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And why? Not an instrument you already play. Pick something else.

I'll start.

Saxophone, so I can climb the rooftops and play my neighbours some cheesy sax porn solos of the eighties.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are precisely two instruments on this world I would try to learn:

  • the bag pipes

Because, to my knowledge, it it the most annoying instrument known to humanity. It's loud, it's screechy, it's haunting, it's everything hateful in a music instrument and yet it is so damn epic sounding.

  • the hurdy gurdy

Silly sounding name for an instrument capable of sending shivers down your spine.

It is also ridiculously cumbersome and unless you know what it is, the basic reaction to it is wondering if a piano, an accordion and a jack-in-the-box had a threesome and nature decided to create the musical instrument equivalent of the platypus.

I like this instrument so much I created a character for a story that is a necromancer bard, that conveys spells through the music of the hurdy gurdy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To learn to play the hurdy-gurdy, you must also learn how to repair the hurdy-gurdy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was I skillful enough, I would build mine. My favorite type is the large, cello-type body, with the characteristic deep tone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They're very cool but reading about the maintenance scared me away lol

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