What is your favourite instrument and why?

[G.W.K]

What is your favourite instrument and why?

G.W.K

[ksnmohan]

The Piano of course - because it provides the widest range of 7 1/2 Octaves or even more (only second to the church organ) of notes.

Prof Narayanan
Chenai, India

[shingo]

Piano, the only one I can play, and the one I most enjoy listening to. This will probably be a controversial comment but I also see it as a kind of microcosm of an orchestra providing the whole range of tones and sounds in the one instrument.

[pianogeek_cz]

Leaving piano aside as the obvious choice, the very close 2nd place contender would be the viola. In fact, I plan to buy myself one for Christmas...
I just love the viola sound, as simple as that.

[sevencircles]

I just love the viola sound, as simple as that.

Agree, heard  William Primrose´s best recordings today.

prefer Viola to the Violin too bad that so few pieces are written for the instrument

Beethoven wanted to become  a violavirtuoso I believe.

[thalberg]

I voted for violin.  Their sound is just so beautiful.  I would have voted for piano, but I'm tired of the piano after all these years.

[gyzzzmo]

First: Piano (duh). You got your own symphony thus you're independent.
Second: Cello. No need to discuss this instrument, nothing sounds as beautiful as thiis instrument

gyzzzmo

[pianochick93]

First: Piano, just because of the range and possibilities.

Second: A tie between cello and flute. I'm a flautist (not a very good one, but I'm getting there...) and I love the tone of the flute, however, cello is just beautiful.

Anyone know of any pieces that have only piano, flute, and cello?

[mcgillcomposer]

First: Piano, just because of the range and possibilities.

Second: A tie between cello and flute. I'm a flautist (not a very good one, but I'm getting there...) and I love the tone of the flute, however, cello is just beautiful.

Anyone know of any pieces that have only piano, flute, and cello?

Hey pianochick93,

There are lots of works written for these three instruments alone. Is there a particular work you were thinking of? There are a few Haydn trios, some Mozart trios, and I think some of the Brahms sonatas for piano, violin, and cello have been transcribed for piano, flute, and cello. Anyway, there is much more than what I have mentioned - so like I said, any particular composer?

[pianochick93]

I was more thinking of things that are nice to listen to, because I don't know any cellists.

No preference over composer, Brahms and Mozart are good though.

[cincy2]

My second choice after piano is classical guitar. My husband studies it. He has a beautiful spanish instrument that has a tonal palette that would make a Bosendorfer blush. Not much volume of course but he can take his instrument with him when he travels! I don't envy him for the frequent string changes however.

[thalbergmad]

My favourite is the Banjo.

It is just so versatile.

Thal

[G.W.K]

I suppose you could vote for your favourite instrument AFTER the piano. I shouldn't have added that...

G.W.K

[gaest]

Piano, of course!

But for second place...  definitely the oboe.  I played the oboe for years and through college, and there's not much that can match its haunting tone and vibrant individuality.

Third place would go to the cello, with its gorgeous resonance.

[quantum]

Aside from the piano.  I would say the organ, for it's vastness of sound and tonal capabilities.  The clarinet too.

[schubertiad]

I like the dulcet tones of a drum kit.

[pianowolfi]

Aside from the piano..................errrm........long silence.......... A fantasy instrument that allows you to pull every sound you dream of out of the air

[allthumbs]

My favourite is the Banjo.

It is just so versatile.

Thal

I agree, who can ever forget the banjo/guitar duet from the movie 'Deliverance'. 


allthumbs

[starpianist]

(1) Piano, of course.
(2) Violin- that's kind of because I play it...
(3) Cello- It has a pretty wide range and can sound like a violin if you play it really well. Like Lynn Harrell. I was listening to him on the radio, and in one of the "high note" parts, it almost sounded like a violin or viola on the lower register.

[indutrial]

What the balls is a claranet?!?

For me, this is a tough question to answer, because great masterpieces are composed for all of the instruments and there's pretty much amazing players for any of them. Even the banjo has guys like Bela Fleck doing unreal things on the instrument.

