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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Sat here watching a film with a really good musical score and I've realised I love the sound of French horns.

What's your favourite sounding musical instrument and why?

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Cant choose just one...some of the best musical scores have an array of em

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Cant choose just one...some of the best musical scores have an array of em "

Called an orchestra? Lol!

But out of all of them which sound gives you little prickles on your neck?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As I play French horn it will have to be that.

I love the way it sounds. So beautiful to play too.

Cali

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To the original poster. John Williams writes some amazing film scores and seems to love the French horn. One of my favourites is Jurassic park theme.

Cali

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"Cant choose just one...some of the best musical scores have an array of em

Called an orchestra? Lol!

But out of all of them which sound gives you little prickles on your neck?"
Think you mean goosebumps? Lol. The violin if i had to choose one

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I like the clarinet, theres a busker in leicester and she plays it and its lovely. I used to love the accordian as my grandad used to play it and get it out at christmas, but there are lots of buskers(not proper ones) that just play the same little bit constantly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just love acoustic guitar

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"To the original poster. John Williams writes some amazing film scores and seems to love the French horn. One of my favourites is Jurassic park theme.

Cali"

He does write some good stuff but do you think it all has a similar feel? Like you can tell it's one of his pieces? My favourite film score is from Dances With Wolves by John Barry, very impressive and lots of French horn. Also one of my favourite films.

By the way, if you play the French horn you must have lips of steel! Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd have to pick guitar cos i play guitar. Another good one is a hurdy gurdy, they make amazing sounds. Google it if you've never heard it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pink oboe

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By *ickiemintMan
over a year ago

Somewhere NW London

Su just LOVES my pink oboe... Rich

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to play the French Horn when I was at school. I wasn't that committed to it though... I even managed to leave it on the bus once !!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Cant choose just one...some of the best musical scores have an array of em

Called an orchestra? Lol!

But out of all of them which sound gives you little prickles on your neck?Think you mean goosebumps? Lol. The violin if i had to choose one "

Ok, goosebumps. I prefer prickles though! Lol. One violin or lots of them together? Very different sound but both great in their own way.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'd have to pick guitar cos i play guitar. Another good one is a hurdy gurdy, they make amazing sounds. Google it if you've never heard it. "

Is that the one you have to wind up or is it something from the middle ages!

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By *tingomurphyMan
over a year ago

Hayes

Anyone can get a good tune by blowing my trumpet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'd have to pick guitar cos i play guitar. Another good one is a hurdy gurdy, they make amazing sounds. Google it if you've never heard it.

Is that the one you have to wind up or is it something from the middle ages!"

Yeah its got a handle which turns a wheel across strings, the wheel acts like a violin bow on the strings and creates a wicked sound.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Do you play one?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Do you play one?"

I've had a shot of one but i don't own one. Its about the only instrument i don't own lol.

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By *r Stagger LeeMan
over a year ago

torquay

Liking the ukulele at the moment after recently rediscovering Eddie vedder's ukulele songs.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Liking the ukulele at the moment after recently rediscovering Eddie vedder's ukulele songs."

You must love the Israel K version of 'Over the Rainbow' then?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Liking the ukulele at the moment after recently rediscovering Eddie vedder's ukulele songs."

You need to check out the ukulele orchestra playing the shaft theme tune on you tube, its awesome!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love the theramin (made my own a few years back) and most woodwind instruments, except saxophone which I think is too harsh a sound. Also, can't beat a good bit of fretless bass.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Love the theramin (made my own a few years back) and most woodwind instruments, except saxophone which I think is too harsh a sound. Also, can't beat a good bit of fretless bass."

The theramin is a lovely instrument, also if you have the right sax player and the right music behind it sax can be amazing! Shine on by pink floyd with dick parry playing sax is one of my favourite pieces of music.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Liking the ukulele at the moment after recently rediscovering Eddie vedder's ukulele songs.

