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What's your favourite non-guitar instrument?

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by Sonic_James_Doom

Every fucker in a band plays guitar. Yawn.

What's the best instrument outside of that?

My faves are:

Vibrophone
Piano
Trumpet

Sonic_James_Doom | 18 Apr '08, 15:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Synth

and Drums.


Flute...

when played in the 'yazz' style.


Synth for sure

I actually prefer it to guitar

..of course it can be used abysmally, like all instruments I suppose


quite like the

tibetan prayer horn


Piano

I used to have one in my house but my bastard parents gave it to my auntie, who never uses it. A Casio just doesn't cut it sometimes...


Rhodes organ


Piano, Drums or 'Cello

One of those three.


Marimba

4 EVA


Nice choice...

like the music from Badlands?


voice


my cock

lol


A good Fiddling

Ala Warren Ellis


theremin


stylophone

and no mistake


Hammond Organ

Lol @ 'synth'.

Its like saying 'percussion'.


How

is saying "guitar" any more specific?


'oooh

look at me, i know LOADS about synths and muzik and stuff, so i'm going to be all derisive about you saying you like them! cause i'm cooler than you! and that's my aim in life!'


Guitars are boring


Pedal Steel

always.


Synthesisers

Most definitely.

Other than that, I like hammond organs, farsifas, melodicas and, well, most things of a keyboardish nature, actually.

Besides that, I like mandolins (depending on how and where they are used.)

Finally, and I mean this seriously, I love the castinets.


drums, drums

drums


keyboard

slightly biased as i played for 8 years of my childhood.


bahahah

Modern usage of the term "electronic keyboard" typically describes a type of inexpensive sampler marketed to amateurs and children.


I love

listening to a good drummer.


Probably the non-Les Paul

although I do like non-Rickenbacker 330 as well


Cello

Or 'cello for the pedants.


Cello!

I need to hear more bands with cellos. Cursive on The Ugly Organ? Brilliant. Murder by Death? Ace.

I suppose I'd also better say drums, since I play them.


The Cogwheel Dogs...

..are well worth tracking down if you're a cello fan.


Drums or Keyboard


at the moment

saw


melodica

ftw!


SYNTH!


Oh now that's one out of the top drawer sir!

I'd completely forgotten the humble saw.


theremin

and tabor. preferably together.


Motherfuckin'

Tamboura y'all


i do love

trumpets (and most brass instruments in bands)
pedal steel


violin

cello
glockenspiel


banjo

unless that is considered a guitar


piano

especially upright ones. reminds me of school.


violin

amazing.


Viola>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cello>Violin

Trumpet, Baritone Saxophone and Celesta are also worth mentioning


glass harmonica

or musical saw


Keyboard

in particular my retro sk-1 :-)


Pink Noize


accordion


Finally, someone agrees with me

I was going through this thread thinking "why has no one mentioned the accordion?"

So I'm glad to see someone has, I only recently got my accordion and I adore it :D

Apart from that, I like a good theremin, and the cimbalom is pretty good, listen to A Hawk and A Hacksaw's EP with the Hun Hangar Ensemble for some pretty incredible playing!


Oh yeah and

marimba as in on Tom Wait's Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs


i actually just was listening

to a hawk and a hacksaw, whilst trying to fix my accordion strap when i noticed this thread. he's really talented with it and i just found out he used to play drums in neutral milk hotel.

i really want a theremin.


Bastard!

I wanted to be the pretentious git who was the first to mention the Cimbalom! Still Balazs Unger blew me away at ATP last December. I didn't know what the instrument was called then. You're right: his playing with Hawk and a Hacksaw is breathtaking.


YEAH!

MELLOTRON!
REACTABLE!
VIOLIN!


Reactable is

immensely cool, I agree


The Keys of Life...

Piano/Keyboard!!


Banjo!


the concertina

a tiny, more manageable accordion... easy to pick up, and possibly the loveliest saddest sound i've ever heard.


Viola, harp

and piano


Piano

Tenor saxophone
Glockenspiel


celeste

is nice


Double Bass

Because it's bare fun to play and ting.
But seriously.


Some of my favorites have already been mentioned

i.e., Fender Rhodes, Hammond (B-3), marimba, flute, double bass (which kinda is a "guitar'), cowbell, glass harmonica mellotron, saw and trumpet.

I would add these:

Tenor Sax
trombone
french horn
tuba
contra bassoon
Arp Odyssey
Moog Voyager
fender chroma
that keyboard that David Sylvian played, "prophet 6" or something.
Garage Band (it is a great instrument)
farfisa organ
fender rhodes bass keyboard
upright piano
Vibes
Tamborine
maraccas
castinets
vibra-slap
ratchet
jewsharp
claves
anvil
glockenspeil
tympany
gongs (big ones)
big ass bass drum
bagpipes
kazoo
slide whistle

and homemade instruments like Einsturzende's array of killer axes.

Best non-guitar musical instrument: Vox


sorry, I took every fucking instrument and the thread died

uh, Nurse With Wound has a song called "Creakiness" where they have cusotm made wooden squeaky door things- very cool-sorry I killed your thread man.


can i cast a vote for

the reacTable -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc

a remarkable synth.


i quite like the Ondes Maronet

a falshy keyboard ecochoe thing was one of the rarest instruments but now you can buy it


where from?!"!!

I want.


Cello

And/or the piano


Gamelan

And that thing where you have loads of wine glasses with different amounts of wine in and you play them to create weird unearthly pitches. Nice.


^

^


^

^!


!


That giant marimba

Made out of rocks that all four of Sigur Ros simultaneously play a tune on in a cave on their DVD.

And the guitar isn't boring. Boring guitar players are boring.


I never said the guitar was boring...

In the right hands it's spectacular... but everyone plays guitar in a band. It'd be good to have a band comprised entriely of the many ace instruments in this thread and no guitars.

Especially the thing in Kew Gardens just below...


kew gardens

there used to be this huge instrument made out of bamboo tubes of different lengths that you struck with a mallet in kew gardens. I used to play that for hours.

Last time I went there it was gone :(


hand claps

.


i wish

I could play the mandolin, or pedal steel. Alt-country-tastic!


violin

i don't know if i'm even good at it because i'm too shy to play in front of people, but it sounds good to me :D


me too

we should duet. Only with each of us staying in our respective homes so we kind of are playing together/in front of each other but not


i'm up for this

i'l be playing on Monday at 11.15-1.00pm, in my kitchen.


Violin

It's the one instrument I want to learn once I get a bit of money behind me.


i rather like

a tastefully employed accordion... banjos are good too, although they are rather guitar-like


Harp

is one of the few things that makes me wish I was rich...


The sound of my cock

slapping a wooden table.


these are quite nice

hammered dulcimer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjpYHhfRyI
novelty factor the theremin of course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYho56INKU
I love that my example videos are unfeasibly geeky, this is why they are not more popular instruments.


Theremin

Woooo eeee ooooo wowowowowo waaaahhhhhhh uhuhuhuhuh


Roland 303

Roland 808
Roland 909


the 303 is

the sound of god talking directly into your ear


drums drums drums

clearly!
and ukelele

oh oh and wooden tocks...that's all


Spoons.

But to cut it they need to be played really well.


oh and

Kazoo


Hammond organ

I'm so gay for Hammond


kaoss...

ilator!!!

kaossilator

kaossilator

fact the most fun one man can with his hands outside his trousers


All y'all Accordion lovin motherfuckaz

need to get onto motion trio

www.myspace.com/motiontrio

particularly the tune 'stars'

Its like Steve Reich composed for accordion! Boom!


church organ

cello

guitars arnt boring