While not quite my favorites, I tend to favor cello and bass clarinet. Both have great ranges and have attracted some really bad-ass composing in the past 100 years. Off the top of my head, pieces like Benjamin Britten's cello suite no. 1 and Hindemith's cello sonata, not to mention crazier works by Ligeti and Xenakis make that instrument shine. The bass clarinet is a big deal in jazz and free improv, and players like Anthony Burr and Henri Bok have made great use of it.

[andyd]

Piano & guitar, but I'd love to have one of these installed in my dream house:

[rute]

For playing I like the piano, acoustic guitar and flute (bisel). For listening I enjoy all the strings instruments like mandolin and others. The cello is the instrument that most impresses me. In another live for sure I’ll be a cello player 

For studding music theory, and appreciate the erudite music, I think the piano is the best. The piano is a very complete instrument, for beginners and for professionals.

[madgun2]

I like the piano best=) It is a fantastic instrument!! Who has so many posibilities... But I also think Trombone is an extremely cool instrument=) It has a intresting and roe sound

[thierry13]

What the balls is a claranet?!?

Are you stupid or can you really not identify what is a typo and what's a word?

[danny elfboy]

You forgot the harp in your poll ! 

[allthumbs]

I guess the results are no surprise since this is a piano forum.

[kiwi_bd]

I guess the results are no surprise since this is a piano forum.

agree....LOL
That's really a bit strange to ask this question in a piano forum

[andric_s]

I like the dulcet tones of a drum kit.

I'm pretty sure you're joking, but I think drums might really be my favorite instrument!  They are so direct:  hit it and it makes sound.  None of those troublesome "notes" to worry about.  I was born to be a drummer, but my parents wouldn't have the noise.

Aside from the piano..................errrm........long silence.......... A fantasy instrument that allows you to pull every sound you dream of out of the air

Sounds like you should look into a synthesizer!   Seriously, I wish I'd started learning to program one a long time ago, because it does exactly what you describe!

[pianogeek_cz]

...Did I say viola at some point further up this thread? Well, had a few lessons already... GREAT fun.

[jazz-piano]

My favorite musical instrument is piano because it is an orchestra I can play with my fingers and I can also sing while I play it.

[aewanko]

i voted for violin because i plan to buy it for my birthday. Menuhin inspired me to listen to more violin recordings

[indutrial]

Are you stupid or can you really not identify what is a typo and what's a word?

Whether I'm stupid or not doesn't take away from the fact that you're an overly hostile dickless lunatic. Go get a punching bag, spraypaint the word 'jazz' on it, and bash your empty head against it until you're too mentally damaged to type stupid things on this forum anymore.

[dan101]

I think this forum will probably give you mainly piano votes. However, I have a soft spot for another obvious choice; the human voice.

[Essyne]

bagpipes (don't shoot me!!!)

i don't know why - - - they're just FANTASTIC!

[pianochick93]

bagpipes (don't shoot me!!!)

i don't know why - - - they're just FANTASTIC!

They can be nice to listen to. But I think they'd be a little loud up close.

I remember when I was in kindy, we had a bagpiper come and play for us, then we got to try. Surprise surprise, I couldn't...

[indutrial]

bagpipes (don't shoot me!!!)

i don't know why - - - they're just FANTASTIC!

One of my favorite sax improvisors (jazz and otherwise), Paul Dunmall, is a ripping bagpiper on the side. Sometimes he brings them into group improv settings and the results are generally pretty excellent. One recording that stands out above the rest is a trio disc that he did with a hurdy-gurdy-ist and a drummer. The first track was a long drone improv with the pipes and the hurdy and it is downright haunting in its sheer level of brood.

[Etude]

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[indutrial]

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Want... so bad...

The keyboard or the goatee? 

[Etude]

The keyboard or the goatee? 

Haha!  I'm a bit too young and non-bald for that sort of thing.   
But yeah, basically the only thing this keyboard is missing is a coffee maker.  It's way out of my price range though so...

[indutrial]

Haha!  I'm a bit too young and non-bald for that sort of thing.   
But yeah, basically the only thing this keyboard is missing is a coffee maker.  It's way out of my price range though so...

I'd love to hear technological toys like that keyboard being used by musicians who are more creative and less cheesy than guys like Jordan Rudess and others of the prog-metal ilk. For all the talent he has, I've always found Rudess' ideas to be just, well...ball-sauce, the perfect keyboard equivalent to the amazing-yet-lame guitar pyrotechnics John Petrucci peppers all of their lousy songs with.

