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The mouth organ, an offence against music?

TheCatWoman

To me it is, here was someone playing or preforming counry and westerm music earlier and was playing one of these instruments of aural torture, I mean C&W is bad enough, but combine it with a mouth organ, or gob iron as they're also known as, is just offensive. To me its finger nails down a blackboard level of horrible.

Any of you have instruments you can't stand he sound of?

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  • Bagpipes would be bottom of an order of preference list of all instruments known to me. They sound slightly off key and their squall is excruciating.

    The Irish uilleann pipes are designed to be played indoors so their sound is much softer and sweeter. I braved Belfast for the Fleadh this week and although they were being played in multiple places as I walked about the city, they were tolerable, unlike the crowds of people.

    I don’t like the mouth organ so it would be among the flute and a few other instruments towards the bottom of the list. If it is played by a skilled musician, it can sound less offensive to the senses.

    The violin is my favourite instrument and I also like the mandolin and clarinet.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I’m not a fan of bagpipes, my wife’s family are one of the few manufacturers of bagpipes, I can remember her uncle practicing on a ‘chanter’ and me needing to move further away, my hearing as with many autistic people is quite sensitive, a steel slide guitar is another instrument that has a high pitch and puts me on edge.

  • in reply to Roy

    I imagine your wife’s manufacturing family would be highly respected for such a skill. If I’d heard her uncle practicing, I would have moved further away too.

    The sound from a steel slide guitar makes my skin crawl. Not a nice instrument.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I have heard steel pan drums being played with rubber tipped drum sticks. They made the sound bearable for a short time, although I didn’t like it.

    I have also heard some some steel pan drums played with what sounds like metal on metal — it was painful listening.

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