Musical Instrument Madness Round Three

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I am a little sad I missed the first couple of rounds, oh well.

Before I vote. You have a harpsichord? Within sight of your computer? :eek:

You are officially the coolest person I have ever met.

Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet

I like the sax, but sax players really take it down a notch for me. Trumpet for the win!
2. Clarinet

All about the Clarinet
Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  1. Drumkit

Drumkit can mean so many things. Timpani are always Timpani.
3. Vibraphone

Hard, but Steel drums are almost never used well.
Chordophone bracket:

  1. Banjo
    As a guitar player I will let you know that deep down we all want to play banjo.
  2. Cello
    No comment for this one, I just like the Cello

Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  1. Harpsichord

See my comment at the top of the thread re: Harpsichord and coolness.

  1. Electric Guitar

Ok, my real answer is probably pipe organ, but since I chose banjo over acoustic guitar I feel I have to stand up for my primary instrument.

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  1. Trumpet

  2. French Horn

  3. Drumkit

  4. Steel Drums

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar

  6. Violin

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano

  8. Pipe Organ

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Indeed. A Chickering upright, which has been in my family for the last 4 or 5 generations. Unfortunately not all of the keys work, and I have been warned that replacing the parts (strings, hooks, etc) would make it lose its antique value. Still, you have got to love the response action of a harpsichord, which operates by plucking strings, rather than hammering them. I also believe it to be a CARDINAL SIN for anything originally composed for Harpischord to be recorded and published while playing a Piano (which is unfortunately true for almost every Bach sonata out there…)

Oh uh. If anybody else wants to vote Harpsichord, be my guest.

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  1. Trumpet

  2. Clarinet

  3. Drumkit

  4. Vibraphone

  5. Banjo

  6. Cello

  7. Harpsichord

  8. Electric Guitar

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet

  2. French Horn
    Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  3. Drumkit

  4. Steel Drums
    Chordophone bracket:

  5. Banjo

  6. Cello
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano

  8. Electric Guitar
    I played Saxaphone so it was hard to pick the trumpet over it but I think the trumpet is more fun to listen to.

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet

  2. Clarinet
    Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  3. Timpani

  4. Steel Drums
    Chordophone bracket:

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar

  6. Violin
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano

  8. Pipe Organ

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Saxophone

  2. French Horn
    Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  3. Drumkit

  4. Vibraphone
    Chordophone bracket:

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar

  6. Cello
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano

  8. Pipe Organ

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  1. Saxophone

  2. French Horn

  3. Drumkit

  4. Vibraphone

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar

  6. Cello

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano

  8. Electric Guitar

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet
  2. French Horn

Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  1. Timpani
  2. Steel Drums

Chordophone bracket:

  1. Banjo
  2. Violin

Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  1. Acoustic Grand Piano
  2. Electric Guitar
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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet
    vs 4. Saxophone

  2. Clarinet
    vs 6. French Horn

Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

1. Drumkit
vs 4. Timpani

  1. Steel Drums
    vs 3. Vibraphone

Chordophone bracket:

1. Steelstring Acoustic Guitarvs 5. Banjo

  1. Violin
    vs 3. Cello
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

1. Acoustic Grand Piano
vs 4. Harpsichord

  1. Electric Guitar
    vs 3. Pipe Organ
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Huh…must’ve missed Round 2. Ah well…

Aerophone bracket:
4. Saxophone
2. Clarinet

Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  1. Drumkit
  2. Steel Drums

Chordophone bracket:

  1. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar
  2. Cello*

Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  1. Acoustic Grand Piano
  2. Electric Guitar

*Good thing I previewed…I had accidentally picked Violin. A fine instrument, no doubt, but I’m looking for the Cello to win the whole shebang.

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I like that spirit. I feel like I’m going out to Brazil in the quarter-finals.

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Saxophone

  2. Clarinet

Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  1. Drumkit

  2. Vibraphone
    Chordophone bracket:

  3. Banjo

  4. Violin

Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  1. Acoustic Grand Piano

  2. Electric Guitar

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My votes follow below.

Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet (I am learning to play it now, as a matter of fact)

  2. Clarinet (Definitely prefer the sound of this one)
    Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  3. Drumkit (Rock all the way, baby!)

  4. Vibraphone (I prefer the sound of this one)
    Chordophone bracket:

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar (This one was easy to decide).

  6. Cello (But this one was REAL HARD… I ended up going with the cello for its sound).
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano (Another hard one! But the piano is more expressive).

  8. Pipe Organ (No contest here, though. Pipe Organ FTW!)

Just my 2 eurocent!

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It looks like the banjo is going down in flames. Let me take a moment to tell you all how wrong this decision is. I am a guitar player. I play steelstring acoustic easily as often as electric, and while it is cool…the banjo it totally awesome! Not as awesome as mandolin, and nowhere near as killer as the ukelele, but still totally awesome. Steelstring isn’t even as cool as nylon string (though infinitley more useful).

So what I am saying is…vote banjo, because it’s just cool and steelstring acoustic is really kind of a boring instument.

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet
  2. French Horn

Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  1. Drumkit
  2. Steel Drums

Chordophone bracket:

  1. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar
  2. Violin

Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  1. Acoustic Grand Piano
  2. Electric Guitar
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Saxophone

Clarinet

Drumkit

Steel Drums

Banjo

Violin

Acoustic Grand Piano

Electric Guitar

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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Saxophone

  2. French Horn - I am amazed that so many people picked the clarinet over this.
    Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  3. Timpani

  4. Vibraphone
    Chordophone bracket:

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar

  6. Cello
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano

  8. Pipe Organ

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  1. Trumpet
  2. Clarinet (aiee! This match-up killed me! But I had to go with the clarinet mostly because of the intro to “Rhapsody in Blue”.)
  3. Timpani
  4. Vibraphone
  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar
    Cello (Agh! Impossible to choose! But went with cello as it is less whiny.)
  6. Acoustic Grand Piano
  7. Pipe Organ (my pick to win the whole shebang)
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Aerophone bracket:

  1. Trumpet
    vs 4. Saxophone

  2. Clarinet
    vs 6. French Horn
    Idiophones/Membranophone bracket:

  3. Drumkit
    vs 4. Timpani

  4. Steel Drums
    vs 3. Vibraphone
    Chordophone bracket:

  5. Steelstring Acoustic Guitar
    vs 5. Banjo

  6. Violin
    vs 3. Cello
    Electronic/Mechanical bracket:

  7. Acoustic Grand Piano
    vs 4. Harpsichord

  8. Electric Guitar
    vs 3. Pipe Organ