Weird Instruments

Does anyone know of any 'weird' instruments (that 5000 people at school dont play) that arent exeptionally hard or exeptionally expensive.

 

Thumb Piano, Zither, Didge.. Ooooooh You can make a didge at home for like ten bucks.

Look up PVC didgeridoo's on google. there's how-to's everywhere.

 

Theramin! Wicked cool instrument.... I always find nose flutes amusing hehe

 

Stylophone!

 

glass harmonica,saw,circut bent toys,bells.

 

the montain or appalachina dulcimer

 

the sousaphone! or a kazoo.

 

Rattle made with shells...

 

The Vibraslap. The Dead used it in one of their albums. Sounds weird.

 

what do you think?
very exotic

 

Sousaphone/tuba is both hard, and exceptionally expensive. Mine cost about... $7000.

 

bass flute......

e flat clarinet (people will want you dead, it's the piccolo of the clarinet world)

flugle horn

 

The hurdy gurdy! That's one wicked ass instrument (featured in Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks"). Prolly cost you a pretty penny tho.

 

vibraslaps are sweet!..... if i was you, i'd go with the cabasa, but any other small percussion instruments (us drummers call them toys) are usually easy to play too

 

what about those finger cymbals... like belly dancers use? Or a rain stick -digredoo?

 

jaws harp

 

doumbek (the kind of hand drums you hear in middle eastern music), they're fuuun.. and it's easy to learn rhythms on them cause middle eastern music is additive rather than divisive, so you just need to learn some basic rhythms and build on them yourself. around where i live a good quality doumbek runs from about 90-120$ (canadian)

 

ummm, hammered dulcimer?

 

Vibraslaps are really cool, not real expensive either. Jaw/mouth harps are awesome too. You can find a descent mouth harp at Cracker Barrell stores. Hurdy Gurdys are really expensive and not the easiest things to find. Harmonicas are a good inexpensive instrument. Easy to find, not hard to play, and they come in any key imaginable so you can play all kinds of music.

 

pan flute...just find a 10,000 Villages store and they have a bunch of great stuff [but way too many "singing bowls"]

meg, what was that thing that is like half a big coconut type thing with those little metal keys that you pluck called