Of course you started with accordion. Electricity came much later

-tek

Ouch!!!
Nice shot Tek!!

51 as well and my first paying gig was at 16.

so the trouble makers are the youngers ones.

Hi Guys,
I'm 65 and still growing (round the middle!)
but that's ok!
I picked up my first guitar when I was 6. A nice lady taught G,C & D chords then I got a study book to learn.
I was playing pretty fair acc rythmn at
8 yrs. old. I play lead guitar,guitar bass,
mandolin,Autoharp, and keboard for the last 10 years. I have PSR2000 arranger. I know I'm over here amongst all of you synth musicions. But promise I'll behave!
Cheers,
Nobby

30 ....eek 31 in 16 days! ,learnt classical piano at about 6 or so ...Playing in bands for 16yrs or so got the pc music bug about 7 yrs ago .Quite chuffed to beat tek big up's to our more senior members you guys rock !

31... started as a DJ at age 8, played alto sax from 9 - 13, at age 14 bought a Korg DDD-1, at 19 I conned my way into owning an Ensoniq ESQ-1, then traded that for an Ensoniq Mirage.

First show in 1987 I opened for Run-DMC.

54 - made a whopping $8 for my first gig at age 16 playing piano iin a polka band!

Hehe, aj. Right after you comes M33 in and beats you by a year.

-tek

PS. Old people smell funny.

Well, I'm right up with you Nobby. Started on the piano at an early age, migrated to clarinet and sax in dance and jazz bands in my youth, played in a chamber music group after that and finally got to playing keyboards. But I wrote a music compiler for a mainframe computer way back in 1965 so I guess that makes me a pioneer in computer music. The mainframe didn't have a speaker so I tuned in the central processor on an AM radio. The processor ran at 150 kHz (yes that's kilohertz) so it radiated signals all over the AM band.