Favorite instrument

If you had to pick your favorite instrument, what would it be? What's a good song with that instrument?

For example, I like the violin. An example of good music with that instrument is: Telleman Suite for recorder, strings and continuo in A minor.

Piano. Lots of modern pieces sounds great on it. And on the other hand, lots of classical pieces sound great on it too!

I'm probably still a guitarist mainly but the wanky shredding side is draining away and leaving me with lots of chops to play with!

Classical guitar would be my favourite instrument. All of Bach's lute suites are great to play on guitar.

Mark

Oh... I can't decide... :P

I love harp. Mozart's concerto for flute and harp.

I too love pipe organ. Bach's tocatta and fugue in D minor and Poulenc's organ concerto.

I also love harpsichord. Scarlatti's sonatas rock.

Cello too!! Dvoràk's cello concerto... ^^

Violin is great, of course, and my favorite woodwind is the clarinet.

French Horn is great. Violin, piano are too

Piano.

Trombone, hands down. Pretty much the greatest instrument ever invented. It sounds especially pretty when played in groups. I'm being totally objective here. Definitely no personal bias. Nope. Example: The London Trombone Sound playing Baber's Adagio for Strings. Probably the most gorgeous piece of music I've ever heard.

And this is a newer one for me, but I really love a full choral sound, especially with a nice deep bass section. You can make some of the most beautiful sounds in the world with a good choir. Example: Biebl's "Ave Maria"

And although it has less variety of sound, I think the sound of a Hammond B3 Organ is frickin' awesome.

Trombone, hands down. Pretty much the greatest instrument ever invented. It sounds especially pretty when played in groups. I'm being totally objective here. Definitely no personal bias. Nope. Example: The London Trombone Sound playing Baber's Adagio for Strings. Probably the most gorgeous piece of music I've ever heard.

And this is a newer one for me, but I really love a full choral sound, especially with a nice deep bass section. You can make some of the most beautiful sounds in the world with a good choir. Example: Biebl's "Ave Maria"

And although it has less variety of sound, I think the sound of a Hammond B3 Organ is frickin' awesome.

TROMBONE! Although I do have a bias since I play trombone, but there's some other reasoning as well. It was the first fully chromatic wind instrument. It is the one instrument that comes closest to imitating the human voice. For that reason, it was used long ago in tandem with some voice choirs if they needed basses or something. It's the only wind instrument that can play perfectly in tune all the time in every key, and even in microtonal scales. Stephen, if you like trombone choirs, you should hear Scarborough Fair and Hey Jude played by about 30 trombones. We also played stuff like Achieved Is the Glorious Work by Haydn which sounded really cool and some other stuff.

Sounds awesome. Are there recordings of your group? I was actually just listening to a quartet (and what a quartet!) playing the Haydn piece you mentioned.

Horn, even though I don't play it. (I did play low brass in high school, and also played euphonium for a couple terms in the concert band at Caltech, but I never got used to the horn even though I had one for a summer - my range on it barely reached an octave, and didn't even get into what's considered the middle register for the instrument.)

It's an extremely versatile instrument, blending well into almost any grouping of instruments imaginable, and as a solo instrument, capable of an incredible range of expression. If you've ever heard the Richard Strauss horn concerti, or the Brahms horn trio, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Sounds awesome. Are there recordings of your group? I was actually just listening to a quartet (and what a quartet!) playing the Haydn piece you mentioned.

Technically, no. However, my dad video-taped us, and I'd eventually like to extract the sound from that recording so I can listen to it without taking out the camera. Also, it was a high school level group that had less than a week to prepare, so It won't be quite the quality of the other stuff you've heard.

Classical Guitar, preferably built by Yamaha or Jose Ramirez

Bassoon definately. It has such a beautiful sound. :) I love Mozart's bassoon concerto in Bb. I like it (the instrument, not the concerto) cause it can blend in with pretty much anything and it sounds great with the melody. I'm not really sure how much solo stuff there is for it, but if there isnt a lot, there needs to be more!!! :D

Piano. I wish I could play it =(. I like Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1.

Piano. I wish I could play it =(. I like Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1.

The city's orchestra where I lived just performed that. It was ok.

The violin if played well; otherwise, it can be my worst favourite instrument.

Bassoon definately. It has such a beautiful sound. :) I love Mozart's bassoon concerto in Bb. I like it (the instrument, not the concerto) cause it can blend in with pretty much anything and it sounds great with the melody. I'm not really sure how much solo stuff there is for it, but if there isnt a lot, there needs to be more!!! :D

Oh God!! How could I forget that one?? I love bassoon too! ^^ Hurray for The Sorcerer's Apprentice... :P

bassoon of course. it sounds awesome.

some of chopin's opuses for piano.

or electrical bass

Tuba.

Banjo!!!:sleeping:

Jewsharp? I read somewhere that one of Beethoven's early instuctors wrote concerti for the jewsharp and orchestra.

Oboe, arguably the most beautiful to hear and fickle to play of them all. :P

I can't really pick a specific piece with an oboe that I like the most... Probably something by Bach would be my first pick.

~Solburnt

I think the viola has the nicest sound but the violin tends to dominate the orchestra. As well, there is a lot of music written for piano but it doesn't sound as nice as the violin or the viola.

If you want to hear really expressive orchestral violin playing listen to Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony Mov. IV