What's your favorite name for a musical instrument?

Serpent
Left-handed sewer flute
Tromboon
Mailing tubas
Pandemonium
Slide music stand

Sackbut and racket are already taken, so I’ll have to go with the Crumhorn, affectionately known as the snarffleblat.

Didgeridoo

Heckelphone.

Singer-songwriter Dean Friedman has created some very unusual instruments.

Meet the Boing-D-Boing, the Honkblatt, the Booble, the Jingle-Lingle Lily, the Laser Harp and the Tone Stones.

From the webpage:

no question- glockenspiel.

oh, and “mandolin” sounds really pretty to me

stritch
manzello
clavicythérium
sarrusophone

Ocarina.

Oboe!

Flugabone, a valve trombone wrapped up into the shape of a flügelhorn.

Banjorine, a cross between a banjo and a tangerine. You played it during the concert, and peeled and ate it afterwards.

B.B. King’s Lucille. When you know why he named it that, it all makes sense. Everything.

Lucille should definitely top the lists.

My guitar’s name is “Syphilis” so of course I have a special affinity for that, although my best friend named his “Rubella”.

Erectarine – it sounds like a rude fruit

Shofar

Si

Shofar sho good.

Well, somebody had to.

Satchmo, dat you?

Mark Knopfler wrote a song about this instrument on the Brothers In Arms album :- Shofar away

I can keep this up all day

Si

Brilliant!

I think most of the good ones have gone, so I’ll just give a shout-out to the sousaphone.

“Sliphorn” for trombone; “Barking Bed Post” for bassoon.

cowbell.

Cabasa, which sounds a little too much like sausage.