SM27 condensor mike and sounds good even with the 10khz response hump.
I tried to buy a flat response condensor mike last week, and couldn't come to terms. Guitar Center wanted my cell phone number (none) for $90 off, and musician's friend normal price was $50 off GC but no further discounts on shure condensor mikes, especially not the flat response one. I've wanted 2 good mikes for 45 years, still holding at one. there's a used one in Colombus OH for $350, cash only, 100 miles too far for bicycle and Greyhound won't carry bikes free. It would take me >$150 to get there, with a motel one night.
I've got the Springdale UMC junior choir with me on guitar on VHS video, again, an orphan format. three of those 10 kids could sing on pitch, but they all knew the words. I've got both Springdale choirs (junior + adult) recorded on an hour Christmas cantata on VHS with me playing my Ensoniq EPS synth, some sequenced tracks I recorded and some live with soloists. Pity the floppy disk drive cratered on that.
Topic: what else do you play? do you have recordings or vids ?