I can play the 'In the night garden' theme tune on a toy piano! What can you play on a childs toy piano?

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lol oh go on

DD's toy piano only had about five notes, so the options for improvising TV themes and the works of Elvis were limited but I could play Doe A Dear on her xylophone. Her friend had a proper xylophone from a music shop, tuned in a minor key, so that everything sounded like the incidental music from a crime drama.

i dare you too.

I can play iggle piggle's theme tune on the flute

Is it cheating, though, to use a real musical instrument?

yes, that's a bit too impressive.
you need to be limited to one octave, C major scale.

My ds can play Smoke on the Water on the ukelele!

DH & I can play Ode To Joy on childs keyboard.

I can play 'fur elise', 'minuet in G' and 'Morning' from peer gynt on dd's ELC piano

It'll be Carnegie Hall next, mark my words

I can play chopsticks. I can even do the duet bit

BDV (sorry - but I really had to stop myself typing BVM) my ds is determinedly teaching himself the ukelele. He has a book and a CD and is making excellent progress. I think. Not sure how you would tell. But it is certainly one of the best £12 I have ever spent, and there will be ulekekes under the Christmas tress of nearly all my friends this year. I suspect by this time next year I will have no friends left, but it's in a good cause!

Oh, and I can play Jusu Joy of Man's Desiring on practically any instrument you put in front of me including the spoons. Nothing else - it's a very specialized gift.

arf @ seekers 'specialised gift'

at needmores Fur Elise.

oh i see you're all joining in NOW!

i was sat here playing the elc keyboard at midnight the other night, and nobody wanted to join in.

only the first 20 bats or so Vanessa. And not the left handbit. The ELC piano only has 2 octaves on I think. Its diddy.

We could geta concert going

seeker - Have resolved to ask Santa for a ukelele. It might even wean me off MN!

And deeply impressed that you can play Bach on the spoons. Is it hard to find classical music arranged for the spoons - wonders about Scarlatti or Messaien - or do you arrange it yourself?

bach on the spoons? Please please video yourself and post it. This I must see.
Anyone play the comb and paper?

As I said, not Bach per se. Just Jesu Joy. And yes, I arranged it myself. Radio 3 are very interested - they want me for their "Great Works Ruined by Cretins" slot on Saturday mornings.

If you do ask Santa for a ukelele, ask him for some new strings as well - the ones that come with them are rubbish and frustratingly won't stay in tune. Changing them makes all the difference. And remember to specify the colour. Ds's is red, but the yellow ones are particularly fine.

I can play Que Sera Sera and House of the Rising Sun on the xylophone - does that count?

My daughter has a ukulele and thinks she can play the Bing Bong song from Peppa Pig on it. She can't. Pity me.

a hotbed of talent

My dh can play the tune to the Exorcist

seeker - Any piece of Bach (even if it is just one) on the spoons is hugely impressive. I look forward to hearing you on R3 and hope to be included in their first ever ukelele-only performance of Handel's Idomeneo.

I used to be able to play twinkle twinkle on dd's toy octopus with squeezable feet. But one of the notes has gone flat, so now everything sounds like Stockhausen.