I'm quietly praying that isn't one of those forums that isn't loaded to the gills with Dream Theater fanboys. Watching this video reminded me of how much I couldn't stand that ridiculous faux-symphonic mess, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (which he plays a bit of at one point in this), that DT did a few years back. Bleeeccchh... Final Fantasy-type fanfares do not mix well with rock and metal. I also hate that archetypical Dream Theater sixteenth-note accenting pattern (3-3-3-3-2-2) that has become a huge cliche in their crappy music. Of course he busts out some of that crap also.

[Etude]

I'd love to hear technological toys like that keyboard being used by musicians who are more creative and less cheesy than guys like Jordan Rudess and others of the prog-metal ilk. For all the talent he has, I've always found Rudess' ideas to be just, well...ball-sauce, the perfect keyboard equivalent to the amazing-yet-lame guitar pyrotechnics John Petrucci peppers all of their lousy songs with.

I'm quietly praying that isn't one of those forums that isn't loaded to the gills with Dream Theater fanboys. Watching this video reminded me of how much I couldn't stand that ridiculous faux-symphonic mess, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (which he plays a bit of at one point in this), that DT did a few years back. Bleeeccchh... Final Fantasy-type fanfares do not mix well with rock and metal. I also hate that archetypical Dream Theater sixteenth-note accenting pattern (3-3-3-3-2-2) that has become a huge cliche in their crappy music. Of course he busts out some of that crap also.

You might want to steer clear of "The Oddessy" by Symphony X  then.    
(no pun intended... wow)

I still find it amazing that whole orchestrations can be planned and played just like that (up to 16 different sounds mapped to any specific notes you want, and velocity dependent sounds that only play if you hit the keys harder!)

[Etude]

Oh, and not that it really interests me THAT much anymore, but I used to think about the idea of performing Cage's shorter pieces for prepared piano (the Sonatas and Interludes don't really do it for me) and considered the problem of changing preparations from piece to piece... but with this  thing they could all be sampled into the Oasys and to change the preparation all one needs to do is change the patch.  That is, if the Oasys has enough memory for all those samples.

[concerto_love]

Even I'm only 145 cms tall, I love my tuba!!!! ^^ I love piano and cello too >.<... Will learn cello next year.

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[naughtyprincess]

flute ^^

it has a beautiful sound~
i've only juz begun my flute lessons for 3 months,
it's rlei not easy to breathe properly....
totally outta breath!!!


can i know wat's the difference between a violin and a viola???

[pianochick93]

i've only juz begun my flute lessons for 3 months,
it's rlei not easy to breathe properly....
totally outta breath!!!


can i know wat's the difference between a violin and a viola???

Don't worry, I've been learning flute for just over a year, and I still can't do the whole breathing thing either.

And a viola is bigger and makes a deeper sound. (I think...better check with someone who knows more than me)

[nillerbabs]

Well, my answer was the trumpet. Obviously, the piano is my absolute favourite - or else this message would be in the trumpet forum. I play the piano myself, and a little guitar, but if I was to play another instrument, it'd definately a trumpet - or a saxophone. Unfortunately, the saxophone wasn't in the poll. But I just love the sharp, jazzy sound of a trumpet - and the sweet creamy sound of a saxophone. One of my friends just bought a completely adorable, fantastic vintage sax from 1961. It plays unbelievably - and so does he. So we're just runnin' around playing lots of jazz, and his sax... Sure does the job all right. Definately my favourite instrument next to the piano.

[eddtheguy]

I choose them all, I can't stand just having ONE instrument, I could manage listening for a few songs but i guess it is just the colour of music, it is like comparing black & white and the full spektrum. But if i had to choose then I would say the jazz flute or the sax or spannish guitar. ofcourse i like piano but even sometimes i get annoyed at how it feels like it needs another sound for me to enjoy it properly. Hey, maybe one day I'l have 10 different sounding pianos to play at the same time lol, can't wait till that day

[general disarray]

P.D.Q. Bach's "left-handed sewer pipe."

[rc]

P.D.Q. Bach's "left-handed sewer pipe."

This?


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[concerto_love]

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