# Sexiest musical instrument? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 7, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766 "2009-02-07T00:31:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/21 "2009-02-07T14:16:42Z")
[Casio DG-20](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUm3b2r9osg). ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/22 "2009-02-07T14:17:14Z")
[quote=“Chronos, post:10, topic:484766”] I dunno… I can picture a smokin’ hot woman playing harp a lot more easily than I can picture such a woman playing guitar. QUOTE] Whilst naked, the harp between her strong smooth and muscled thighs, sweat glistening on her washboard flat stomach, her strong fingers gently strumming the … I’ll be back in a day or so ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/23 "2009-02-07T16:07:51Z")
[Charlotte Moorman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Moorman), topless cellist. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/24 "2009-02-07T18:20:38Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Tuba, honey. Only one thing better than a tuba honey is a tuba diva. IIRC, our TubaDiva not only plays the tuba, but she wins, too. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/25 "2009-02-07T21:10:48Z")
In my high-school-music-geek days, I used to get some attention from the girls when I played piano, but almost never when I played my trombone. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/26 "2009-02-07T22:42:26Z")
context is key, here we see Nancy’s submission to the How Do You Mastubate Thread [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jxfdDrKO8uM/hqdefault.jpg "Heart - Alone") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfdDrKO8uM) and, of course, there’s an Eddie Izzard clip for everything [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fi7Y6MFWns) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/27 "2009-02-07T23:15:20Z")
Saxophone. Always. I’m really surprised that anyone answered anything else! ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/28 "2009-02-08T00:00:17Z")
The violin comes to mind immediately. (My mind, that is.) The other stringed instruments have their points. Then, there’s the bandoneon. As played by [Astor Piazzola](http://www.amazon.com/Tango-Astor-Piazzolla-New-Quintet/dp/B00000DC7J). ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/29 "2009-02-08T06:55:25Z")
Muted trumpet. ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/30 "2009-02-08T07:02:39Z")
> [@E.Thorp](#): > > In my high-school-music-geek days, I used to get some attention from the girls when I played piano, but almost never when I played my trombone. Go figure. Jeeze. Exact opposite for me. Them’s the breaks. 😉 Note my bias, but if an attractive lady were to be on stage making like JJ Johnson, I’d freakin’ propose. Trombone is a **damn** sexy instrument, penis jokes be damned. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/31 "2009-02-08T09:57:45Z")
Bassoon ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766/32 "2009-02-08T10:40:01Z")
Saxophone, by far. It’s not even close, but the trumpet comes in at #2. (Anyone who’s ever seen Gilbert Castellanos play the trumpet knows what I mean.) The differences: the sax has a smoother, more continuous sound; the sax is much easier to play, and playing the instrument well is a necessary component to the sexiness, so a horn player is just more likely to impress with a sax than with a trumpet; the sax encourages smoother, sexier, more sensual body language. A sax player looks like he’s slowly and sensuously making out with someone, while a trumpet player looks like he’s blowing down a straw house. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-musical-instrument/484766.md?page=1)