Most annoying instrument (to your ears)?

[japhy4529]

I know it's been mentioned already, but it bears repeating - saxophone, but only when played over rock music. I just can't stand it. I love listening to saxophone in the context of jazz music (e.g. Coltrane, Bird, etc.) but it annoys me to no end to hear cheesy sax played over a rock track. It actually makes me angry. Haha

Also, what's up with the triangle? Are there any examples of this "instrument" being played well?

 

[Fat Freddy]

Yoko Ono's voice.

Not sure if that counts as an instrument though.

An instrument of torture?

 

[BigEarl]

The Ichigenkin (one-string Japanese instrument, sort of like a diddley-bo) of any of the stringed Asian instruments. Foreign to my ears ...and MOST annoying!

 

[Fat Freddy]

Also, what's up with the triangle? Are there any examples of this "instrument" being played well?

I was the triangle KING in kindergarten

 

[bnolsen]

 

[marko57]

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.

In WW I the Germans called the Scottish Black Watch regiment, "The ladies from Hell" because they came at them bagpipes blaring, kilts flying and bayonets mounted.

 

[Genomatic]

Out of tune violin

 

[bnolsen]

ooooo i forgot.... pop music where you can hear autotune on the vocals. makes me want to break #$@^

 

[Norwegian Bass]

This voice!! She's right; I can't handle her! It's like an ice pick into the pain center in my brain! Song sucks too, disco -ish wanna be funky , "dead" funk ,pop sh!t.

 

[SteveCS]

With few exceptions, a little harmonica goes a long way.

About 40m at last attempt...

 

[Fat Freddy]

About 40m at last attempt...

A new British harp chucking record!!!.....

 

[Tom Bomb]

The end, this is. I only just made it

I'm gonna go all zen on youse now and scribble - it's the unplayed instrument that troubles me the most…

mind you, some operatic compositions are pure torture.

 

[ColonelZulu]

 

[KevInDaBassment]

Steel guitar...just no lol

 

[maturanesa]

Theremin

 

[bassestkkm]

For you recorder lovers out there

 

[bassestkkm]

And for everyone else

 

[noeinstein]

About 40m at last attempt...

Bada boom!

 

[Volunteerk9]

Hate bagpipes?! WTH? Am I the only Scots-Irish descendant here? Lol. A good bagpipe player can give me goosebumps. It is definitely an instrument that cant be practiced quietly - not only do you know that you messed up, but your neighbors 2 miles down the road know as well.

 

[bearhart74]

ooooo i forgot.... pop music where you can hear autotune on the vocals. makes me want to break #$@^

autotune vocals make you want to fart?