WomensStuff

My chief area of interest is woodwinds and adjacent, but my instrumental history is roughly as follows:

• accordion (YES! STOP LAUGHING!)
• organ/electronic keyboards
• alto saxophone (and the woodwinds enter my life)
• alto clarinet
• tenor saxophone
• soprano saxophone
• dizi (transverse bamboo flute)
• xun (a Chinese fipple-free endblown ocarina from the bowels of Hell)
• hulusi (free-reed instrument typically constructed of bamboo and calabash, with drone pipes, though my first was wooden, not gourd)
• xiao (end-blown bamboo flute)
• guanzi (double-reed pipe from the bowels of Hell)
• bawu (like a hulusi without a gourd or drones; can be transverse or endblown for slight flavour differences)
• kalimba (ranging from 8-tine to 42-tine, I mostly use them to do meditative noodling around)

I also have this weird electronic musical egg that's got five buttons used for actual sound triggering, but a full three octave range with those five buttons because of a nifty chording interface. It's great, like the kalimba, for just meditative noodling around.

Generally the music I perform with these is folk or folk-informed, though I sometimes play along with songs in almost any style played on my computer speakers.