Anyone play any rare instruments?
 

OK, long shot I know, but it's worth a try!

Anyway,just wondering if anyone here plays any 'less common' instruments. I myself don't, but want to learn the treble viol (or viola da gamba as it's sometimes called). I can also play a little shamisen (it's rare outside Japan!).

Anyone else?

I play a mean kazoo, bruh :afro:














No, but seriously, I can play sitar pretty well :D

I'd love to own a Koto or a Sitar one day. Neither are particularly rare, just uncommon in NA.
Have you heard of Harry Partch? He made his own instruments for his compositions.

Yeah, he's an impressive fella :D A friend of mine over at TheOpenJam.net builds his own effect pedals for sale, and they do some weird and wacky stuff to your sound :D

Watch the documentary FUZZ. Its amazing, all about pedal and FX designers.

I'll look into it :D thanks.

Very, very cool.

Thanks dude :D

My neighbor in my old apartment complex was Indian Buddhist and her husband played sitar :afro: He knew I was kinda down, just feelin' like **** all the time, so he helped with some incense and stuff, meditation rituals, and to help focus and relieve stress, he taught me to play the sitar :D

I keep my SG in Open A (lo-hi, E-A-E-A-C#-E) tuning, as it gives natural style of playing very similar to that kinda music. My next guitar will probably be in DADGAD, as it works really well for Indian folk music :D

My acoustic is tuned in Open G (lo-hi, D-G-D-G-B-D) for Delta blues and slide-work :D

I'm all sorts of weird, dude :laughing: I draw from Buddhism, New Orleans/Haitian voodoo, all sorts of **** :D

Man that is cool, something I have never got into was messing around with my guitar tuned in differently than standard. Though one of my life goals is to learn some mean slide guitar, which I think draws a bit on that, though I could just be completely ignorant.

I never even thought about Open A until I heard "In My Time Of Dying," and I decided to try it out. I really liked it, and while I was just noodling around, I realized it had this very natural tone that sounded like it was pulled right from the streets of Cairo :laughing: It's also good for electric slide.

Of course, "Kashmir" turned me on to DADGAD, but I've since come to use it for a lot of other things :D

Open G just came about from my fanboy-ism for Robert Johnson :D

I'd like to own my own sitar at some point, and maybe even a lap steel :D