The Many Musical Talents of Zooey Deschanel

Zooey plays a plectrum banjo

Indie darling, Zooey Deschanel chats with Esquire.com about her double duty in this weekend's (500) Days of Summer.
excerpt:
ESQ: What instruments do you play?
ZD: Piano and guitar. I can kind of play a little bit of ukulele and pedal steel guitar.
ESQ: Do you prefer one over the other when you're writing songs?
ZD: Well, I mainly write on the piano, because most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.
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