What Musical Instrument Annoys You The Most And Why

Any saxophone

A gently strummed acoustic guitar. It just sucks. I hear it at the beginning of a song and I know I can skip it.

Piano. I don't mind it in popular music, but hate it in classical music, it's all clanging and clattering noise.

Bagpipes

I don’t mind baritone sax, but alto and soprano are like fingernails on the chalkboard.

I grew up with my dad playing Charlie Parker and John Coltrane and god that stuff is awful. Tenor is beautiful sounding though.

Bagpipes and saxophone I can understand as being annoying, but acoustic guitar or classical piano? Do you people sucker punch strangers who smile at you the wrong way?

Harpsichord

R6 They don't leave the house

Flutes; it's the high pitch. They are fine, when used sparingly. The music, in TV shows used flutes to express the childlike innocence and virginal characters. It is so irritating.

Kazoo

R7, I love the harpsichord and Baroque music.

Bagpipes are considered a musical instrument? I thought they were meant to keep wildcats away while roaming the moors.

I know it's not an instrument, but mariachis. When I'm at a restaurant with them, I tip $5 for the group to move on.

The groaning, lugubrious sound of the organ—it’s usually hideous.

The piccolo

I don't like the sound of acoustic guitar, either, especially when someone tunes one. Reminds me of my brother. He was not kind.

The armonica. It can drive you mad.

[quote]I love the harpsichord and Baroque music.

Then you are welcome to it.

Harpsichord and steel drums. Loathe.

Clarinet, as a (former) player

Didgeridoo.

Indigenous wind instrument or a tree that was minding its own business that got turned into an annoying sound maker?

Once in a great while, I can briefly tolerate an alto flute. Briefly.

The rest can be jettisoned into a pit of fire

As someone who played alto and bari sax in concert band, marching band, and jazz band and bassoon in wind ensemble, orchestra, and small ensembles from sixth grade all the way through college, I love them.

The fingerings are the same across all saxophones. But it took a bit to get used to playing bari, because I came from alto, and with its deep resonance, it felt like it was rattling my skull the first few times. And because I'm a shorty, I had to develop a bit of endurance when marching it. But I love it, and it's my favorite saxophone I've played. Hands down.

I'd LOVE to play a bass and contrabass sax, and contrabassoon (oddly, we didn't have a contrabassoon in college, but didn't really have anyone to play it, though I'd have gladly doubled before I ascended to principal).

That said, it annoys me that violin is SO fucking overrated. A violin is a lovely thing, but it's not that interesting to me. I can't think of a less interesting or overrated instrument. The triangle is more interesting. But SO MANY PEOPLE play it, and I couldn't care less. Boring, boring, boring.

Here's a favorite bari moment from one of my favorite pieces. We played it in high school, but I was on second alto at the time. It's a riot and a lot of fun to play, and hear.

Four-way tie between harmonica, accordion, clarinet, and soprano sax. I’d add the harpsichord, but only for baroque music, because I like it when it’s played funky.

[quote] The (h)armonica. It can drive you mad

I luv wailin’ on me ‘armonica.

I’m sure I’d drive you violently insane R17, because I play a style called blues harp which can rub some peoples’ nerves raw.

R23. That's just awful, awful, awful, awful

The violin or any other such as a solo instrument is like nails on a chalkboard to me. However, when played in multiples within an orchestra, it is my most favorite musical sound. StrinG - no! StringS - yes, yes, YES!

R20 - Duke Ellington's "Jump For Joy" clarinet solo, Jimmy Hamilton. Incredible playing!

This thread begins and ends with cor anglais.

Duelling banjos!

A rusty squeezebox.

- Salieri

My neighbor is a very talented pianist and cellist. I will GLADLY walk on tenderfoot so I don't disturb when he is practicing. Every so often he likes to bring out a drum machine to do some beats and either the sample or rhythm is so loud and boring it is excruciating. I would gladly pay my sexy, talented neighbor money to practice jazz on the piano and leave the drum machine to a professional. However, practice makes perfect, and if I can hear him he can hear me, and I'm sure I've done something annoying in the past. Live and let live.

Drums.

R25 Sounds like you have indeed been listening to the armonica. Careful! It'll do that to your mind.

^^ I thought “armonica” was a typo. My bad. I should’ve checked on the word before posting.

Is there a difference between fiddle and violin? My mom(who played violin) said it was in the way you played a violin that it became a fiddle. Anyway I hate the fiddle and anything associated with bluegrass music.

And for the people who dislike violin, no live for Stéphane Grappelli? His stuff with Django was great.

I kinda dig the skin flute.

Consider yourself lucky, R29. Whenever I’m gang-raped by hillbillies, “Yakety Sax” is played!

The penis. No matter how hard I blow into one I can never get it to make a sound.

R6 Too many crappy singer-songwriters running around. If you're strumming basic chords I'm not interested.

Baritone and alto sax are great, can't stand soprano. Soprano sax is screechy.

Ukulele.

Pan flute gives me subclinical depression.

Like Zamfir?

The ocarina:

Electric guitars often just sound like unbearable noise to me. I am not a fan of heavy metal music.

The recorder: an instrument in name only.

Country music singers’ voices. The twang. The affect. The excessive vibrato.

Drums played badly by public drum circle jerks Bass guitar out of beat that fucks up the funk Out of control keyboard players riffing on while I dream of the gentle lute player as he greets me at the garden wall

[quote] Saxophone

I hate those brainless advertising men who use shirtless saxophonist wearing jeans to equate to sex.

I like it when its used with subtlety.

[quote]Is there a difference between fiddle and violin?

Whether or not your parents were brother and sister.

[quote]The ocarina

Fuck you, R44!

The calliope reminds me of dirty filthy carnies.

Another vote for the flute; ALWAYS goes sharp.

Cowbell!

R39 = Roland Turner

Jews Harp is ridiculous

In the right context the theremin is great, but in the wrong context it is torturous.

r57 gives me good vibrations.

R57 Paper Cranes, one of the worst bands ever, featured a theramin player.

Good one, R58.