OFFICAL INSTRUMENT POWER RANKINGS

>>53033820
0. Computer

>>53033820
>piano below guitar and violin

Actually fuck that
>piano below anything

For me
Piano
Sax
Guitar (only because of the amount of shit you can do with it

Maybe low-end strings?

Then the rest

>>53033843
fuck off Kraftwerk

>>53033820
>recorder not #1

trashed

>>53033820
Piano at 6?
Off yourself. Piano is the best

Wow big trombone slam
Fuck you guys

1. Synthesizer
2. Guitar
3. Saxophone
4. Harpsichord
5. Piano
6. Percussion
7. Trumpet
8. Violin

>no skin flute

fucking cishet

>>53033820
1. Cello
2. Violin
3. Trumpet
4. Piano
5. Guitar
6. Flute
7. The rest

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>>53033820
>no drums

Everyone rating sax over trumpet - LOL! - you absolute MADMEN!

>>53033993
i agree

>>53033925
how do you know when a trombonist is at the door?
after they ring the doorbell they yell "pizza!"

>>53033995
>drums
>an actual instrument

>no organ

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>>53033820
lmao ok uh huh

ACTUAL LIST BASED ON ACTUAL USEFULNESS:

- pipe organ/computer
- piano/synth
- violin/cello
- guitar/cultural guitar analogues
- more limited strings (bass, lutes, mandolins, violas, etc)

POWER GAP

- harmonica
- saliva-plastered, one-note-shit like woodwinds/brass

The fuck is power level determined by? Thanks for not clarifying the rating system you fucking autist. All you did was brag about how cool a fucking saxophone is. It isn't by the way. You probably think it is because you played it in marching band with the other social rejects in highschool. You probably were inspired to play it because of all the cock you blew. "Hell, if I can blow cock this good, surely I can play the saxaphone!"
Fuck off.

>>53033820
Non-musicians believe this.

Fuck off, poptimist scum, go jack off to the same 5 post-bop albums.
>>53033995
Percussion is irrelevant.

>>53034200
oh also accordion below guitar
and banjo included as a "cultural guitar analogue"

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>>53033935
This.
Everyone who won't pick synthesizers as number one can fuck right off.
>muh oscillators
>muh envelopes
>muh infinite soundscapes

1. saxophone
2. hammond v3
3. other organs
power gap
4. piano
5. upright bass
power gap
6. flute
7. clarinet
power gap
8.-? anything else

>>53033820
autist detected

>>53034278
>>53034289
>>53034177
this though

>>53033993
>>53034200
not bad

1. contrabass
2. pipe organ
3. bass clarinet
4. saxophone
5. trombone
6. viola
7. piano
8. bassoon

>>53034200
>more limited strings
>non-string players actually believe this

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ITT: nerds say their instrument is the best

>No Triangle
Fuck off

>>53034504
>he doesn't plan an instrument
everyone point at laugh at this pleb

1. Flute
2. Saxophone
3. Piano
4. Guitar
5. Drums
6. Trumpet
7. Violin
8. Vibraphone
9. Bass Guitar

>>53034504
Pretty much. I play 12 because real musicians don't choose just one. Also, I'm not in high school band so I'm not of this mentality anyway.

>>53034484
>bass/viola/etc aren't limited
>this is what bass players and violists actually believe

>>53034695
>non string players actually believe this
educate your self m80

drums
..

>french horn not even on the list
You fucking plebeian. What the fuck is wrong with you.

>>53034934
You're right. I meant to put French Horn below 7, but I forgot about it, as usual.

1. sampler
2. synthesizer


shit. all the rest

>>53034960
What a pleb holy shit you know nothing

Sampler is the best instrument, fuck you all

>>53034960
Nah but really, different tastes and all that jazz. I totally see where you're coming from.

>>53034982
>>53035003
this guys knows it

>>53035578
>>53035003
>>53034982
fuck off it's not even a real instrument

>>53034986
>implying French Horns are worth anything

>>53034294
we know that's you rick wakeman, go to bed old man

>>53033820
>faggot band kiddie pretending bassoon is anything but deeply embarrassing

>>53036899
Did you used to play the Bassoon? We're you made fun of because you looked like a faggot with it? It's okay man, let it go.

>>53036958
>>53036899
Bassoon
>Other names: basson
>fagott
>fagotto

>>53037067
>being this mad at bassoons
seriously dude it's allright

>>53037079
i'm not even mad tho. look it up it's troo

>>53033879
fuck off The Beatles

>>53036958
I knew a fedora-wearing literal autist in highschool who was extremely proud of his bassoon, and that stuck with me ever since.
>implying it's not a stupid instrument

>>53037109
fuck off Skrillex

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>>53033993
My man.

