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Pretty self-explanatory. What instruments consistently make your favorite songs or sounds? Or, if you play instruments, which do you find more fun to play yourself?

Personally, my top few would go to violin, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, castanets, and whatever the hell the whistling sound is here:

I love pianos and violins because of the passion and beauty they can put into things. Usually the most beautiful songs are composed with these instruments and have for centuries, and for good reason. I love acoustic guitars for really slow and often pretty solos, but I also love fast and passionate acoustic that is often accompanied with above referenced castanets to give music a Spanish-vibe. Electric guitars I like for pretty much the same reasons most everyone else likes them. There are tons of other instruments I love when I hear them, but usually I have no clue where to even start figuring out what it is, like the whistling I can hear in many songs I showed above. There are lots of sounds I like, I just don't know what they are, so I stuck mostly to what I know.

About the "Spanish-sounding" guitar with the castanets, perfect example right here:

The bass…oh my god the bass.

There's nothing more satisfying to my ears that the sound of either strong note or very smooth and slow rythm bass notes.

Listen to the beggining

Contrabass flute.
Because fuck you, that's why.

I can get into quite a few instrumental sounds, but among my favorites are the bass guitar, and the cello.

Well, I love bass guitar, and I usally crank up the bass quite a bit when listening to music.
Besides that, I've always loved the sound of piano.

Mayonaise

THEREMIN!

The most spacey instrument ever invented!

I'd say there's nothing better than the combination of guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and scratchy vocals to make the most badass, awesome music. But if I had to make an addition…

Motherfucking electric violin.

I love electric guitars (maybe I'm biased because I play one), but if we’re going into specifics, my favorite is the ESP Alexi.

She's a beaut.

I think ocarinas sound great. I have a tenor ocarina.
And of course I like guitars and pianos as well.

I'm a bassman.

I really love the distinct sound a sitar makes. I also love the theremin as much as Serious Business.

I love the Les Paul more than anything in the world. They just look so cool and sound so amazing just listen to this masterpiece and see what it can do:

Also again the look of these things are awesome just see for yourself:

i like guitars. it's hard to choose one favourite, but these three are something like unreachable dreams for me (since i'm a lefty ;_;):

caparison also makes beautiful guitars.
i like vocal cords too. vocal cords are great. and the vestibular fold.

Mayonaise

>mfw

I'm practicing playing the drums. Sometimes I use my sisters gutiar, but my fingers aren't dexterous enough to play it seriously

Trumpets

Pianos (because I play the piano), cellos, clarinets, accordions, bagpipes, gongs, vibraphones, tubular bells (or any other kind of bell), and organs.

For those not familiar with this, it's the Roland TB-303 synthesizer, an old analog synth from the early 80s. This little thing pretty much defines the genre of acid. It's essentially the Hammond organ of electronic music, in that everybody wants an original one and it's effectively useless for anything other than its signature sound.

Is the vuvuzela an instrument?

But to be honest, any instrument sounds good with the right conductor

As others have said before me, I am a bassman^max.

I've played standup since I was in elementary school, started electric 2 years later. Can't get enough of it, though hate "bass heavy" electro for the most part. I haven't sought much out so maybe it's just me but most of what I've heard is not structured, simple, musically boring however you wanna phrase it.

Meanwhile in jazz bass-land

I also love the sax, though I think that has something to do with my early exposure to Cowboy Bebop, specifically the song Goodnight Julia

KEYTARS, BITCHES. The only instrument I was halfway decent at. I was in a band and it was pretty fun to be the "keytar guy" while it lasted.

Here are the ones that I own:

The Yamaha SHS-10

And the Roland Lucina AX-09.

Bass, electric guitar, and piano. Never really thought much about bass until I started playing it, and now I can hear every bass note in my favorite songs. Iron Maiden's bassist is a god, and the bass has a more up-front nature in their songs.