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Points: 758 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2007 at 05:43
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Accordion, used by Kebnekaise & Samla Mammas Manna...
The Accordion is actually the most common instrument of the 20th century.
 
Doubleneck Bass/guitar used by Genesis
Have been used by Led Zeppelin and The Eagles too, to mention the most famous. It has probably been used by many more prog bands too. EDIT: To be honest, I don't know if LZ and Eagles used a bass/guitar or just a dubble-necked guitar.
 
Balalaika, used somewhere i think
In Russia, also by swedish Södra Bergens Balalajkor.
 


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@frasse, i posted above a picture of john paul jones using one of his favourite instrument - the double-neck bass, which he used also while in led zeppelin, but i can't figure if it's an electric or an acoustic one.
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Points: 758 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2007 at 05:52
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

 
Keyharp, not used in Prog as far as i know. But common in swedish folk-music.
 
Garmarna uses this if I'm not wrong. They are in PA so I suppose someone thinks they are prog, though I have never seen them as such.
 


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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Anybody know what this thing is?


    

i don't know... fartophone????
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Points: 1678 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2007 at 06:05

while The Tea Party were touring once, they collected traditional indtruments from every country they played in and used them for their next LP and so became one of the best albums ever:


                  THE EDGES OF TWILIGHT
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Points: 3089 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2007 at 06:17

one of the most versatile rock musicians ever, john paul jones also uses the Koto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_%28musical_instrument%29) in his solo albums (for atmospheres and also for playing some zeppelin songs just as good as page did), the bass lap stell guitar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar an acoustic one i guess) - he used it with zepp on Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, and the auto-harp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoharp) - for the solo albums i guess.



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The musical saw. It produces a ghosty sound. For example, you can hear it on the main chorus of Hide In Your Shell (Supertramp). They used a street musician.
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I've "played" an autoharp. IT is really cool/weird.
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I've got 'em all beat. The Nose Flute, used by Jefferson Airplane on "Lather".LOL
Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan
ringed by ants and musing over man.
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Intonarumori, 1913.




Trautonium, 1930.
Percussion, sir!
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On Caravan's second album, "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You", Richard Sinclair plays hedge clippers (!) as a percussion instrument in the marvellous song "Hello Hello".
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