Worst Musical Instruments
Who wants to nuke every recorder ever made and every factory at all that has ever made a recorder and then dig up what's left of the inventor of the recorder and throw him into a flaming pit of molten lava, and then go destroy everything that mentions recorders then kill everyone who likes recorders then make everyone who is left swear to never mention the recorder ever again under penalty of torture, and then burn anything or anyone who might lead to re inventing the recorder.
The Hurdy Gurdy is by far the worst instrument. It sounds like someone duct taped a cat to a ceiling fan, an oscillating cry of desperation, over a persistently tedious droning. That doesn't excuse the recorder for sounding like an asthmatic guinea pig, but at least a five year old will get tired of it too, and just use it to dig for worms in the garden, whereas Hurdy Gurdy "players" never seen to get bored of the pain they inflict on people, and just keep turning that squeal wheel until someone pays them to go away.
My Opinion but this instrument got the most irritating sound ever. I play this instrument ( rarely ) only because I have to do something or I want to annoy someone. Good for irritating other people and learning is easy. Bad for sound that gives you head ache even if you are using it good.
Next to the kazoo, the recorder has got to be the most basic musical instrument ever. We all learned it in elementary school, but seriously- who has played it since then?
I have a Kazoo I love it! It's actually pretty funny and good if you use it correctly.
Now, I carry it around everywhere, but I don't blow in it obnoxiously. THAT'S when they get annoying.
Seriously, at least you can actually play melodies on a recorder. No matter how well you play a kazoo, it sounds like a kazoo.
Why Is This Classified As An Instrument? It Is Just A Worthless Spit Blowing Kazoo That Is All It Is.
Annoying little thing you sing and spit into. Why is it even called a musical instrument?
The triangle is the type of instrument that you give to a kid with downs syndrome so that he can feel as if he is part of something special. It is a simple instrument. If I had my way I would beat the manufacturers of said instrument over the head with an aluminum baseball bat.
Oh God... I can't play it. I seem to possess an unfortunate, innate lack of rhythm, and I can't even hit the triangle at the correct points. I remember when I had to play it during a school concert, and...
Forget. Forget.
... I'll be crying in the corner with the poster below me.
Recorder shouldn't be #1 cause at least it can play different pitches! And the Kazoo is really just a toy... The Triangle however is just stupid, that's why the always put the kid with it in the back! They don't want to humiliate him/her!
It really hurts me that this is at number one, because I have no rhythm or anything like that and the triangle is the only instrument I can play properly.
THANKS FOR PUTTING MY DOWN.
If you're looking for me: I'm crying in a corner
The glass harmonica is a beautiful instrument and it takes a lot of effort and talent to play. It's not as easy as it looks.
What? It's a beautiful instrument!
Spell check. It's glass armonica.
Bagpipes are a wind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. I hate them! My dad hates them! It just makes my head wanting to explode with rage and anger when I hear them! JUST MAKE IT STOP! I'm glad I don't hear them often or at funerals. They'd just ruin my day. I'll listen to a trumpet at a funeral any day of the week.
There is a park near my residence. I used to go there early in the morning and walk around the track for exercise. One morning, a man was there playing the bagpipes. I hated every second of it. I was tempted to assault and batter him.
Dreadful noise! Why can't they play rock music at Veteran's Day ceremonies instead of these loud, annoying and hideous "instruments"?
Another one of those instruments that do not sound good on its own. I hear them on remembrance day services, and as much as I know it’s a sign of respect, it can get a bit irritating.
Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. I played a bit of the Guitar and more Violin and when I moved to another school (when I was Year 3), I learned how to play the recorder and the recorder is really fun to play with (in my opinion). Silent Night is easy on recorder once you get the hang of it. I started playing the Piano and so far, I can only play one song... Why is the recorder the worst instrument on the list? I disagree.
This is a very underrated instrument, people need to play it before complaining about how bad the sound is. It's actually not bad.
It's great instrument that so underrated if anyone thinks differently please just look up Accordion Beethoven
It's bad because it doesn't make any sense unless you truly know how to play it. I think it is just plain annoying.
I have one. I think it sounds cool.
