List your instrument and the favorite piece you played on it, individual or group.

Baritone/Euphonium - Mars concert band style

Piano - Fur Elise

Flute - take lessons and manage to play for about an hour each day (who needs tv :) ). Working on Hindemith's sonata right now.

Favorite piece? If I had to pick one, it would be Bach's B-minor sonata.

I play the Violin and Viola and also sing

My favorite Violin piece is Beethoven's Spring Sonata and my favorite for Viola is Bach's Brandenburg Concerto # 6. My favorite Vocal work is Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

I play keyboard and I find I've got just enough technique to play some of the Bach chorales. I am working on #104, 108, and 110. My favorite of these pieces is #10, "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir." Which means "Out of deep distress I cry to you."
Just to pick some favorite pieces at random: Verdi's Requiem, Bach's Sonata for Solo Flute.

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I used to play French Horn, but gave it up many, many years ago. But I work in the orchestra world, as a manager.

I play the alto saxophone and have been for 2 years, I play in a jazz band and school band.I would have to say my favorite piece is "eye of the tiger".

Used to play classical guitar in college. Not very well.

I enjoyed the Vivaldi trio I was in.

Percussion. That's me -- the fellow who hung around with musicians.

I've since switched over to guitar, and found I have a knack for stringed instruments. I'm fairly okay with the mandolin and 2 types of banjos, and could actually play a sitar fairly well (20+ years ago). I can also handle the violin, viola, cello, harp and balalaika, but wouldn't go so far as to say I can play them well.

Flutist here. I play as often as I can; a lot of chamber music, flute choir, concert band--whatever I can fit in versus the demands of my day job.

A single favorite piece? Right now I would probably pick the CPE Bach A minor unaccompanied sonata; ask me tomorrow and the answer might be very different.

I play pretty much everything but my favorite is the Bassoon. I can't say I have a favorite (I have some that I HATE.) I like anything with a good bassoon line!

I do love the Lord of the Rings Symphony by Johan de Meij. Great double reed writing!

Professionally, my voice is my instrument, but I mess around (with varying levels of success) with the piano, guitar, banjo, violin and recorder. It's too hard to pick a favorite piece, but I love singing Bach.

My handle should be a hint for my instrument. I play euphonium and trombone. My current favorite playing is in a Civil War reenactment band. I arrange music and produce critical editions of historic pieces for wind band.

My favorite solos are: Paul Creston Fantasy for Trombone, and the Bourgeois Concerto for Euphonium.

My favorite pieces by instrument are: Hindemith Symphony in Bb (trombone), Holst Hammersmith (euphonium)

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so evidently you learned the secret of a good embouchre and a
focussed tone. I tried for months and then switched to
clarinet. But the flute will always remain my first, unrequited
love.

I play viola. My favorite piece is either the 2nd or 4th movement of the Telemann Viola Concerto in G Major

My first instrument was the Piano. Later in life I took up the cello and most recently the viola. I have played in a handbell choir - loved that. I have also sung quite a bit. I did get to play the cello a couple times in a community orchestra/choir annual concert. That was really fun. I am not very good, and the most of the music was fairly easy - for the cello anyway.

In the last year or so I have not played or sung anything. I used to attend a church with a vibrant and diversified music program. The church went through one of those phases when people start leaving, the new pastor was not working out and things fell apart. So sad. I don't have a venue to play anymore and therefore the motivation lingers. Also my belief structure or rather non-belief structure has changed dramatically.

I would say that strings are my favorite. You get an appreciation when you attempt to play an instrument.

Cello and viola da gamba. I enjoy music written for multiple cellos.