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Do you play an instrument/sing?

Personally, I'm a trombonist. Quite a bit of my audition is searching for something such that Joe Alessi sounds just the way he does when I actually see him at Carnegie/Avery-fisher. In other words, PHENOMENAL! Similarly, another part of it consists of listening to some brass heavy orchestral works, such as Mahler 3, Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Beethoven 5,Brahms 1,2,4, etc, Beethoven 3 (maybe slightly less brass-heavy), etc. Then I listen to some classic rock, just to sound how it deals with yet another part of the music that I listen to, but the initial two parts tend to be the more important.

Are you an instrumentalist/singer, and if so, how does it affect the way you audition equipment and/or listen to music.
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I play 2 Indian classical stringed instruments, rudra vina (archaic, ancestor of sitar family) and surbahar (bass sitar). It definitely comes in handy when I'm auditioning equipment - I bring along a CD of my teacher and know what it really should sound like.
They say you can tell painters at museums because they walk up to see the paintings from close range while non-painters stand back. Do musicians listen more closely? Kind of asks you to get into other people's heads....
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