You need to check out the ukulele orchestra playing the shaft theme tune on you tube, its awesome!! "

Yep, it certainly is! Just checked it out and it was a great surprise!

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By *r Stagger LeeMan
over a year ago

torquay


"Liking the ukulele at the moment after recently rediscovering Eddie vedder's ukulele songs.

You need to check out the ukulele orchestra playing the shaft theme tune on you tube, its awesome!! "

Heard some of there stuff, definitely an interesting choice of covers.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Love the theramin (made my own a few years back) and most woodwind instruments, except saxophone which I think is too harsh a sound. Also, can't beat a good bit of fretless bass."

I'm not a fan of the sax as it's a strange hybrid. Love the Cor Anglais, my favourite woodwind.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Liking the ukulele at the moment after recently rediscovering Eddie vedder's ukulele songs.

You need to check out the ukulele orchestra playing the shaft theme tune on you tube, its awesome!!

Heard some of there stuff, definitely an interesting choice of covers.

"

They are a great band, always just have a laugh on stage while still playing some top class music.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Banjo lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My Banjo lol "

Don't snap your string....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone can get a good tune by blowing my trumpet"

soooooo true lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the tenor sax - can be haunting

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By *illycarrolCouple
over a year ago

n/cle on tyne

gotta be the saxaphone from dave sanborn to the late great clarence clemons form springsteens E STREET BAND sexiest instrument going

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Pat Metheny's Pikasso 42 string guitar...a thing of beauty !

Also love the sound of the saxophone, tenor and alto, mainly.

And a muted trumpet always sounds beautiful in the right hands (Miles Davis's hands, mainly )

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Music is a very important part of my life and always has been - I love and play classical music including opera but I also enjoy contemporary music, Rock, R n B, Jazz, Swing, Pop etc. So depending on what I am listening to, what mood I might love the violin, cello and piano or it could be the saxophone and guitar. Then again I love percussion instruments - so it is difficult to answer this one in a brief statement.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Music is a very important part of my life and always has been - I love and play classical music including opera but I also enjoy contemporary music, Rock, R n B, Jazz, Swing, Pop etc. So depending on what I am listening to, what mood I might love the violin, cello and piano or it could be the saxophone and guitar. Then again I love percussion instruments - so it is difficult to answer this one in a brief statement. "

I thought u did very well .........

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"Music is a very important part of my life and always has been - I love and play classical music including opera but I also enjoy contemporary music, Rock, R n B, Jazz, Swing, Pop etc. So depending on what I am listening to, what mood I might love the violin, cello and piano or it could be the saxophone and guitar. Then again I love percussion instruments - so it is difficult to answer this one in a brief statement.

I thought u did very well ......... "
Thank you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The dinner bell

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By *ursevampsWoman
over a year ago

bucks

i played the viloin for seven years when i was at school nothing classical then playingn piticato on a viloin and making such sweet melodies on those strings gorgeous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love the bagpipes, must be something to do with ancestry.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Love the bagpipes, must be something to do with ancestry."

People seem to either love them or hate them. Marmite of the music world!

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset

The saxophone does it for me.

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"Love the bagpipes, must be something to do with ancestry."
Me, too - there is something very haunting about a bagpipe being played on the grounds of a castle. Ancestry!!

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


" The saxophone does it for me.

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It is such a sexy instrument, isnt it

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

Sax for me too....would love to be able to play it

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"Sax for me too....would love to be able to play it "
Go and have some lessons, it is not hard! It is hard to become very good and unique in your style but the basics are not difficult.

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset


" The saxophone does it for me.

It is such a sexy instrument, isnt it "

Yes it is, was only playing

Hazel O- Connors - Will You,

earlier on.

