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The new kind of rock

lestat080lestat080 Posts: 12
edited September 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
Wouldnt it be fun to reintroduce old instruments like flutes, accordeons and harps in hardrock. To give it a new kind of sound?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    And kazoos, and steel drums. And don't forget the nose-trimmers. You can get a really rocking groove out of those. Oh, and toilet flushes, if you're going for a really shitty authenticity. ;)
  • The LurkerThe Lurker Posts: 25
    Y'all should check out a german metal band named In Extremo... a lot of their songs are adaptations of really old european folk songs, some of them from the middle ages, or are done in the style of them.....they really run the gamut from acoustic stuff to oldmetallica-with-bagpipes stuff. One hell of a band...... drummer, singer, bass, guitarist, and three (3) bagpipers.... and they all rotate between electrical instruments and stuff like nyckelharps, flutes, uillean pipes, bagpipes, harps, mandolins, shawms, lambeg drums, you name it. Pick up either Sieben ('Seven') or Verehrt und Angespien..... or if you have to obtain one song, try Kuss Mich or Spielmannsfluch.

    This is one of them playing a device called a nyckelharp.... a very old scandianvian folk instrument, sort of like a hurdy-gurdy.

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  • thatirwinfellathatirwinfella Posts: 51
    as is stratovaiors... harpischord anyone?; rhapsody, well, any norweigen power metal band. Very medieval
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  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    I think a flute or piccolo would actually be really cool in some rock music, if it was done right.
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  • moster78moster78 Posts: 1,591
    Jazz flute.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    DOSW wrote:
    I think a flute or piccolo would actually be really cool in some rock music, if it was done right.

    Like Jethro Tull?
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  • harrisonmerwinharrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    lets not forget many many many modern albums use lots of instruments, its just not really heard through the main 4. If you are a hardcore listener, you can pick up alot more than you think.
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  • enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    QOTSA uses a lot of interesting instruments on their albums. :)
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  • surfanddestroysurfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    A Saxaboom is always good, just ask Tenacious D.
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  • The LurkerThe Lurker Posts: 25
    There's also Morphine.....
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    moster78 wrote:
    Jazz flute.

    Jazz flute is for sissy little boys! ;)
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