Every fucker in a band plays guitar. Yawn.
What's the best instrument outside of that?
My faves are:
Vibrophone
Piano
Trumpet
Every fucker in a band plays guitar. Yawn.
What's the best instrument outside of that?
My faves are:
Vibrophone
Piano
Trumpet
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
I love my stylophone.
Dot matrix printer
Hammond Organ
Lol @ 'synth'.
Its like saying 'percussion'.
How
is saying "guitar" any more specific?
Who said it was?
'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.
Has to be the cowbell
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
I second the trumpet
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.
A SAW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBRR4esvzY
^
^
^
^!
!
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.
non geeky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6YZBcxkNKI&feature=related
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
Everyboby Loves a 303!
Sudanese Hunchback Pornophone
CheckIt
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
I played Bassoon in high school
so it has a place in my heart
So Did I.
But swapped to the flute as it was easier to carry.