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A lot of my instrumentation works on LVDTs, and I think they are pretty neat anyway. Great for position sensing.

Only the scalpel gets through to me, because I don't believe in acupuncture.

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A mandolin.

A singing saw, love the ghosty sound of it.

Most instruments played well grips my heart and holds. But steelpan. People see it as something carnival something something, but it fits well for a surprisingly wide span of music! The power of the bass pans in death metal as much as the "synthiness" in a melody from some NES game, it fits!

Vibraphone

Very cool too and vaguely consistent with my other picks. They're all metallic percussive keyboard type instruments involving mallets to some extent

Edit: Metallophones seem to be my sweet spot, in terms of instrument category

The instrument I want to learn to play (but have no reason to do so) is the hammered dulcimer.

The instrument that most makes me perk up when I hear it in a song is the bass (or contrabass) saxophone.

Harpsichord. Almost forgot about that one. when Tori Amos breaks out the dual piano/harpsichord, great things happen.

It's simple, piano. It's funny, I've trying to learn this instrument since back when my late father bought one, yet I still can't play one.

I'm going with the Mellotron.

It's a keyboard that uses strings of tapes for each note. It pulls the tape over a head and plays that note until the tape runs out. When you're playing fast, sometimes the tape isn't all the way down, so it makes everything sound super custom.

Think Strawberry Fields by the Beatles. That's a Mellotron you're hearing.

B A S S

For anyone looking to get into brass instruments, this is a great example of how a horn can be made to sing. It’s the first time I had ever heard someone put their soul into a horn.

To be clear, this isn’t something a novice can play. The notes he’s hitting are hard.

The Theremin and not just weird sci-fi/horror way of playing it. It can be a real instrument if it is played in a way that treats it as such.

https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk?feature=shared

Idk, compasses are quite cool and useful?

As a musician the Monome Norns raspberry pi shield and lines community has been inspiring me a lot lately. It's a FOSS "sound computer" that can take on hundreds of uses.

Ukulele. It's so easy to play, C is just one string! And they're small enough to take in your carry on if you travel. I own 5...

Whatever instrument Peter Pringle is playing in this vid:

Lament for Enkidu

Frickin haunting

Agree on music box. For me, it's also violins.

Harpsichord. Below the streets of St Paul in (that) London.

If you know, you know.

Rhodes Piano, hands down.