Instrument Collection 2021

It's finally here... a video where I show you my ENTIRE Instrument Collection!
This year I thought I'd take a slightly different direction and give one *quick* fact about each instrument I own. Hope you enjoy 😊😄

~~ Luke Pickman (InstrumentManiac) ~~

Instrument Collection videos through the years! 🎺🎻

Music Used:
Sunny – KODOMOi
Silky Thoughts and Peace of Mind – FortyThr33
Swing – Peyruis

#InstrumentCollection #InstrumentManiac

[Phippsta]

So you're still to get a Bari Sax, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Euphonium, Tenor Horn, Flugelhorn, Contrabassoon, Cor Anglais, Timps and Harmonica then I see lol!

[NOLJAK]

Awesome collection and this has to be the best one yet better than the rest!.
Compared to your instruments and their brands, here are some of mine!
C Flute: Jupiter
Soprano recorder: Yamaha
Oboe: Yamaha
Bb Flat soprano Clarinet: buffet crampon Bb12
Bass clarinet: selmer bundy
Bassoon: selmer bundy (Wood)
Alto saxophone: Yamaha
Tenor saxophone: Yamaha
French horn: Yamaha
Trumpet: Yamaha
Cornet: Yamaha
Straight horn tenor Trombone: Yamaha
Tenor Trombone witch F attachment: Accent
Plastic trombone: (colored blue)
Euphonium: Yamaha
Tuba: Yamaha
Percussion kit: pearl
That’s all my instruments I could list in terms of brands!. I hope you liked it.

[sativumcoalho]

So last year you had 69 instruments, and today you have 79, that’s an impressive difference! You’re impressive, Luke!!

[Timzart]

I'm retired now, but you lived my childhood dream of getting and playing so many instruments. However, in my teenage years through to my twenties, I had dreams of getting a good grand piano because I grew up with such a junky upright, on which I taught myself to play, since my parents did not have a lot of money and would not pay for lessons. Now in old age I have a Roland digital piano I love, because it stays in tune.

Back to instruments...my best eBay find from a few years ago is a $53 Bundy (by Selmer, not the Chinese one!) nickel flute from about 1982 that is like new, because the owner started in the 5th grade, didn't practice much and within a year quit. Something was terribly wrong with the headjoint, but I had other headjoints that fit.

Anyway, the Bundy flute is a work of art among less expensive student model flutes of that era (1970 to 1980s) because of the quality of craftsmanship, and durability/design of the mechanism. A student of Jeanne Baxtresser, former principal flutist with the NY Phil, told me that Jeanne used to get her Bundy (which she started on) out for her students and play it, and it was indistinguishable from her Haynes w/Lafin headjoint. (She used Cooper before Lafin.) Now that I have my own Bundy, I can say the mechanism is slightly clunkier or noisier than a good professional flute, but it works very well, and makes my Gemeinhardt (my first flute) feel like junk. I have a good flute also, the one I eventually bought after I sold my Haynes to my teacher, the principal flutist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. So, it played on without me.

Bundy flutes were also made back into the 40 or 50s I think, when one of the Haynes brothers designed the embouchure hole for Bundy, which looks kind of squarish like a Powell, compared to the oval of the Gemeinhardt. If you're looking to buy a Bundy though, get one of the models from the 70s or 80s. I don't like the quirky old model with the sharp-edge tone holes.

When I was young, and switched from clarinet, I got serious about flute at one point and headed to Europe to study. I wanted to enter the Geneva Wind Competition in the early 1970s. An American named Paula Robison won on flute in 1966, and it launched her solo career. She was on TV all the time, LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER. I thought if I could win or place high, I might get a position teaching at a small college, and be able to forego auditioning for orchestras or going for a PhD. In my nightmares about orchestral auditions, I'd always make some mistake in Volière or Classical Symphony (the two excerpts they're going to ask at any professional orchestra audition), and the judges would be shouting NEXT, and I wouldn't even make the finals. I got over all that pressure by switching careers while I was in Europe. That fixed things. I never auditioned for any professional orchestra. However, several years later I was invited by an old composer friend to debut his flute concerto in NYC. So I brought my flute out of the closet for a while.

Anyway, whether you're an aspiring flutist with little money, or someone looking to buy their first flute cheap, a Bundy by Selmer that has been restored or is in lightly used condition is a good choice for the body of the flute, although be aware you will need to get a new headjoint cork for it, if it hasn't been recently redone. Sometimes a flute headjoint cork can shrink and gap in as little as a few years, and then the flute will sound bad, like the low notes will just disappear. But once you've got that decent flute body, pads all closing properly and in good condition, the next thing you'll need if you love the flute is a new headjoint. A headjoint is essential in optimizing your sound, and that means finding the headjoint that plays like magic for you, complete with full low notes, ability to tongue rapidly, and ability to sound high D with ease (for more serious flutists). A search for the right headjoint is what you should spend time on, if you don't have money, or even if you do have money. Try all brands and styles, starting with the reasonably priced ones. Who knows, maybe a stock headjoint might work great, better than a $6000 Lafin. I think Lafin sold his style to Brannen. Twenty years ago, you used to have to travel to Germany, to get one made for you.

