I remember when I was very very young and my hearing range was from here to the moon and back, I remember getting those chalk board goose pimples on my arm and neck whenever I heard a LIVE banjo performing, or tried to play it myself. However, not on any record, or tv show did it annoy me even once.
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Most annoying instrument (to your ears)?
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You can skip buying or learning how to play a bagpipe, if you want that "ugly" sound. An electric guitar, run-of-the-mill effects and you're done:
The only thing wrong with this one, is that it is in tune. Bagpipes uses slightly off skew "old" tuning. And it may very well be that out-of-tunes that makes people go bonkers.
The only thing wrong with this one, is that it is in tune. Bagpipes uses slightly off skew "old" tuning. And it may very well be that out-of-tunes that makes people go bonkers.
This. Something decidedly creepy about pan flute, even if played by a virtuoso. That wheezy, unvarying timbre somehow makes every tune sound banal, and a warbling vibrato just compounds it.
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we have it easy compare to every classical instrument that take dedication to have a pleasing tone and play well enough... and let's not forget the cost of those instrument ... so yeah because of that we have a lot of people putting the barre minimum on a cheap instrument through an expensive amp
Sounds like a huge swarm of bees. Dont think it qualifies as an instrument but it sure is irritating
Anything that has ever come out of Kanye West. Hes a BFWOS (Big &^%$#* Waste Of Skin)
+1 to Yoko
Bjork.
Bob Dylan or Eddie Vedder singing.
+1 to Yoko
Bjork.
Bob Dylan or Eddie Vedder singing.
Hate all kinds of crappy bands that use this little flute and violin for the ultra gaudy "celtic" touch (hate it even more in 6/8). Lots of these ugly bands in Spain. So tasteless, so commonplace, such cheesy obvious lyrical content, so annoying I want to puke...
I knew from reading the thread title bagpipes were going to take a major hit in here and as I expected, they did. As a bassist AND bagpiper I have to say they are music to my ears (yes,
properly tuned and played of course!) but recognize they are pretty much in the "either love 'em or hate 'em" category. To each his own of course, if you hate 'em, so be it. Now, if
vocal chords are considered an instrument, I would strongly agree with someone who earlier mentioned Yoko Ono!
properly tuned and played of course!) but recognize they are pretty much in the "either love 'em or hate 'em" category. To each his own of course, if you hate 'em, so be it. Now, if
vocal chords are considered an instrument, I would strongly agree with someone who earlier mentioned Yoko Ono!
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Bagpipes are meant to be played on a battlefield, not in a "rock" band. On a foggy morning you're on the line with your buddies loading your musket and you hear the bagpipes and snare drum approaching in the distance. You can't see them yet, but you know that that sound means there's a few hundred crazy Scottish Motherf***ers out there with 2-foot bayonets on the ends of 5-foot muskets about to charge you, you know they also carry swords in case it gets too close for guns, and you know that those guys wake up pissed off just because that's who they are. They wear skirts and are firmly secure in their masculinity because they are good at killing people who want to make something of it. Bagpipes = Death Coming For You
I hate the Dropkick Murphys.
Also, my answer is the accordion.
I hate the Dropkick Murphys.
Also, my answer is the accordion.
