For those who play instruments, what was your first instrument, do you still own it?

Drums - No
Acoustic - Yes
Bass -Yes

I used my Dad's Alvarez when I was young but I lost interest after 6 months or so. My brother has that old Alvarez now. Bought a cheap Fender acoustic when I decided to start learning again about 25 years ago and I still have it in the closet. A friend of mines son learned on it a few years ago

Mine was a Yamaha trumpet. My parents sold it when I was in college and not showing much interest in it. I really wish they hadn't. Now I just own guitars and a midi keyboard.

Alvarez Regent series acoustic guitar gifted by parents when I was 12. Still have it.

My first instrument was a viola when I was in fourth grade. It was a rental so it was returned after two years in the elementary school band.

My first guitar was a Takamine GX-200 in the early 1980s. Tak wanted to experiment with solidbodies in the USA market, so they designed a line that was ghost-built for them by Matsumoku. That little guitar was like a cross between a SG and a Soloist, an all-mahogany set-neck firebreather, and absolutely awesome for the money.

I gradually destroyed mine, unfortunately, learning how to rout, contour, fret, refinish, etc. during that 80s era of DIY customization. I eventually lost the DIY-molested GX in a move between apartments when I was fresh out of college. It was an absolute mess and probably glad it was no longer in my destructive possession haha. Here's what an unmolested one looks like ...



On a good note, we have a black Takamine GX-200 from the same era in the family today ... I found a clean used one when my daughter told me she wanted to learn guitar.

I was given a non-resonator 5 string banjo from a guy in a parking lot, who needed space in his subcompact to load a bunch sports equipment. It was a Sears instrument that I took to a local music store asking how I could learn to play it. The fellow sold me the Scruggs book and album, which got me started. My sister has it somewhere in her house. I've since owned 2 others and still play that third one.

Roy Clark acoustic guitar he sold on TV. (I might have it in the closet)

I tried and failed with it twice with it before finally succeeding with an electric.

The instrument that got me actually playing was a ukulele. It taught me multiple chord shapes which eventually translated over to guitar.

Sllvertone electric with amp n the case.
No longer have it.

Drums. It was a 1993 Premier XPK 5-piece with a 14 x 5.5 steel snare drum. For a lower-end kit, those drums sounded great and would stay in tune no matter what. I bought the kit from my best friend and, after about six or seven years, I sold it back to him. He kept them until the 2016 flood killed them.