I just looked up prices and the new Powell flute costs $10, 000 now. Wow, that's a lot. But there are dozens of great brands. Galway plays the cheaper extruded Muramatsu, the soldered tone holes being the more expensive. He liked that model better and it is more durable. Solder gets old, and fails. In the old days, it was Haynes, Powell, Lot, or Hammig, with the first two being the big ones, especially after Rampal changed from Lot to Haynes. But these days there are so many well made flutes. Again, the headjoint is more than 90% of the sound of the flute. The size and shape of the blowhole, the uncutting (if any) all determine the sound, even more than type of metal -- nickel vs. silver vs. gold.

[H-HLL_NAH]

As a bassoon player, I’m so glad you’ve got one 🥹

[CaioB-ntlh]

I wish I had this much instruments. It is just something about the challenge of learning how to play, usually when I come home I am covered in homework and also I have to prepare for the exams, but the only thing that makes me not lose my spirit are instruments, just learning how to play the instrument makes me extremely happy, when my fingers are bleeding from playing on the string instruments I go and play on wind instruments, when it becomes hard to breathe I go and play on key instruments and finally when my fingers stop working properly I go to play on percussion instruments, playing instruments just brings me joy, I don't care if I don't like the sound of the instrument the thing that I like in instruments is learning how to play on it.

[legdig]

I thought the instrument in the thumbnail was a rifle and was like "I suppose instruments of destruction count"

[FluteGirl-jdsu]

People were making fun of you for playing flute?!? Boy, don’t listen to those guys. Always be yourself. There are plenty of male flute players, some of them I’m close friends with and they are really talented! I even met some of them including Ian Clarke, such a nice guy! James Galway is a male flute player and it is one of the most amazing flute performers I’ve ever heard. So don’t listen to those people who make fun of you for being a guy and playing flute. Always be yourself :)

Fantastic collection you have! I don’t have as many instruments you have but I have two flutes: one Yamaha and one Powell. The Powell is my primary flute with open holed keys and low B natural key. Of all the flutes I’ve played, Alto flute was the hardest because I have short arms XD I tried playing clarinet until I realized my friend gave me a 3 1/2 inch reed instead of 2 inch so it was really difficult to play and many people wanted to play Clarinet because of Squidward, true story. I was originally going to play saxophone in 6th grade but everyone else wanted to play saxophone because they wanted to play jazz. I’m glad I chose flute because it was a perfect fit for me and I learned it was one of the hardest instruments to perform so I’m glad I was able to learn something that many said was difficult. If I had to choose a brass instrument that I’ve always wanted to play, it would French Horn. Just the sound of it is so beautiful, especially in a chapel or empty chamber. I even learned a Thomas and Friends tune on the French horn and it was fun to transpose and learn. I love it :)

[clANAnett]

this is such a cool collection!!! can’t wait for the grand opening of the “InstrumentManiac Museum of Instruments” 🤩 loved hearing the history and stories behind how you got some instruments! casually goes to a pawn shop to use the br and comes out with a french horn.... 😆

[lordmauriceortizlagartera]

OMG!!! You are the epitome of my instruments addiction 😆

[nerdymoose]

Might be late to the party, but here is my instrument collection

Keyboard (Alesis)

Soprano Ukulele (Mahalo)

Guitar (Oscar Schmidt Washburn)

Mandolin (Alvarez)

Banjo (Savannah)

Accordion (Hohner) (its a 72 bass) (I did have a kids accordion, but that one is crap)

Musical Saw

Washboard

Spoons

Jaw Harp

Tambourine,

Clarinet

Kalimba

Djembe

Melodica

Recorder

Irish Whistle

three recorders

about 5 kazoos

harmonica

steel tounge drum

violin (its being rented)

Otamatone

Desk Drums

Egg shaker

Rainshaker

and last but not least, a vibraslap.

That's all of the instruments in my collection.

[augustoantunesdasilva]

He becomes more of a maniac as each year passes!

[aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie]

4:18 Haha, that makes me glad I picked it up early on in my musical career! But the tradeoff is that now I'm trying to learn oboe and it's also very hard haha. Your collection is an inspiration to me! My collection already feels big but yours absolutely dwarfs it, I can't wait until I can get my hands on as many instruments as you have.

[OneEyedCman]

I’m also from Minnesota, choo choo bobs was a special place

[ph_musiclab]

I'm glad I'm part of the select group of 5 people who watch this

[marjohnsmusings]

I am an instrument addict too and I thought I was high maintenance until I saw this video.
I can now relax because you have me beat hands down.

[terrynewson]

I have a violin, a trombone, a trumpet, a tuba, and a French horn, I need a viola, a cello, a double bass, a guitar, castanets, a drum kit, a xylophone, a triangle, a tambourine, a flute, a piccolo, an oboe, a clarinet, a bassoon, and a saxophone!

[shiftk]

wow. out of my mind.😂not doubt why your songs was so beautiful😘😘

[jeremyedowd]

I enjoyed the facts and seeing your collection. :-)

[noorshmara]

I actually used to use a wooden Clarinet from Selmer when I was in Middle School. It worked REALLY well.