and hey, actually, if wikipedia should be the norm...

Voice can be listed as an instrument, but throatsinging, yodeling, death growl etc. are just various implementations of the same thing, therefore they should not be listed. Following your logic we should list flanger, tremolo and wawa for guitar as a separate instrument.

SaReGaMa wrote: death growl

kokkaljos

don't forget about THE MOTOGRATER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motograter

Would someone ban this wanker already? He spammed every possible thread with this crap!

spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

ok guys, i "warned" him per MP and ask him to not use / spam the topcis.
i can't ban someone for a" bad use" of the forum.. so wait and see
thanks

cheers

But it's pretty obvious that this man is here NOT for discovering new music.

he is - but he wants to profit from it

bad bad man !! !!

just realised i was off topic with my last comment so...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart

used in at least one tune i know of

amelie wrote: i can't ban someone for a" bad use" of the forum.. so wait and see
thanks

cheer

probably he wants to get heard! He wants a reply from someone

phonicboom wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart

used in at least one tune i know of

ok, now you're just being ridiculous.

No he's not!

Watch this.

Phon is right, farts are widely used in music, though they can't be listed as an instrument. Probably he should've suggested an arse as an instrument :D

i'm well aware of the usage of farts, burps, and even the occasional orgasm used in music, (see: mike patton), but i think it's important to have some fucking standards when putting a list of instruments together. i mean, we could call everything a fucking instrument if we sat down and thought about it. just because merzbow or einsteurzende neubauten might have made music by banging away on sheet metal or anvils doesn't mean i think they should be included on the list. there is even a vegetable orchestra out there (see:http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY) but does that mean carrots, mushrooms, or broccoli belong on the list. hell no. just because you can use something AS an instrument does not make it an instrument.

officernarc wrote: ok, now you're just being ridiculous.

not just "now" --- "always".

please take note that seriousness is a disease.

Face it. This list is going to be constantly growing, as the number of instruments is grows whenever a new one gets invented.

I see that the waterphone, invented by Richard Waters, is on the list at oddmusic.com. It really isn't such an odd instrument, because practically everyone has heard it at one time or another. It has been a favorite for adding spooky or spacey sounds to Hollywood movie soundtracks for at least 40 years.

I can think of a long list of instruments that don't appear on the list, many of them invented from the 1920s - 1980s by American composers Harry Partch and Ivor Darreg and others. The difficulty of making a comprehensive list of instruments should be obvious already, but if it isn't, here's an excerpt from http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/feature_partch.html (this is a fun web site by the way. They have "virtual" versions of Partch's instruments.)

By 1969, the year he recorded "Delusion of the Fury," Harry Partch had designed 27 new instruments, all to be played on stage at the same time in a spatial ritual theater.

So a few new instruments that should be added are: