piano, synths, computer-based synths (like buzz), guitar, a little bass, trumpet.  music is awesome and a big part of my life.

Well, I'm more autistic than a aspie, but I'm curretly learning how to play the piano and I know a bit on the guitar. Hope to be learning a lot more instruments soon--- and I am soon going to be taking singing lessons! ^w^

Hey, welcome to AFF! ~ SharpCookies~
Good for you for learning piano, guitar and taking singing lessons.

I am going to teach myself the cello, as suddenly I need to play some unaccompanied Bach. May take a while to learn though.

I play the turkish Saz, turkish Tanbur, kurdish Tanbour, persian Setar, persian Tar, afghani Rebab, uyghur Rawap, indian Sitar, Guitar, indian Harmonium, bulgarian Kaval, turkish Darbuka, and Dobro.

I'm just curious as to what instruments other aspie musicians play.

Although I am not much of a musician, but I have some interesting tidbits about the Setar, and the Tar.

Setar means three strings in Farsi, and Tar means string in Farsi.

Farsi is Iranian Persian (If you are wondering what is Farsi.)

in no particular order...items in parenthasis are on the top of my wishlist, the rest i own and play regularly...

ludwig 14,15,18,20,26 and tama 12,13,16,20 w/zildjian and pastie 2002, 17"caribean style slatted djembe, 13" ashiko, 14" angled cajon, agogos, cowbell, more cowbell, (vibes, marimba, bells, glock, chimes, timpani, steel drums, v-drums), spd20, washer/drier, 10,000k gallon tank, pots, pans, and anything else you can beat with a stick.

ob12, v-synth, prophet vs, motif, dx200, nord lead 3, jx305, darkstar, sh1, jv2080, xv3080, sp303, warp factory, sk1 x3,  kc500, motion labs leslie top (fizmo, motif ex7, triton rack, fantom xr, hartman neuron)

remix 16, sp1200mk3x2, pmc06pro, pmc07pro, mo-fx x2, killerEQ x2, serato, 26+ linear feet of plates, 10k+ tracks on drive/cd (cdj800, pmc37pro, repeater)

dual g4 qs, g5 imac, emac g4, LOGIC pro 7 with various plugin instruments, amt8, unitor8, onyx 1620, filter factory, mfc42, ef1, effectronII, ep4+, c414b tlII, mc012 x2, om3, om7, beta58 (m2000, ksp8, h3000, komplete, waves mercury, guad g5, tannoy eclipse, apogee ad16x/da16x, drum mics)

american special MAHOGANY strat, steinberger synapse transcale baritone and 5-string bass, fender bullet w/ emg89 and gk3a/gi20 midi, alvarez yari acoustic, takamine acoustic bass, pos clasical, pocket pod, bass pod xt live, (pod x3 live, echoplex, vg strat, les paul baritone, klein-berger, road king, urei 811c x2, bagend subs)

120 base accordian, possesed theater organ w/ builtin leslie, trumpet, trombone, bugle

im also an avid beatboxer.

looking foreward to tring tabla, marimba lumina, malletkat, ztar, guitaron, theremin, v-acordian and yamaha gx1

thats off the top of my head, im sure i forgot something...

after reading what i just wrote, i realize three things...
a) the tama kick is 22 not 20 and
b) holy crap! i need to start a museum!
c) my aspie interest just might be music!

Hell yeah!  I am a PDD-NOS DX musician, keyboardist, and vocalist!  I don't mean to brag, but I have perfect pitch...

I play piano, keyboards, I sing, and I write music for any genre, even though my favorites are jazz, blues, metal, and hard rock.

Welcome guys!
jman8973

WELCOME to you jman8973!!!
You sound talented.  
Are you in a band?
Have you recorded any of your own music?

Am I the only monoskilled musician here?

My brother composed his own music on an IBM PCjr.  The song was "Road to Logrod", it seemed to follow the lyrics well.
I think he is Asperger, and less functioning than I am (only he is better paid with more job experience).

Thanks so much! Um, is there a welcome forum place thing so I can post my welcome? I looked before but couldn't find one... ^^'

And Cello actually sounds interesting. I'm interested to learn many instruments, of course, but still. >w< Teaching yourself it will be hard though, won't it?

Try "The Introduction Thread" in "Time out", which has recently reawakened from a six-month slumber.

I've been learning how to play the Great Highland Bagpipes...

Where do you go to practise?
I ask this because my university's music centre did not permit bagpipes to be played in the practice rooms. That was St Andrews. If you're not allowed to practise Scotland's national instrument at Scotland's first university, where can you? Maybe the University of the Highlands & Islands...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHI_Millennium_Institute

I'm taking this year off from my regular school (for testing and analysis and such), so I am practicing at my house. That's pretty messed up (but at the same time funny) about how they don't let anyone play bagpipe at your university. When I lived in my dorms, though, I would see people playing them outside of their dorm buildings.