Bonus points for a song that has a good part for that instrument.
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I dunno about favourite but Kamancheh sounds pretty lovely
I appreciate a good bagpipe. Especially when they share a lot of tonal similarities with violins like this nightwish instrumental. https://youtu.be/yOxGlXmPusI
oboe, cello, violin…
The hurdy-gurdy is so pleasant to listen too. I love the drone notes it can play.
Who doesn’t enjoy some good theremin
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.
I’m biased bc I played oboe in school band but it’s true, a really great sounding oboe goes totally unappreciated. I was asked to do the solo to “Kiss from a Rose” or w/e by Seal and that had probably one of the only mainstream music oboe solos. Sadly the singer went with a different song before the show.
Oboe was my choice as well.
Harpsichord. Its just such a nice and unique timbre
Hang drums sound beautiful
Classical guitar, here’s Nocturne by Chopin.
Sitar!
Ugh looooove me some sitar.
I love a good piano piece.
One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/zucBfXpCA6s
That was a lovely performance! Great pick, thanks for sharing it
Her Hungarian Rhapsody performance is my favorite!
Ooh… I will have to check that out! Thanks for the suggestion.
Just love a heavy well produced guitar riff. Might be a boring answer but that’s the one for me.
Sometimes stuff is just popular for a good reason. I love loads of different styles of guitar, but I think my favourite heavy riff is probably the chorus one starting at 2:02 in Saor’s Children of the Mist
Or maybe Flying Whales because, I mean, it’s Flying Whales
The intro to Power by KMFDM and the intro to Sold by Imperanon are two of my favourite riffs, but I love all kinds of heavy/death metal and industrial and hardcore punk rock and classic rock. Just gets my testosterone going. Makes ma ballz buzz.
I’m also fan of a particular type of guitar riff that I can only describe as “crunchy” with my limited music vocabulary.
The best example I can give is Spirit in the Sky. The lyrics are cheesy, but damn the guitars are fine in that track.
To this day, nobody knows how they got that unique guitar distortion sound in that song. It’s been long-forgotten, even by those that were at the session.
You might be thinking about a sound with a lot of distortion
Spirit in the Sky specifically is a fuzz running on a near-dead battery, so it’s a bit of an odd one. I think the broad approach to the sound is fairly popular though. Stone Foxes come to mind as an example
I feel like Moist does amazing crunchy but melodic riffs personally
Trumpet. I think it’s cause that’s the instrument I first learned music on in elementary school.
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
Gawd I love koto…
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.
I believe the song in Diablo is called “Tristram”. Excellent classical guitar song!
It’s also a really fun song to play. I used to know how to do the intro when I was younger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2evIg-aYw8
