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I think violin.

Bag pipes?

Violin is actually painful.

The recorder. Mostly because when it's played really well, you're like "wait, that's what a recorder is supposed to sound like?" But you almost only hear it being played poorly or messed around on.

Violin is a good one, reed instruments like saxophone and clarinet make horrible screeching sounds when played poorly as well.

A group of bagpipes that aren't in tune with each other is easily one of the worst sounds I've ever heard

Saxophone

Harp.

Clarinet. It sounds like shit at the best of times. I can't imagine how bad it is to be played badly.

Theremin.

Violin is a good one.

In the context of live music, drums should be up there too. They're inherently a loud, driving part of the music that's supposed to be a metronome. A bad drummer will mess up everyone else.

Viola

Bad trumpet and bad violin are equally abhorrent.

Vuvuzela
Heck, it's still sounds bad when played properly

Wait what about theremin

Harmonica.

Triangle

El_Marsh posted...

Bad trumpet and bad violin are equally abhorrent.

Trumpet was the first one that came to my mind tbh

Xatrion posted...

Clarinet. It sounds like shit at the best of times. I can't imagine how bad it is to be played badly.

Obviously, you don't live near an octopus whose house is a Moai head and who works as a cashier at a fast food restaurant.

Voice

Oboe

Mussurana posted...

Oboe

Fuckin' finally, someone said it.

A bad oboe sounds like a 300 pound man falling on a box of birds.

Anything with a reed

Despised posted...

Wait what about theremin

that thing doesnt sound good when you play it correctly

The accordion.

Whether played badly or not.

Bagpipes or sitar would be my guess.

First I was going to say trombone, but after thinking it over, trumpet. The mouthpiece on a trombone is big enough to cover most of your mouth at least, whereas a trumpet mouthpiece will just result in the sounds of spittle flying out mixed with groaning fart noises (trombone is more of just the fart part and less spit, but deeper).

People trying them for the first time always think you just blow into a brass instrument like a recorder.

Bassoon. :-)

I've got to pick the violin over woodwind and brass instruments because with those if you're playing it poorly you probably aren't even making a sound. There's at least a little bit of technique required to make them make any kind of noise, where with the violin all you have to do is have the bow touch the strings.

s0nicfan posted...

I've got to pick the violin over woodwind and brass instruments because with those if you're playing it poorly you probably aren't even making a sound. There's at least a little bit of technique required to make them make any kind of noise, where with the violin all you have to do is have the bow touch the strings.

Violin is a fine pick and all but there is mostly definitely a sound when you teach someone how to blow into a brass instrument and they give it their first try. It's like a weak fart that sounds both extremely dry and wet at the same time.

Skin flute

I think it is bagpipes. A little AltoC ocarina is bad enough if you do not blow into it at the proper angle.

recorder

source: me as an angry kid with a recorder

thronedfire2 posted...

recorder

source: me as an angry kid with a recorder

The problem there being a perfectly played recorder is still an extremely unpleasant sound.

Mandolin too

Syfe posted...

The recorder. Mostly because when it's played really well, you're like "wait, that's what a recorder is supposed to sound like?" But you almost only hear it being played poorly or messed around on.

Oh wow, recorders are incredibly lovely played right. I have a soft spot for wind instruments in any case.

Clarinet or any woodwind that uses a reed

R1masher posted...

that thing doesnt sound good when you play it correctly

That is because you are an uncultured swine

I have sax bias , but I think the saxophone. Some people are saying bagpipes, not to sound like an ass but do they sound good when played correctly ? The change from sounding really good like the Sax can to sounding like crap is the greatist with the sax.

Tuba
Just sounds like loud farts when played badly

cjsdowg posted...

I have sax bias , but I think the saxophone. Some people are saying bagpipes, not to sound like an ass but do they sound good when played correctly ? The change from sounding really good like the Sax can to sounding like crap is the greatist with the sax.

Bagpipes sound fucking awesome

Oboe. Its like a worse sounding clarinet, and clarinets already sound bad. And I say that as a person who played the clarinet lol

Bagpipes