Obscure Instruments

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Billie Jean But Every Instrument Is A Spring Door Stopper (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Car alarm as 4th instrument (youtu.be)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Slipknot - Killpop - beating a keg with a baseball bat (www.youtube.com)
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Throughout the song they beat a beer keg with a baseball bat to deliver one specific sound that fits really nicely into the song.

You can start at ~1:20, the first beer keg is at ~1:30. Or listen to it whole, it's generally a great song.

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Playing Music on a Steam Controller and a Graphing Calculator (youtube.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Einstürzende Neubauten - sheet metal, springs, assorted trash (www.youtube.com)
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TW: the song is about God committing suicide.

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Sorry, had to (youtu.be)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Fire Alarm Becomes 3rd Jazz Band Member (youtube.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Big Ideas (Don't Get Any), played on scanner, printer, hard drives, and ZX Spectrum (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Skip to 1:10 if you don't speak binary.

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Duet for French Horn and chair (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"BARCODE-BOARDING in the barcode park" Skateboards with barcode scanners that read stripes on the ground and play sounds (www.youtube.com)
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I tried my best to explain in the title

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The Commodordion (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Virtual Riot - death by amen (the Amen Break is the only instrument in the entire song) (www.youtube.com)
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Sub-contrabass flute: only a handful exist (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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e1m1 on a dot matrix printer (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Experimental instrument made from an old HDD (youtu.be)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30252286

I need this

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fron2 (youtu.be)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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