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Drums and voice are my main musical outlets, but I do play bass, guitar, and piano for songwriting purposes.
I have played guitar and piano in the past, don't have time these days.
gomaster wrote:
I did a bit of googling on the subject of chess, music and maths.
I quote from the following web page http://www.edutechchess.com/whychess.html
"Many parallels have been drawn between mathematics, music, and chess. Lasker (1949) states:
Mathematical thinking is generally held to be more or less closely related to the type of thinking done in chess. Mathematicians are indeed drawn to chess more than most other games. What is less widely known is that very frequently mathematicians are equally strongly attracted to music. Many musicians do not reciprocate this attraction, but I firmly believe that this is mainly due to their lack of acquaintance with mathematics, and to the widespread confusion of mathematics with “figuring.”
An intriguing phenomenon that links mathematics, music and chess is the fact that child prodigies have been known only in these three fields. That children have never produced a masterwork in painting, sculpture, or literature seems only natural when we consider their limited experience of life. In music, chess, or mathematics, that experience is not needed. Here, children can shine, because native gifts are the dominant factor. Aesthetic sensitiveness and ability to think logically are certain inborn qualities. How, otherwise, could Mozart have composed a minuet, and actually written it down, before he was four years of age? How could Gauss, before he was three years old, and before he knew how to write, have corrected the total of a lengthy addition he saw his father do? How could Sammy Reshevsky play ten games of chess simultaneously when he was only six?
The reasoning ingredient in a chess combination is always of prime importance, even though a vivid imagination will make a chess player think of possibilities that will not occur to a less imaginative logician. (p. 142)
The above passage indicates abstract reasoning, a generally accepted quality inherent in both mathematics and music, is of prime importance in chess.
thnks bro!!!!that one was really cool....
Thanx gomaster, now please go and find out what the relationship between smoking and breastfeeding is. lol
Only kidding that was cool.
I play the french horn
Wow, almost a complete lack of drummers!?!? Yeah, I'm a really good drummer and a REALLY LOUSY electric guitar player. But I'm learning. I find that surgery on a finger doesn't help build calluses well 
Cool a drummer at last, not that I was waiting for one. I took up drumming but was told I have two left hands!
So took up the guitar instead. Still no good but at least it's less noisy.
Red
Dec 19, 2007
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You might also confer with (or have conferred with) avant-garde composer, John Cage; Russian conductor, Sergei Prokofiev; violinist, David Oistrakh, and even the Soviet composer, Dimitri Shostakovich.
Paul Morphy, when he was in Paris, often attended soirées by Mme. D'Angely. On one such occassion he was introduced to the Italian baritone, Francesco Graziani who had been taking chess lessons from Jean Préti (the founder of La Strategie). Mme D'Angely persuaded Morphy to play Graziani, spotting him Queen odds with the condition that Morphy sing a duet with him after the game. It's unknown whether they actually sang the duet, but after the game, Graziani said, "if anyone should ask me if I am a chess player, I will reply, 'Oh yes, I sometimes play with Mr. Morphy.'"
Jan 16, 2008
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Music is my profession. I play keyboards and guitar primarily, but most of my work is in production, writing and arranging.
Feb 19, 2014
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I play and collect vintage guitars. I have known a lot of people who play musical instruments and also love the game of chess. I do not believe this to be a coincidence. I have started 2 new forum threads in the last two days / The Vintage Guitar Forum and The Vintage Electric Guitar Forum. Visit my sites and contribute your knowledge and ownership of these great pre-1965 guitars. Definitely a connection between music and chess. IMHO
batgirl wrote:
I play ... and my Martin 000-18 flattop.
Sweet
My old Seagull has developed some structural problems and is almost unplayable. I just came into a little bit of unexpected money and I'm trying to talk myself into a Martin.
Anyway, I play guitar. Mostly acoustic these days because it's simpler and easier to just pick it up and start playing anywhere in or out of the house. As with chess, I'm not that great but really enjoy it. I'm also the best whistler I know. I can whistle most of the lead violin to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, for example. Or most of the lead guitar to Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath album.
