5 instruments I DON'T LIKE!

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

What about you?

[@Helber_Gui]

Sax, de todos os tipos, muito agressivo e alto

[@Sandrine_Damfino]

I hate the sound of the saxophone. I hate the flute too.

[@lindaswope]

Chiara, I agree with Maryhall. The English horn played well is such a warm plaintive sounding instrument. I play oboe and English horn (and now, the harp too!) I always would seek for a dark round sound, and not a nasal sound, on oboe and English horn as well. It has to do with how you make the reeds, and how you project the air. I do love instruments. All instruments. I can't think of any I don't like.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Then I do miss the culture of listening to a good E. horn player!! Well done to you, the more I listen the more some particular timbres and frequencies annoy me! In a few years I'll just put up silence haha!

[@maryhall7915]

Oh Chiara!! The English Horn!?! Clearly you have never heard it played well. Your imitation shows exactly why you don't like what you have heard. Many Eng. hornists play with a pinched embouchure and yes it sounds just like your example. Many double reed musicians in America play with very loose lips to let the reeds resonate more, creating a big, lush sound. I do agree with you about the flute and piccolo.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Could you please send me a link with an American English Horn played well? ...so I can see if I was unlucky here in Europe or else I really do dislike the timbre!

[@robertw8225]

I love all musical instruments but the one instrument that I hate is the harp! plink plink plunk plunkitty plunk sproing splung splung plink plink plink !!! Of course I'm kidding, I love your impressions of certain instruments, so funny & entertaining. But it got me thinking, is there an instrument I dont like? I could'nt think of one! I play guitar, cello, drums, piano, tin whiste, didgeridoo (that one can make people laugh, RUDE ! ). Took me ages to master circular breathing! I wondered why I cannot think of an instrument that I dont like? Then it came to me, stretch some elastic bands over an old biscuit tin & I can entertain myself for ours trying to make it sound good. I simply love people who make music, especially the ones who have a sense of humour! 😎👍😁

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Awesome!!! And well done for circular breathing, it sounds freaking hard!

[@lisablythe3450]

Violin is my least favourite instrument. I could happily live without hearing it again, followed by harmonica, kazoo, saxophone and bagpipes.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

A lot of people agree with you!

[@robinmarks5638]

I'm not real crazy about horns. I think because they are so loud but I do love to hear taps played!

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Oh! I love horns! They sound so EPIC!

[@ayidas]

Haha I don’t have such strong feelings against any one instrument 🤷 I even enjoy the sliding sounds on the guitar. Makes it feel human ❤️

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

You're nice, but let's face it, some instruments are better than others (harp...harp...harp...harp...harp...!)🤣

[@HarpPianoCello]

I actually don't like the violin 😂 I am learning the cello for that reason. Violin, for me personally taste, sounds too squeaky. Cello is more human range so more soothing. I once went to Ray Chen playing one of the Violin concerto and can barely enjoy it. His playing is no doubt amazing but the sound of the violin stress me out and make me grumpy if I listen for too long. What else I don't like, flute is ok, but only in classical. ive listened to some modern stuff they do with flute and between the sound (supposedly mimic jungle sound), I can see the flutist spits everywhere under the light and Im like no thanks 😂

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Hahaha!

[@kuttelei]

1. accordion 2. bagpipes 3. violin (just awful) 4. sax 5. organ (church)

[@3762302]

I just wish the harp was more user-friendly in terms of having to save money for half my life to buy one, having a large instrument to carry around with a ton of tension so no bums on the way, needing a large vehicle to transport it, being so fragile, insurance, the most expensive musical instrument service in my country...but then again I love this instrument and people love to hear it at weddings, Christmas services and even if you make a mistake they don't care too much... On the other hand I was interested in the violin for a while too, bought one for a day's salary second hand made in the 19th century, took it to a violin luthier for the price of my harp's 3rd octave strings I could get the violin serviced in only a week, didn't take a large vehicle, or thousands of dollars to fix or buy, don't have to worry about levers / pedal limitations for pieces and only 4 strings to tune. Its also easy to transport...yet after a few lessons I still stopped and continued the harp until today... P.S. I well kept the violin as a hobby or if someone else wants to play it, but I guess an instrument you love to play will stick to you.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

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[@dahlrussell]

😂😂😂 Bagpipe! Argh!!! Piccolo! (Piccolo trumpet, too.) Organ!!! Electric guitar. Solo violin. Anything shrill, squeaky or too loud!!! But I like most instruments. I’m going to stick up for harpsichord. I really like it, and the history it evokes... Very similar to historic single action harp - blends well with it.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Organ??!!! Oh gosh I love it so much! It's the king of instruments!!

[@dahlrussell]

@@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470 🤣 TOO LOUD!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@CynthiaWithLove]

😂 I once saw a street performer, playing his instrument that he made out of junk and it had only 1 string. It was surprisingly entertaining😅

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Hahaha cool!

[@chrisperyagh]

I was once sat with a piccolo player on my immediate left, so I was directly in the firing line of it. After a while of high and loud playing from it, my left ear started making a low rumbling noise and then the hearing in my left ear just cut out completely as it had enough. It didn't recover until the following day. Piccolos are dangerous things to be in close proximity to when played at full tilt - they need to come with a government health warning.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Haha you're right!

