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Well its good to know how to play many instruments but you should master one first before switching

I tried many different instruments but I'm only really good at two, piano and alto sax. The reason I tried so many varies with each instrument:

Trombone: My jazz band only had one trombone, but had 6 saxophones. The director asked me if I would like to try Trombone for the year to help out and I agreed.

Trumpet: 3 trumpets, 10 saxes. Same story as Trombone.

French Horn: "National skip school day." 5 people in band. Nothing to do. One french horn. Sheer boredom.

Hammered Dulcimer: Went to bible camp and we had a music portion of it. I saw the dulcimer and they put me on that for the week.

Irish Tin Whistle: My mother's friend went to Ireland and brought me back this as a present.

Bodhran: Another present from my mom's friend.

Drums: It started out as a joke. My sax was being repaired so I had nothing to play and I told my BD that I'd play drums for the day considering we don't have a drummer. It turned out I didn't do too bad, so they gave me the drumset part for our two Disney songs.

I agree. I know a less-than-stellar clarinetist who's trying to learn sax. I'm not impressed with him but it's his choice.

If you want to learn a ton of instruments and in turn become a 'master' of one, be a percussionist. It somehow works that way for us.

I agree that you should master the instrument you play before starting a new one. If you get to a point where you are above your class in skill, first chair without competition and your teacher says you are a good player, its acceptable to try a new one. Once you have mastered that as well, and as long as you still are a master of the first, you can find a new one. If you cant play an instrument well, i dont consider you ebign able to play it.

If you dont like an isntruemtn, then dont continue playing it. its understandable if that is the reason why you are only a master of one.

Me and my friend got to a point in middle school where we were getting bored playing our isntruments because our skill level was above the band. So, we both started learnign and mastering new instruments. i can proudly say that I nearly am i jack of all trades, and master of each and every one. Yes, there are a few that have stopped at a middle school level, becaus ei have not the resources to pick them up again and actually master them. I am currently working on my alto sax skills. I wil probably never master trombone. I did not really enjoy playign it, or see myself ever managing to maste rit because of this fact. No offence to trombone players. I guess it kinda helps i have short arms, so 4th position was torture and above that was near impossible.

Well, I play bass guitar and various percussion pretty well. I love the ability to be able to play multiple instruments, it's a huge plus when it comes time to record your songs that you wrote. A good example is Lenny Kravitz, he plays nearly ALL the instruments on his albums during recording, very rarely does he have someone else playing. He's really amazing, I would love to be able to play guitar well, then I could record my own album by myself, hahah.

In my experience, the only instrument I've ever doubled horn with is piano, and that is because I had been playing piano since I was 4. My piano playing has fallen a lot because I've gotten so serious with horn. I can't imagine myself picking up another instrument and keeping my skills in horn. There's just too much to practice. There's no way I could get in three hours a day on two instruments when I have a hard enough time finding three hours for 1.

Haha yeah. I nearly broke my window te first note i played, because i overblew really bad and mad a horrible mixtue of squeak and fart that my entire houe shook and the neighbors called the police...

Then i nearly broke my frinds head with the slide...oopsXD