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By *ublimeshag_ukMan
over a year ago

Oldbury

The trumpet - the most amazing sound when gods like Gillespie or Baker start playing what's not there and between the lines

More modern the drums again on a jazz tip Oscar patterson or Steve Reid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Clarinet and I'd like to play like Artie Shaw or Benny Goodman.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I play diatonic harmonica, or blues harmonica, sometimes called "The Mississippi Saxaphone"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything which plays trad jazz

Off to see Barber,Ball and Bilk in December so you know the notes that float my boat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cant choose just one...some of the best musical scores have an array of em

Called an orchestra? Lol!

But out of all of them which sound gives you little prickles on your neck?Think you mean goosebumps? Lol. The violin if i had to choose one "

When I was learning to play the violin it gave everybody goosebumps, but I think they were the chalk scraping on a blackboard kind of goosebumps, not the 'Oh my God that boy can play' kind of goosebumps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" The saxophone does it for me.

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I have to confess to not knowing that many sax pieces but I remember hearing Jean Michelle Jarre's Last Rendezvous years ago and that is one of the most hauntingly beautiful tracks I have ever heard, even without its tragic back story.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I adore listening to the violin.

Favourite classical piece is four strings. I close my eyes and I'm away... And not away with the fairies before anyone comments

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to be the guitar for me. I've been playing for 30+ years and in numerous bands. It's such a touch sensitive instrument, you can play the same.3 notes in so many ways depending on what mood you're in and how you hit the strings..

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"I adore listening to the violin.

Favourite classical piece is four strings. I close my eyes and I'm away... And not away with the fairies before anyone comments "
I love the concerto for two violins by Bach, Bruch;s violin concert and Mendelson's - but the the haunting sound of the cello sends shivers down my spine, too

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland


"Has to be the guitar for me. I've been playing for 30+ years and in numerous bands. It's such a touch sensitive instrument, you can play the same.3 notes in so many ways depending on what mood you're in and how you hit the strings.."
I love both, modern and classical guitar - and yes, it is a very sensitive instrument which can express so much emotion.

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By *toneblueMan
over a year ago

Southampton


"Sat here watching a film with a really good musical score and I've realised I love the sound of French horns.

What's your favourite sounding musical instrument and why?"

I love the French horn too, so atmospheric with its 'over the hills and far away' tone.

Try Wagner's Das Rheingold, the intro has eight French horns representing the river currents, the way it builds from nothing to a frenetic climax is incredible. Until the singing begins, I can't abide the operatic style and have to stop it there, lol.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Sat here watching a film with a really good musical score and I've realised I love the sound of French horns.

What's your favourite sounding musical instrument and why?

I love the French horn too, so atmospheric with its 'over the hills and far away' tone

Try Wagner's Das Rheingold, the intro has eight French horns representing the river currents, the way it builds from nothing to a frenetic climax is incredible. Until the singing begins, I can't abide the operatic style and have to stop it there, lol."

What is it they say about opera? 'It ain't over till the fat lady sings'. Definitely the case with Wagner. I think the best Wagner production I've ever seen is the one with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd! I know, I'm a pleb!.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I agree with theramin. I keep being tempted to make one.

I also love string instruments, playing both classical and more contemporary pieces.

I'm listening to a lot of Rondo Veneziano lately, which I love.

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset


"I adore listening to the violin.

Favourite classical piece is four strings. I close my eyes and I'm away... And not away with the fairies before anyone comments I love the concerto for two violins by Bach, Bruch;s violin concert and Mendelson's - but the the haunting sound of the cello sends shivers down my spine, too"

Many a good tune, played on an old Fiddle!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love the harp, when I close my eyes I just get totally lost in the sound.

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset


"I love the harp, when I close my eyes I just get totally lost in the sound. "

I think Heatwaves - Boogie Nights starts off with a harp playing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wife said blue veined flute.

* cReEpS rOunD cRyPt * -l-

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

bagpipes...no idea why but i love a bagpipe. they make me smile

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By *ap AdgeMan
over a year ago

Wirral

Bass guitar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It has to be the hammond organ coupled to a Leslie amp. Just makes my toes tap and my heart race.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This one time...at band camp

Sorry, couldn't resist

*runs and hides

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