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

I make it a rule to wear earplugs when practicing my piccolo at home. Unfortunately, that doesn't help the person sitting next to me. Though I will say that my piccolo cannot compete with a tuba for sheer volume (I tried once and lost badly) and the times I've been worried for my hearing have generally involved being too close to percussion or bagpipes, not piccolo.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

​@@lizziesmusicmaking😂 everyone should wear earplugs when near a piccolo player....deadly weapon!

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

@@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470 Tubas are worse. I got into a volume competition with a tuba player once. You couldn't even hear me, screaming ff high note or not.

[@bassethound1]

Well I’m a flute and piccolo player so there’s goes our relationship lol

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Hihihi....I still love you!

[@bassethound1]

@@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470 lol I love you too, I’ll play quieter

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

I actually play flute and piccolo out of your list of disliked instruments. My least favorite instruments: 1) hurdy gurdy I really dislike the scratchy timbre and I also don't like how little articulation and dynamics seem to be possible. And it usually seems to get played at one speed. 2) drumset Too loud, I'm scared for my hearing when I'm stuck sitting next to one. And this is coming from a piccolo player. 3) electric guitar A lot of the things people do with it are impressive, and it can be played in ways I find beautiful, but it's so often played too loud, with weird distortions I don't like, and is accompanying someone who's screaming more than singing. 4) Accordion. Just not my thing. Sounds wheezy. 5) opera singers who use excessive vibrato (especially slow broad vibrato) when singing fast stuff, such that what they're singing cannot be heard clearly. Not a Wagnerian soprano fan.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

...😂ooops!

[@beatem8940]

I hate the violin because of its high, squeaky sound. the crowning glory is violin and piano. I would only listen to that with great protest.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Hahaha!

[@mattobrien4849]

Electric guitar is clearly the only way forward.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Hahahaha! Definitely Matt, but only when well played😉

[@bennycoyac8327]

I don't like the piano, especially in an orchestra

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

...take that, half of the world!!!

[@Ted655687653]

I guess you like bagpipes 😮.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

😂kind of!

[@carolep.1645]

Oh my, as an oboe player who doesn't stink at it, it upset me to think you don't like the English Horn. You probably already know that the English Horn is the alto version of the oboe. If you play the oboe, you pretty much can automatically play the English horn with some adjustments. There are so many terrible oboe and English horn players out there. I've been in orchestras where the second oboe was so terrible that I was embarrassed to be in the section. Can you say, "Quack Quack" 🦆? Unfortunately that sound penetrates through everything and it can ruin the sound of the entire group. Perhaps you didn't hear a good one. Have you heard the solo from New World Symphony? It's so gorgeous. Listen to a good American orchestra. Sometimes the German orchestras have oboists and English horn players with really strange muffled sounds. No offense intended.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Your honest opinion, what do you think of this? is it well played? Because to me, the "quack quack" timbre is always there kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2G7Z5iYrcaFe68&ab_channel=AnnaLeonardi

[@gorelowjeff5054]

What is peoples obssession with the guitar. No thank you

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Agree!

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

I like acoustic guitar well enough, but I agree with you: why so many guitars? Not everything has to have a guitar. There's a reason that the instruments I've learned don't include guitar and probably never will. Though classical guitar is a bit of a different animal, isn't overplayed and I can imagine deciding to learn that. I dislike electric guitar most of the time, but I think that has more to do with how it is often used than anything else. Too loud, too much distortion, and accompanying screaming vocals along with an overenthusiastic drumset.

[@user-ct7wu9ie6n]

Guitar?🤮 Harpsichord after 2 mins?🤮 Kazoo?🤮🤮 Clarinet?🤮

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

haha! ...I love clarinet 😁

[@user-ct7wu9ie6n]

Yes, but ONLY if played well! Squeak! Squawk!🤣@@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470

[@user-ml3sz3mm5y]

Whoa, where to start with this? Sound-wise, the violin gotta take the cake. Unless played at the highest skill level possible when the virtuosity and the musicality tame the piercing sound, it's goddamn torture to my ears. As for ergonomics and the playing experience, the double reed family is the worst haha. So much hassle for THIS? Count me out for sure. I also don't like playing the flute. Yeah yeah they will tell you that you stop getting dizzy after a while, but not really - you just get used to it. There's a reason the flute players are a bit crazy lol. Some folk instruments I don't like too. I get it, tradition and heritage and whatnot, but they're just objectively bad. Like balalayka - three strings, two of them in unison, no sustain to speak of, no resonance, no nothing but the funny shape and the history. Why people even bother when there are so many better options? (actually, I know why and it's sad - it's way easier to make your way into a folk orchestra than to a symphonic one, and there's more of them. So, if you are a mediocre violinist at the conservatory, you might take the jump off the slippery slope and ensure your place behind the desk. There's no turning back, ever). Also, I don't like any instruments with a strictly limited pitch range (things like didgeridoo and jaw harp excluded, they're more of a meditation aid anyway). Like handpans - oh, you want that A# here, that's cute, screw you! These handpans all sound the same, too. Pan flutes are a hard pass, so are other diatonic-only instruments. The saxophone family deserves a dishonorable mention here, too - here's your two and a half octaves, take them and you're going to like it or else! Of course there's the altissimo register, but it sounds just like the piccolo lol.

[@chiarapedrazzettiarpatelie6470]

Very funny explanation!!