>>53034289
>first you imply you aren't a non-musician
>then say percussion is irrelevant

Something doesn't add up.

>>53034621
Personally, I picked just one to really get good, and then to play with others who also excel at their instrument. But you do your own thing.

>>53034982
but if you use samples of other instruments, how do you count that as better?
I mean any band, or combination of instruments, is better than a single instrument.

>>53033820
French horn is objectively the best instrument

>>53039060
see >>53034960

im biased towards organ and pedal hapsicord so im not including those

the rest:
god-tiet: trumpet, drums, bass
really good tier: piano, clarinet
okay tier: sax, most other brass, cello, guitars, harph, xylophones and metalophones
bad: other strings, lap irons etc. gong, most percussion
shit: fucking violin i cant stand that shit. piccolo

>>53034294
its well known that acoustic instruments have richer sounds, and more variety of timbre and color.

synths can do a lot, and can even sound like acoustic instruments. but they can never capture the nuances of a real performer playing a real acoustic instrument.

also there are acoustic instruments that sound like synths:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_kw0XK7gDY

here's my ranking

1. human voice
2. church organ
3. clarinet
4. piano
5. flute
6. cello
7. oboe D'amore
8. violin
9. bassoon
10. french horn
11. cor anglais
12. electric guitar
13. classical guitar
14. viola d'amore
15. duduk
16. trumpet
17. oboe
18. vibraphone
19. viola
20. tuba
21. marimba
22. synthesizer
23. xylophone
24. drumkit
25. glockenspiel
26. timpani
27. celesta
28. viola
29. contrabassoon
30. erhu
31. contrabass
32. dizi
33. koto
34. launeddas
35. dulcimer
36. piccolo
37. trombone
38. tuba
39. saxophone
40. bass clarinet

sorry bass clarinet, you are actually very good, but just happened to be last in this particular list.

1. Double bass
2. Trumpet
3. Piano
4. Cello
5. Clarinet
6. Guitar
7. Trombone
8. Tenor Sax
9. Flute

9001: Computer

>>53039843
20. should be harpsichord, not tuba

my bad

>>53039843
man bass clarinet is godlike. Way better than bassoon, oboe, and french horn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C6YAB-bLCU

why do you like timpani its probably the weakest drum

>>53033935
I could live like this.

>>53039971
>no human voice

good luck with that

>>53033861
Agreed, piano is king.

For me,

Piano
Bass
Trumpet
Drums
Sax
Guitar
Other Brass
Other Strings
Other Stuff

>>53039843
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_kw0XK7gDY
from my personal experience with /classical/ I thought this was going to be some bullshit but holy fuck that is actually neat

How about a list of the most overrated instruments?

1. human voice
2. guitar
3. drums
4. analog synthesizer
5. saxophone

>>53040112
>voice
>overrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfF7W4El60

>>53040173
>human voice
>not overrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcBusxDThM

>>53040200
thats a piano.

lets see it sing a sustained note as beautifully as a real singer.

>>53040214
>thats a piano.
Hence the human voice is overrated.

>>53040223
your evidence does not support your claim.

it cant even do speech properly, let alone sing. and it requires careful programming and months of work to recite those simple sentences.

>>53040237
It shows that it's capable of imitating the human voice to a certain degree. Can the human voice imitate any instrument?

>>53040259
trumpet, drums, theremin, and a few more, all far more successfully than your computer controller piano, and with far less work.

look at bjork's medulla. its all human voice, no other instruments. beatbox, innuit choir, mike pattons weird noises, etc.

i dont want to put human voice on a pedestal, but its pretty capable. can do anything from harsh noise to soft beauty. it can also sing lyrics, more than you can say of 99% of all other instuments

>>53040200
>>53040337
confirmation that electronics are the superior(est) instrument

I will tell you something.

Imagine you have to say what kind of instruments you like. You can say something like this:

"To me music must have at least vocals or trombone or trumpet or sax or violin or piano or (oboe, basson) or (flute, accordion, harmonica)."
PS: when some instrument is inside ( ) this means the track must have all things inside the
( ) to the guy maybe like.

Anyway to some, human vocals, is not only needed to make someone maybe like an track, but there will no choice without vocals.
This means that not only an vocal is better than an piano, cello or trumpet, but is better than all 3 together.

This means vocal is not only an very good instrumenbt but is super mega ultra fucking extremely good according to those guys.

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>>53040421
Pretty much. With electronics pretty much everything is possible.

>>53040337
I recommend you pic related btw.