Greetings all!
New on the block, this seems a fun thread to join! So here goes.
As a nipper, I drove my mum gaga with a variety of home made "drums", played, for hours on end, in front of a blaring radio set. Later, my dad taught me some ukelele basics.
One birthday, soon after, got me my first "real" tenor banjo. The tuning was entirely different, though - so I had to start again from scratch. And this paid off, since I have been playing jazz for the next 25 years or so. For this reason, I consider tenor banjo my primary instrument.
My bandmates asked me to give guitar a go. But since I started with tenor banjo in the first place, I've always been (and still am) a crap soloist on six strings. Later still, I taught myself a bit of bass.
So the proper order should be:
1. - tenor banjo
2. - ukulele
3. - guitar
4. - bass
5. - drums
A few years ago, incidentally, I switched from acoustic to electric. And since fairly recently I own a modest audio home studio to make all those instruments come together.
I'm interested in more unusual musical utterances, too.
At one time, I had a 'bottle xylophone' (played with chopsticks) spanning two-and a halve octaves! And a huge jug used as bass (by blowing over the rim). I also tried to build a hammered dulcimer once - but I'm no good at all (and never will be) with tools, I'm afraid.
An instrument intriguing me these days is the hang (many clips on YouTube). And a digital USB windcontroller is still on my wishlist.
tnob