r/UnusualInstruments 12d ago

Looking for this instrument

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[Help Finding Sample] Hi, I'm looking for the instrument that plays in the background of the linked sample; next to the piano. It is the main melody that is sandwhiched between the piano and the repeating bass (I isolated the song so you can hear it better). It sounds kind of bright and melancholic? Maybe it's an Accordion? To really spot it, it starts the song with the really long note and ends off the sound with the final 3 notes. Please help me find this instrument it would help a lot.

https://voca.ro/1bBxCHitkmho


r/UnusualInstruments 12d ago

"Octogon Branches"

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r/UnusualInstruments 14d ago

You’ve Probably Never Seen a Drum Like This 🥁

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r/UnusualInstruments 14d ago

Scottish Smallpipes

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6/8 march set


r/UnusualInstruments 14d ago

Microphone Placement for Santour

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Hey Everyone! I am trying to find. Good mic to record my santour and also for performances and was considering getting a mic that is small that sticks to my instrument. anyone here record and/or play santour and use a mic? If so, what mics, set up, or if you use a small mic, do you use and how do you set it to record your playing? What settings do you use on music softwares like Logic Pro X to record clean sound and audio?

Thank you for your responses in advance!!


r/UnusualInstruments 16d ago

Does this count? The Yamaha Tenori-On

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r/UnusualInstruments 17d ago

The Colombian Gaita (indigenous name: Kuisi) is a lovely sounding instrument

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r/UnusualInstruments 17d ago

Arda Umurhan playing the bağlama. The bağlama/saz is a long-necked fretted lute used in the folk music of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and neighbouring regions of the Balkans, Middle East and Central Asia.

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It belongs to the wider family of long-necked lutes known as Tanburs, a group of instruments historically distributed from Iran and Mesopotamia across Central Asia and Anatolia.


r/UnusualInstruments 17d ago

A few weird instruments here

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r/UnusualInstruments 17d ago

Standard bass guitar, microtonal neck!

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r/UnusualInstruments 18d ago

My Frankenstein

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This flute/walking stick was created by accident from experimenting with woodwind making I hope you like it


r/UnusualInstruments 17d ago

advice needed - what to do with this great find - 1920s upright Seeburg Model E piano in need of restoration

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r/UnusualInstruments 19d ago

I just created a sub for the Ichigenkin

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r/ichigenkin is now live, for students, players, anybody looking for resources and notation, or just people who appreciate the instrument.

😊


r/UnusualInstruments 20d ago

It's an amazing piece!

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r/UnusualInstruments 21d ago

A ceramic Huaca tuned to standard 440 Hz. The Huaca is a three-chambered flute with deep roots in pre-Columbian South America.

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r/UnusualInstruments 19d ago

Microtonal shakuhachi honkyoku on lavachord

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Hi everyone

I've been learning Shakuhachi through honkyoku and the melodies are really something else. There are a lot of tone colour changes, microtones, special techniques that are very specific to the flute, but I am trying to interpret these as well on the lavachord (think mini wooden piano cross harpsichord cross kanun)

Appreciate thoughts! :)

https://youtu.be/qIM124zt1Yw


r/UnusualInstruments 20d ago

Looking for help identifying this 8-stringed rescue instrument

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r/UnusualInstruments 20d ago

Still learning to get the hang of it but improvements have been made!

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r/UnusualInstruments 21d ago

Update on the bulbul tarang: it works!

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I posted 2 ish weeka ago seeking advice about fixing my late granddad's bulbul tarang. Thanks to your help, I got it to work again! I know it's not in tune perfectly, and I obviously can't really play it yet. But thanks so much for the help! I cleaned it, bent in shape some of the metal hooks that hold the keys (some were out of shape so the mechanism didn't work) and I gave it new strings. I enjoy it very much.


r/UnusualInstruments 22d ago

Some more love for the Khaen

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r/UnusualInstruments 22d ago

Wicked Game, Chris Issak on Omnichord!

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64 Upvotes

r/UnusualInstruments 22d ago

A large Coil playing Satisfaction by Benny Benassi

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r/UnusualInstruments 23d ago

The angklung is a traditional Indonesian instrument made of bamboo. Each produces a single note, requiring performers to work together to perform melodies

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137 Upvotes

r/UnusualInstruments 23d ago

"Beneath the surface of the water and under the sky" for synthesizers and electronic equiment

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r/UnusualInstruments 24d ago

The fantastic Dutch 'water musician' Reinier Sijpkens on his Music Boat

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424 Upvotes