What is your favorite Instrument besides Bass?

[OnTheDownLow]

For me it is a Fender Rhodes.

I know the general aspects of making chords on a piano and can play some, however I love whenever an actual pianist gets behind a Rhodes and starts laying it down.

It is an instrument that could work in almost any setting if used properly. I'd love to have a late 60s or early 70s one someday.

What is your favorite instrument besides bass?

 

[And I]

To play? Guitar. To listen to? I'm not sure I have one. So much depends on the player and the song. Here's one you may not expect: oboe or English horn. When played well, they sound exquisite! When played poorly though? You don't want to be in the same state...

 

[OnTheDownLow]

To play? Guitar. To listen to? I'm not sure I have one. So much depends on the player and the song. Here's one you may not expect: oboe or English horn. When played well, they sound exquisite! When played poorly though? You don't want to be in the same state...

I can appreciate a good English horn. I meant instrument, either play or listen to.

 

[Jefenator]

I would say drums & percussion. Underrated for difficulty - to play well.

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

Keyboards, synthesizers, especially a phase modulation synth of my own design. Also, Mellotron samples. Awesome sounds..

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

I can appreciate a good English horn. I meant instrument, either play or listen to.

Cor Anglais? Got to ask because I thought those were closer to oboes. There's a period in the X-Files were the Cor Anglais sound gets used a lot, I like it, very melancholy, really helps the atmosphere of the shows when it's used.

 

[Passinwind]

Tenor sax to listen to, guitar and keys to play.

 

[Mediocrity Man]

Cello

 

[5StringBlues]

Trombone

 

[OnTheDownLow]

Trombone

I played Trombone all throughout school.

 

[FilterFunk]

Keyboards, synthesizers, especially a phase modulation synth of my own design. Also, Mellotron samples. Awesome sounds..

To play...^this. Using a synth's parameters to create sounds that didn't exist before is endlessly challenging and so very cool.

To listen to...sax and piano.

 

[5StringBlues]

I played Trombone all throughout school.

I wanted to but they put me on trumpet in 6th grade so they could move me to tuba in 7th.


Big kid curse......

 

[Patrice B]

To play and listen: drums and keys!

 

[FilterFunk]

Trombone

I could listen to Fred Wesley groove on trombone all day!

 

[5StringBlues]

I could listen to Fred Wesley groove on trombone all day!

Like you read my mind.

 

[Killing Floor]

 

[Killing Floor]

Stylophone is pretty awesome too.

 

[mini-milli]

To listen: fiddle
To play: mandolin
I like bluegrass and don't have the space or money for a nice stand-up bass.

 

[CallMeAl]

I was a trumpet/music Ed major, so I've tried about all the band instruments. These days I play more guitar than anything (including bass! )

 

[megarat]

Add me to the synth and Mellotron club. I have an electronic music goof-off station with a Eurorack modular synth and a Memotron M2d, and it's vertiginously fun