# If your voice was a musical intrument, what would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2012, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617 "2012-12-20T08:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/1 "2012-12-20T08:17:16Z")
**And/or what register?** And why do you feel that way? I know what mine is, speaking and singing. I’d like to hear about yours. ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/2 "2012-12-20T09:54:14Z")
Clarinet, for both speaking and singing. I’m a tenor. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/3 "2012-12-20T11:11:38Z")
oboe or tuba. filtered through gravel and broken glass. ---
**Author:** ![Cats\_pajamas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Cats\_pajamas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cats_pajamas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/4 "2012-12-20T11:53:57Z")
A box of broken glass as used in old-time radio drama for a sound effect. ---
**Author:** ![Scholar\_Beardpig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/5 "2012-12-20T12:33:16Z")
A euphonium, no question. Somewhere… somewhere between the trombone and the tuba. Bass-baritone. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/6 "2012-12-20T12:37:35Z")
A kazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/7 "2012-12-20T12:58:32Z")
Something with a reed. I’m 32 and it still cracks from time to time. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![bahimes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/8 "2012-12-20T13:11:32Z")
Bass viol slightly detuned, with a Willy Nelson-like timbre. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/9 "2012-12-20T15:50:46Z")
Huh. I’m thinking something with a drone string, because even though I think “country” phrasing can be musical I basically talk in a monotone. Alto. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/10 "2012-12-20T15:56:35Z")
Baritone sax and/or cello. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/11 "2012-12-20T16:02:45Z")
A vuvuzela. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/12 "2012-12-20T16:02:59Z")
What makes you think that the human voice isn’t already a musical instrument? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/13 "2012-12-20T17:12:35Z")
My singing voice is a deep basso, so I guess it’d be the lower register of an organ. But my speaking voice is somewhat “whiney,” like bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/14 "2012-12-20T17:20:11Z")
Cross between a badly tuned accordion and a Stumpf Fiddle. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/15 "2012-12-20T17:21:10Z")
Badly tuned bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/16 "2012-12-20T17:36:37Z")
Trombone of course. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ss2hULhXf04/hqdefault.jpg "Charlie Brown Teacher Speaking") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/17 "2012-12-20T19:48:56Z")
French horn, maybe, or a bassoon. I have sort of a Bing Crosby singing voice that can usually take on Orbison. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/18 "2012-12-20T20:17:11Z")
Baritone sax - impossibly smooth and mellow at its best, but with honks, cracks and that ragged dirty reed sound all too often. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-voice-was-a-musical-intrument-what-would-it-be/644617/19 "2012-12-21T01:34:55Z")
Very descriptive examples! I can amost hear the voices.