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. I think it is on the center line. this reasoning is that it is a heavy instument that you have to lug around and it could get to be boring playing it because there isn't A TON of variations of interesting solo music with harp. But it has a beautiful sound and goes great with high pitched voices like in a choir
The harp was used in ancient times as a musical cure to the Kings' boredom. It is a legendary instrument and a parent to today's variety of instruments.
I was at a wedding reception once and a woman was playing the harp. I was drunk and wanted to pick it up, throw it as far as I could, and punch her in the face.
It sounds pretty but it eventually gets really annoying as a solo instrument. Honestly there aren't any really bad instruments.
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. People are saying it's terrible it sounds like a dying donkey. Well maybe it sounds like that because YOU can't PLAY IT RIGHT. Everyone is all like it's so screechy, well guess what...it's not supposed to sound like that, and if it does that means your playing it wrong. WOAH WHO KNEW! I recommend this to anyone who wants to do band don't listen to anyone that says it sounds like it's a dying donkey, their not playing it right. If you think it sounds bad it's not the flutes fault, it's yours.
If you are somehow able to make your flute squeak, then you have accomplished quite the feat. Flutes are designed to be played in orchestras/bands; not marching bands. Piccolos should be used for marching band. Tuning, squeaking, "I CAN'T MAKE SOUND!," and complaints about dynamic control mean that YOU are the problem, not the flute. All musical instruments deserve respect, be it a flute or not.
Good to know that some people hate my fave instrument ;-;
It does cause a huge headache, especially if you already have one, but if you manage to play one without using it to wreck your table, then you'll feel pretty proud. Also, if you can't get a sound out, that's your own fault. You probably made the hole in your mouth too big or too small. Or maybe you didn't blow enough air. Or maybe you can't hold your breath for long enough. :P
There is no way that this instrument will ever make bad ass. This thing is an abomination of sight and sound. It could even make the coolest of people look like flaming asses.
No, the keytar is basically a synth that you hold like a guitar, it is bad ass if you are a keyboardist
Is a keytar a guitar that can be used for video games by pressing buttons
The stupidest instrument invented.
The cowbell sounds horrendous. Anyone who thinks this sounds good is wrong.
Iron Maiden made the cowbell cooler now
A gross sounding (best way I can put it) instrument that should be confined to bluegrass
Maybe, but bass clarinet is definitely not. The bass clarinet is beautiful.
Umm.. What?!?! Listen to Mumford and Sons. That will make your opinion sensible
Banjos aren't really that redneck.They take a lot of skill to play
A classmate in my class would just bang this on everybody's head in music class and it sounded like the damned souls in hell
I hate how everyone there bases their arguments on a cartoon character or inexperienced players in the high school band. Just listen to Benny Goodman or Woody Herman or Artie Shaw. They all sound beautiful
Clarinet is one of the best instruments if it's played right. If you hate it it's because you've never heard an amazing player. Try looking up any song featuring clarinets. You'll change your mind.
Clarinet plays a wide range and is very melodic, but in a bad players hands in can rival flute in irritation factor. Squeak. Definitely should not be in the top 10.
If you can't play completely professionally this sounds like you are killing a deep voiced cat!
A trumpet is a blown musical instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. People, think about it. Trumpets play a huge role in band. Trumpets hold lots of the melody, and songs without the melody isn't exactly the way to go. Also, just because the instrument CAN be loud doesn't mean is HAS to be, just like how the flutes can be loud if played right. Also, if you are a real musician, you understand how all instruments have potential to do amazing things in music, and trumpet is definitely on that. And it's not easy, either. If you use active slides, it makes it just as hard to work as a flute, just you have to keep your articulation right. Don't go around complaining about trumpets when the squeals of clarinets and the off-tune orchestra instruments are also factors here.
I remember when I was in music class in high school. I had a trumpet for class. Many kids played tons of annoying songs on their trumpets while I practiced to play 25 Or 6 To 4 by Chicago without any distractions. I then played the song to my music teacher, she loved it, while many kids thought that I was an amateur. I was not! I spent many days trying to learn that song, and I had formed a jazz band with my friends, to boot! Soon enough, I played the song at end of school summer vacation assembly, and I actually killed it on both vocals and trumpets. One of my friends did the guitar solo for me. I guess that it was all for nothing, and that the kids that criticized me were left in the dust. Respect my instrument well, people.
