Harpsichord. Its just such a nice and unique timbre
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I'm big fan of pianos (but not all piano genres) and I have learned that I really like piano run through a phaser and doubled with a Japanese koto
Saxophone. But not always because it's smooth. Because sometimes it ROCKS...
...Or because it's crazier than anything you've ever heard!
Bamboo flute!
Native American flute.
There's nothing that makes me chill out and vibe faster after work.
A cozy EP, one that you can usually hear in jazz, fusion, and r&b.
An 8-string guitar with a clear heavy djent tone, like Meshuggah, Tesseract, and Animals As Leaders.
When I think of a classical instrument, I think cello - specifically this piece Shadow of Doubt by Yoko Kanno, where it has such a brooding tone and power.
Being a synthesizer nerd, I like those most, but they have such varied tones among them and even on the same synth; 4x Atlantis by Aphex Twin probably captures one of the tones I most love, and the entire "Orphans" piece hits much of the range.
I love horns in music, especially the trumpet. It's why I'm a big fan of Cake, they have a prominent role for the trumpet in a lot of their songs. The best has to be the trumpet solo in Italian Leather Sofa (starts around 2:10) but they have other great ones too.
Cake is such a unique band. Thanks for mentioning it!
Their covers are amazing for a cover junkie like me
Yeah, I love their covers too, and I'm normally not much of a cover fan.
I'm not normally a big flute fan, but the flute solo in Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull is fire.
Hammond B3. Mmmmm.
Accordion, dammit Accordion!
Pipe Organ
I would love to learn to play the organ if I had time.
Hang drums sound beautiful
Sitar!
The Cello, loved it so much that I started learning to play it at around 30.
Man, I love me some guzheng nowadays.
There's a YouTuber called Mo Yun who does wonderful guzheng music, including some frankly mind-blowing covers of popular songs. Every so often I just let her entire channel play in the background while I go about my day.
Oboe. Anything from the Dream Academy albums would qualify. It has a nice pure sound almost like a vocal.
In second place would be the sitar, or the Hammond Organ if someone is rockin out. The Peddlers, or Fanny would be good examples of excellent Hammond.
If you just keep it to the basic instrument drums probably.
If we are allowing it then a heavily distorted guitar tuned stupidly low. But is it the instrument or the various electronics that make the sound?
Just love a heavy well produced guitar riff. Might be a boring answer but that’s the one for me.
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The hurdy-gurdy is so pleasant to listen too. I love the drone notes it can play.
I love a good piano piece.
One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/zucBfXpCA6s
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Violin is up there for me, such rich notes and emotion can be pushed through it.
After that a didgeridoo played well is awesome. I like to play mine into the bath tub so I get the reverberation and can really hear it
Roland TB-303. It's the synth that launched so much electronic music. Examples are legion, but one of my favorites is Psychic TV "E-male:" https://youtu.be/o2U3joQ9oFI
Generally considered among the penultimate 303 examples are:
- "Higher State of Consciousness" by Josh Wink (https://youtu.be/NdaqXjDtXkQ)
- "Acperience 1" by Hardfloor (https://youtu.be/Un4CeV_l3pI)
I was just going to say synthesizer but if we’re being specific the TB-303 is the king, especially with some real dirty overdrive
My actual favorite is electric guitar followed by violin, and I'll gladly expound, but those have already been mentioned.
So for this comment I'll go with handpan drum. Those sound so amazing and soothing to me.
Damn I've been trying to find out what the hand pan drum was called for so long, thank you haha.
I would call it the 44 gallon xylophone
I really like the duduk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubg7AI81VsQ
The most well known piece is probably the gladiator music.
oboe, cello, violin...
Like as the main or only instrument in a song? Probably Spanish guitar. See "Vamo Alla Flamenco" from Final Fantasy 9. I wanna say Diablo 2 had a good Spanish guitar track too, but no idea what it's called.
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Drums in music. I always zero in on the percussion patterns.
Tell us one of your favourites so I can look it up
The first thing that pops into my head (because I recently watched it) is Chad Smith just winging a song by 30 Seconds to Mars. https://youtu.be/HMBRjo33cUE when he played it, he just felt the music.
A bonus song that I just love listening to because of the layers is like an opera heavy metal song called Awakening the Centuries - https://youtu.be/VvYRYCIAKZo
Here’s one I enjoy a lot.
I also recommend checking that whole album out. It’s great.
Holy shit I didn't know a hurdy gurdy could go that hard.
It is an electric one, so a bit of an advantage over wood and string. The drone string is also doing a lot of lifting. Drones make almost any instrument better
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Bassoon or oboe... Maybe it's the double reed?
El Camino Real by Alfred Reed has a nice oboe solo.
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