Keys. Badly. Oboe for long enough to learn to hate oboe. No, the fingering isn't the same as the clarinet or sax, which is what that WX-11 uses, but at least sax fingering is logical.
That's a great looking room kb. Most important piece of "gear" in there, that chair. Every studio needs a comfortable chair. My studios chair blows which is why when the wife is outta town, the gear comes upstairs: Did you win a body building contest or something? What's with the gold Lou Ferrigno statue?
That chair's gone. FINALLY. It sucked. It was supposed to be my wife's office chair but the space she moved into provides turnkey furniture and since my awesome leather monster got left up in Seattle I've been using it under duress. I've had a damn Aeron C on my to-do list since 2009. Makes a crap-ton of difference - I've discovered I can sit there mixing (or writing) for 12 hours straight with no complaints. When my daughter was born the gear room was the only one that hadn't been elevated to 80 degrees and it had the comfiest chair. Thus the following photo: >Did you win a body building contest or something? What's with the gold Lou Ferrigno statue? That is the most awesome film festival award EVAR. That's my "Golden Ogre." My understanding is that the Oklahoma Horror Festival uses a bunch of trophies left over from the local high school's wrestling team, which over-ordered like crazy. Thus, when you win, say, "best sound mix" for some goofy little short film you hammered out three or four years ago, you get THE MOST AWESOME TROPHY IN THE WORLD. I mean, he's wearing ear protectors and a cup. Goofy little show I worked on this year was nominated for an f'ing Emmy but nothing beats my Golden Ogre. I even encourage films I work on to show at the Oklahoma Horror Fest just so I can get more of them.
That's a great grin kb, that chair has never held such amazing cargo. I sit on a swivel stool in my studio and it sucks. I just tolerate it for some reason. When I started my new position, they gave me a sizeable stipend for office furniture, which of course I spent on anything but office furniture. Wish I had gotten a nice chair, extremely important for the reasons you mention. That Ogre is bad ass.
Aeron chairs, yo. There's a reason they have 'em in the Met. http://www.sit4lesscertified.com/products/Clearance/Aeron-ch...