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Most annoying instrument (to your ears)?
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Then there's always the Fosterphone…
Gets my goat anyway… Hire a fair dinkum muso, why doncha pal
We could use the moola.
Gets my goat anyway… Hire a fair dinkum muso, why doncha pal
We could use the moola.
If ya gonna tie one on, go a Victophone instead
I'd agree with all of this, until I heard the French Horns in Beethoven's 9th symphony!
Then you'll love Peter Gabriels 3rd album. Also called "melt". Not ONE cymbal crash anywhere in sight, or sound in spite of playing "regular" arty pop songs. Not even hihats. Couldn't stand Cozy Powell either. He hit a cymbal as fast as he saw one, when playing...
FWIW reading all the posts, I consider the bagpipe to be the ultimate rock'n'roll REBELLIOUS instrument. You can take any other instrument no matter how well it's played, but bagpipe IS de facto instant rebellion. If you play that in morning in a dorm, let's just watch the reaction from people just waking up from it. You've never heard so much cursing and foul words at once, shouted out loudly. It even annoys deaf people..."that's when I reach for my revolver..." type of instrument.
Instant rebellion. Perfect punk and rebellious, mischievous instrument.
One thing. Most people I know can't stand more than one tune on bagpipe. It sounds "nice" at first, but then when the second tune comes, it's just faster, but in the same key (somewhere in between Bb and B) and the mode, mixolydian scale is the only one that is possible to play in one way or another over one and a half octaves range. And absolutely no dynamics! However, just as the trumpet, he cuts through any mix without even be turned up. That's why they use it on a) battle field b) solemn occasions as funerals etc.
People don't know it but after a short period of time they think "it sounds the same". And on top of the mixolydian scale in "almost-Bb" it's not even in tune with itself even there. The intonation or temperament range are of the old style which means you can't play it along to any other fixed pitch instrument.
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The instrument I've seen not mentioned here at least once, is the grand piano: Full range, any key, and temperamental intonation, tuning, and absolutely devoid of any possibilities of sliding, glissando notes, or pitch modulation like vibrato or tremolo. Of course, it should be tuned well, and the one playing it should be good enough. But I think this is the instrument where I have the most patience with when even small kids playing it, without really being able hammering away. Not any other instrument I can stand to listen to for long time...when beginners are hacking away...
Maybe that's a tell tale?
In tune, no pitch modulation, full range in octaves? And especially: Being able to play chords!
However, if we ask people from Asia, Africa, India they may very well loathe the piano!
Instant rebellion. Perfect punk and rebellious, mischievous instrument.
One thing. Most people I know can't stand more than one tune on bagpipe. It sounds "nice" at first, but then when the second tune comes, it's just faster, but in the same key (somewhere in between Bb and B) and the mode, mixolydian scale is the only one that is possible to play in one way or another over one and a half octaves range. And absolutely no dynamics! However, just as the trumpet, he cuts through any mix without even be turned up. That's why they use it on a) battle field b) solemn occasions as funerals etc.
People don't know it but after a short period of time they think "it sounds the same". And on top of the mixolydian scale in "almost-Bb" it's not even in tune with itself even there. The intonation or temperament range are of the old style which means you can't play it along to any other fixed pitch instrument.
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The instrument I've seen not mentioned here at least once, is the grand piano: Full range, any key, and temperamental intonation, tuning, and absolutely devoid of any possibilities of sliding, glissando notes, or pitch modulation like vibrato or tremolo. Of course, it should be tuned well, and the one playing it should be good enough. But I think this is the instrument where I have the most patience with when even small kids playing it, without really being able hammering away. Not any other instrument I can stand to listen to for long time...when beginners are hacking away...
Maybe that's a tell tale?
In tune, no pitch modulation, full range in octaves? And especially: Being able to play chords!
However, if we ask people from Asia, Africa, India they may very well loathe the piano!
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I think too, that instruments such as theremin, saw, glass harp, and instruments that has less harmonics, and complex overtones are subject to annoyance. How long can you stand to listen to any pure sine wave created from a synth or oscillator? Or from a tuner? It goes the same if it should be any instruments. Chords made in sine waves only drives me nuts within a split second...as fast as they're sawtooth or square I can listen to it a bit longer. Yes, even sawtooth...
No, I have Scots-Irish blood as well (mum's side of the family) and am a bagpiper as well.
Brass instruments are cool when played properly.
But I cannot tolerate when they play that "Free Jazz" nonsense.........
With hysterical horns screaming,wailing,honking dissonant cacophony thats just randomness based on randomness based on randomness based on.......
But I cannot tolerate when they play that "Free Jazz" nonsense.........
With hysterical horns screaming,wailing,honking dissonant cacophony thats just randomness based on randomness based on randomness based on.......
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As someone posted in another thread, "sometimes two horns honking at each other is just two horns honking at each other." It's not automatically brilliant.
