The most annoying/hated instrument

[asmidir]

We've all got one. That one instrument, whether through terrible sound, traumatizing experience or annoying repetition is the one instrument that you hate. For me it is the retarded cousin of the flute and whistle, THE RECORDER!!!. My hate for this ear drum shattereing excuse for an instrument was rekindled when my sister found one while cleaning her room and has been blowing on it for most of the afternoon (luckily she got bored of it). Anyone who did music in primary school know of the horrible nails on chalkboard sound it makes, any poor mother who had to drive her child home who now thinks they will be the next best musician knows of the pain.

Now with my small rant over. So fellow escapist what is your most hated instrument? Feel free to share your bad experiences with it.

 

[badgersprite]

Seconded for recorder. It's the most useless thing I've ever heard. It has never sounded good played by anybody, and it's not even inherently funny like the kazoo. And I had to play it because apparently all schools like to torture you in year two...

 

[Artina89]

I would have to say the bagpipes. I don't see how the sound of cats dying could be classified as music. When I was a toddler my parents lived next door to a guy who played the bagpipes at stupid times. The guy was evicted after several people complained about him playing the bagpipes at 4 in the morning.

 

[asmidir]

Seconded for recorder. It's the most useless thing I've ever heard. It has never sounded good played by anybody, and it's not even inherently funny like the kazoo. And I had to play it because apparently all schools like to torture you in year two...

I couldn't agree with you more. Why waste time learing an instrument you will never need to use ever in your life. Even if it does help grasp basic music...it's just not worth it.

 

[badgersprite]

Seconded for recorder. It's the most useless thing I've ever heard. It has never sounded good played by anybody, and it's not even inherently funny like the kazoo. And I had to play it because apparently all schools like to torture you in year two...

I couldn't agree with you more. Why waste time learing an instrument you will never need to use ever in your life. Even if it does help grasp basic music...it's just not worth it.

To be honest, I found it way easier grasping basic music playing the xylophone and glockenspiel. They're way more fun instruments. By year three I took up cello just so I wouldn't have to play the recorder anymore. True story.

 

[Gunner 51]

I'll have to agree with Alucard 11189 on this one. The bagpipes are an auditory atrocity. Though I might have to disagree with the recorder, but only because learning to play it did manage to bag me some serious brownie points with the girls back at Junior School.

 

[Audio]

Autotune. I'd rather hear a 25 minute recorder solo than hear anything autotuned.

+1 Good man

It's NOT music.

 

[asmidir]

Seconded for recorder. It's the most useless thing I've ever heard. It has never sounded good played by anybody, and it's not even inherently funny like the kazoo. And I had to play it because apparently all schools like to torture you in year two...

I couldn't agree with you more. Why waste time learing an instrument you will never need to use ever in your life. Even if it does help grasp basic music...it's just not worth it.

To be honest, I found it way easier grasping basic music playing the xylophone and glockenspiel. They're way more fun instruments. By year three I took up cello just so I wouldn't have to play the recorder anymore. True story.

Lucky you. I was stuck in a dirt poor country school. If you even suggested anything besides the recorder, even if you already owned the instrument, you were immeadiatly shot down.

 

[Bobbity]

Recorder. We learned it for four... fucking... years... in primary school, and I literally (well, not literally) curl up into a fetal position and try to block out the noise whenever I hear it now.

 

[ApophisMP]

The drum machine that all rappers use

 

[ShadowsofHope]

The recorder.

But even more terrible? The recorder being played by a shitty player.

Or, in broad scope, any instrument being played by a terrible player.

 

[Mukil]

The triangle...I could never master the damned thing

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

Autotune. Voice synthesizers.

It's been said before and will be said again.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jlfuwHqr4&feature=related has a rad recorder solo

just sayin

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Bagpipes.It's probably the ONLY instrument that still sounds bloody awful even when played by an 'expert'

 

[NeedAUserName]

Vuvuzela. I don't know why this hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

[BonsaiK]

.Autotune ... has enabled talentless hacks like Kanye to get immensely popular, something impossible before Autotune became popular.

Not true.

Making bad singers sound good has been going on since the widespread proliferation of multi-track recording technology began in the 1960s. Auto-tune is just the latest method available, and not even the best, because unlike other methods it's very transparent, at least, in the form you know it as.

For more detail, read: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.216487-Curious-about-the-music-industry-Find-out-stuff?page=11#8933247

To answer the OPs question, I think it's the player, not the instrument, that has the most potential for annoyance. Anything can sound good (or bad) in the right (or wrong) hands.