Most annoying instrument (to your ears)?

[marko57]

Electric bass, GHB, and trumpet here. All the haters are just mad that their girlfriends like to ask us what's under our kilt. "Your lipstick, later tonight."

Och aye!

 

[lokikallas]

Oboe. Followed by bagpipes.

 

[Iridescentone]

Oh darn. My GF is a classical composer and violist, and will be heartbroken to learn of this. See, she's from Eden, NY, the world, headquarters for kazoo production, and thought it was a beautiful, melodious axe.

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Better not let her know the kazoo sucks hard...don't break her heart.

 

[RoadRanger]

Hey, did anyone mention excessive bass slapping and popping yet?

 

[Radio]

Oboe. Followed by bagpipes.

Oboe = few overtones, everyone can tune to this thing, then put it away.

 

[Algo]

Trumpets probably.

 

[FilterFunk]

Hey, did anyone mention excessive bass slapping and popping yet?

If we're going by technique and excess, we have to include every instrument!

 

[ZenG]

Any YouTube video where a total noob is showing off his new bass and does a slap solo.

 

[Steve Dallman]

Soprano sax...if Kenny G is playing it.

 

[Korladis]

The harpsichord. It's like having ants in your shirt. pling pling pling pling
Gah, I hates it.

I also can't stand the harpsichord. It's simultaneously extremely annoying and also completely tedious to listen to.

Soprano and alto saxophone are grating to me most of the time. The point at which they took over as the main instruments in jazz (replacing the clarinet) is pretty much when I lose interest.

I would also say the piccolo snare. Awful.

The human voice is just the worst, though, at times. Specifically when David Lee Roth, Elvis Presley, or Axl Rose is singing. Or any modern country singer. I'd much rather listen to Yoko Ono. Then there's this guy:

 

[SimandlsButt]

Flutes in a non-orchestral setting.

Not much of a Jethro Tull fan, huh?

 

[boghurtgurule]

Bass guitar in general. Such a boring instrument.

 

[Charlzm]

Not much of a Jethro Tull fan, huh?

They are the exception that proves the rule.

 

[fjadams]

Okay then. I'll send Lefty and Guido over and they will convince you it would be in your best interest to listen to some Dickey Betts on pedal steel.

IF you like the pedal steel then try Buddy Cage from NRPS or Lloyd Maines with the Dixie Chicks, Don Helms with Hank Williams,

 

[fjadams]

Slap bass. If I'm trying to listen to a review of a bass or bass amp and all you can hear is trebly slapping then I immediately turn it off and list the player as an annoying mastubatory wankmeister.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

IF you like the pedal steel then try Buddy Cage from NRPS or Lloyd Maines with the Dixie Chicks, Don Helms with Hank Williams,

Like Don Helms. The others I'm not that familiar with. But I'll check them out, thanks.

 

[Jloch86]

A slightly out of tune guitar.