Which three instruments are your least favourite?

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
This is in response the thread which are your 3 favorite instruments,
so which are your 3 least favorite.

Mine are:
1. Any amplified/electric instrument, Bass Guitar at the top of list
2. Descant Recorder
3. Harpsichord
 

Montefalco

New member
I would have to agree with bass guitar, especially when played solo. Also agree with the recorder.
No. 3 would be the metronome (Ligeti's poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes is ear-shattering).
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
A most excellent question if I may so humbly say so.......Lets see now:

Electric Guitar(The Devil's Own Spawn) - But an amplified acoustic guitar I have no problems accepting. N.B.* Yes, I know, what about Pat Meth then? I have to draw the line somewhere :grin::grin::grin:

Harpsichord...Sounds of skeletons copulating on a hot tin roof! A gut strung Lautenwerk is more appropriate - JSBach used it frequently!

Banjo
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Bongo drums - nearly always played badly

Recorder - all that boredom at primary school

The triangle - standing there for hours - waiting

teddy
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
those of you picking on the recorder probably might be advised to listen to a recording where one is at least played with thought: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 (was it?) has two recorders and solo violin, played by the English Baroque Soloists, I can't fault the sweet sound. School recorder bands, yes, awful.

My three

1) the trumpet (though I love the cornet)
2) electric guitar (any variety)
3) the blasphemy box (much prefer the pipe organ)
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
those of you picking on the recorder probably might be advised to listen to a recording where one is at least played with thought: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 (was it?) has two recorders and solo violin, played by the English Baroque Soloists, I can't fault the sweet sound. School recorder bands, yes, awful.

I agree with you about the Treble Recorder but not the Descant that is for school children only :cool:
 

Contratrombone64

Admiral of Fugues
the skeleton comment is not original, Sir Thomas Beecham famously coined it. He also was guilty of saying "don't look at the brass, it only encourages them ..."
 

Soubasse

New member
Beecham had an awful lot to say (a lot of it awful, yes!) but he sure worked his way into the quote books. One of my (many) favourite Beecham quotes was his reply to being asked if he'd ever conducted any Stockhausen: "No, but I once trod in some"

Instruments I don't like, hmm.
- A badly played saxophone, or even a well-played one screeching away in free-form jazz stuff seriously grates on me.
- The voice as abused by screamo/death-metallers. About 0.5 seconds of that stuff is enough, after that, it sounds like the Cookie Monster trying to sing (trying being the operative word - in at least two senses of the word).
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
CT64,

It is so true about the brass when looking at them - And I with the Contrabass Trombone??? It can be positively lethal :D:grin::lol::nut:

Seriously, I restrain myself nowadays simply because I have nothing to prove. Besides, its so much more fun exploring vocal repertoire with piano and trombone and surprising listeners with a "new thing"...

@ GrandMeister Krummhorn: Yeah, I felt like 'attributing' a variation on Beecham's quote. When I was younger I enjoyed the Harpsichord, then, well, I really don't know what happened - I guess my ears got "raped" by "injustices" performed on the Harpsichord - And I have never recovered from the brutal shock of it........
 
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Dorsetmike

Member
Violins when scored as Mantovani used to awful, but otherwise OK,
The digeridoo never appealed (nor did spelling it)
Soprano sax doesn't do much for me.

I recall hearing the Clarinet described as "an ill wind that nobody plays good" attributed to Stan Kenton, for me it depends who is playing it and what is being played, as with many other instruments; for example the combination of Einaudi and piano has me reaching for the off button.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
It was once said that a gentleman is someone who can play the piano accordian - but doesn't.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I recall hearing the Clarinet described as "an ill wind that nobody plays good" attributed to Stan Kenton, for me it depends who is playing it and what is being played, as with many other instruments; for example the combination of Einaudi and piano has me reaching for the off button.


When I started with the Flute my first teacher asked me why I chose the Flute, I still don't know all these years later. I should have stayed with the Clarinet a much more versatile instrument, Obviously 'Stan the Man' had never heard Mozart's Clarinet Concerto or his Clarinet quintet:cool:
 
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