# Musical Instrument Madness Round Four **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 18, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306 "2008-06-18T05:03:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/21 "2008-06-19T01:37:55Z")
Aerophone bracket: 1. Clarinet (Apparently, I am to die 😃 ) Idiophone/Membranophone (still one of each left!) bracket: 2. Drumkit Chordophone bracket: 1. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar Electronic/Mechanical bracket: Can I write in “Pipe Organ”? No? _sighs_ 1. Acoustic Grand Piano ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/22 "2008-06-19T01:38:41Z")
Aerophone bracket: 2. Clarinet Idiophone/Membranophone (still one of each left!) bracket: 3. Vibraphone Chordophone bracket: 3. Cello Electronic/Mechanical bracket: 1. Acoustic Grand Piano ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/23 "2008-06-19T09:18:34Z")
No-brainer. Clarinet, vibes, cello, piano. Chuck out the vibraphone and you’ve got quite a nice ensemble ready for a podium finish 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/24 "2008-06-19T16:30:33Z")
Aerophone bracket: 1. Trumpet The trumpet rocks. I love the Clarinet, but it does not rock. The choice was simple. Idiophone/Membranophone (still one of each left!) bracket: 1. Drumkit Ouch, this is hard…I am going with drumkit. It uses all four limbs, and there is something kinda cool about that. Chordophone bracket: 1. Cello Again, guitar player here. You were wrong not to send the Banjo into this round. But the Cello is possibly the sexiest instrument in the history of music. MAYBE the electric Bass guitar is sexier. Maybe. No contest. Electronic/Mechanical bracket: 1. Electric Guitar I am probably going to lose this one. But once again, I can not in good conscience vote against the guitar twice in one round. Besides Electric Guitar is crazy versitile. What can the piano do that a guitar can’t? Play 10 notes at once? (Ok, that is actually kind of cool) Guitar gets it in a walk. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/25 "2008-06-21T04:29:11Z")
Results: Aerophone bracket: **1. Trumpet - 12** vs 2. Clarinet - 11 Idiophone/Membranophone (still one of each left!) bracket: **1. Drumkit - 12** vs. 3. Vibraphone - 11 Chordophone bracket: 1. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar - 9 **vs. 3. Cello - 14** Electronic/Mechanical bracket: **1. Acoustic Grand Piano - 16** vs. 2. Electric Guitar - 7 ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/26 "2008-06-21T12:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] …I had to cast the deciding vote for Trumpet vs Sax…all you clarinet lovers can just DIE already… [/QUOTE] I’ve made a few tries, but they keep saving me. I would have voted for the saxamaphone, but _somebody_ cast a bad deciding vote. Aerophone bracket: 2. Clarinet Idiophone/Membranophone (still one of each left!) bracket: 1. Drumkit Chordophone bracket: 1. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar Electronic/Mechanical bracket: 2. Electric Guitar ---
**Author:** ![WoodenTaco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@WoodenTaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WoodenTaco)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/27 "2008-06-21T17:18:45Z")
I’m starting a ska band, I guess. 1. Trumpet vs 2. Clarinet 2. Drumkit vs. 3. Vibraphone 3. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar vs. 3. Cello 4. Acoustic Grand Piano vs. 2. Electric Guitar ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306/28 "2008-06-21T17:36:57Z")
Hey guys, voting’s over. You want to go to the Final Four here: [Musical Instrument Madness Round Five - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=472580) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-instrument-madness-round-four/453306.md?page=1)