Funny story: My band director didn't have his trumpet, and he wanted to demonstrate the trumpet part, so he asked a kid, "Hey can I borrow your trumpet? " and the kid said "ok" I thought he was just going to sing and finger along like he usually does, but he actually put his MOUTH inside the mouthpiece that the kid already played in, and played the song. Then he gave the trumpet back to the kid and he just kept on playing like nothing happened. WHAT THE FRICK!
This has less to do with the instrument itself, but the people that play them. Or, rather, CAN'T play them. Seriously, they play one note, think they've mastered it, and then do nothing but play in your ear like a deafening mosquito.
Oboes belong to the classification of double reed woodwind instruments. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. These people don't know how an oboe sounds like. It does not sound like an old person farting or a fork rubbing against a plate. It made good sound in uskudar, and is hard to play. That's why people think it sounds like an old person farting or a fork rubbing against a plate.
The oboe is the worst and most obnoxious sounding instrument ever invented in the history of all noises, apart from perhaps the piccolo=
I play the oboe, and while it’s very difficult to play (people just don’t understand the pain involved) I agree that many of the noises that it emits are not...desirable. However! I am of the firm opinion that trumpets sound worse.
A oboe is like a fork rubbing against a glass plate very annoying
This was at the 2010 World cup It was like if the world cup was hosted in the UK where instead of the soulful voice of Adele, the world cup had been played to the sound of a fairground organ oom-pah-pahing all over the place
If you didn't vote for this instrument then you've never heard it before.
Satanael played the vuvuzela, and he and all thoughts who herd it, fell from heaven
This noise just ruins the World Cup games.
The ukulele is a member of the lute family of instruments; it generally employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings. How is this not in the top ten?! (23 currently.) The ukelele is fine as accompaniment, but hardly any ukelele players understand that and try to make it the star...
To arrogant to learn bass? To lazy to learn guitar? Good news! Now, you can be the douche at the party without any of that pesky "effort"!
It looks like a toy. It sounds like a toy. It's a toy, not an instrument.
Country singers use this instrument, so it's automatically bad
The sitar is a fantastic instrument and the Beatles proved it!
What he hell is a sitar?
And he admits it
What is a sitar
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed brass instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues.
The violin is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Alright, now this top ten list thing is becoming Hilarious... The Violin, The Cello, The Harp, The Viola, The Double Bass, The Guitar, The Flute, and The Piano, are all very Great Musical Instruments that definitely should Not be on a list like this at all... ; Perhaps, it is that, whomever compiled this list does Not understand Great Music... This list is Crazy
WORST INSTRUMENT EVER INVENTED! TRY DOING ANYTHING IN PEACE WHEN YOUR ANNOYING SIBLING PLAYS THIS DEVILISH INSTRUMENT BECAUSE I ASSURE YOU THAT YOU WILL BE SO TRIGGERED THAT YOU WANT TO SNAP THAT VIOLIN IN HALF AND POUND IT INTO THE GROUND! THE VIOLIN IS THE MOST ANNOYING SHRIEKING SHRILL SQUEAKY INSTRUMENT EVER!
My late grandfather used to play the violin. He sucked. Listening to him play was like getting a root canal. He also had an album featuring a violinist. If I ever met said violinist I would like to punch him in the face. I hate the violin.
I kind of hate violin. At the start of the school year they introduce us to the orchestra instruments. About 60% of the kids play violin, 20% play viola. 15% play cello and 5% play bass. Needless to say, the violin is an overrated and overall terrible instrument.
Me and my friend are arguing what is better trombone or saxophone and I play trombone he plays saxophone so I say his instrument was an accident of brass and wood wind but trombone is not.!
Trombone is basically the worst instrument it’s lanky, annoying, heavy, and the most dorky instrument. I can name 1 famous trombonist Trombone Shorty, never heard of him, your not the first
Trombone just sounds like a loud fart and never sounds good unless someone with a high skill level is playing it.
The trombone is the single best instrument in existence. Nay, the single best THING in existence.
Haha the laughing stock of the orchestral world. Not respected between string players, terrible tone, goes right through you
Your just being a gayer of beautiful instruments, STOP! What's next? The piano?
Violin's worse cousin that not even the people who play it, like it.
WHAT? I bet you don't even know what a viola is.
-The__Violist