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Poll Question: Please Choose one, and why is you favorite
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
26 [22.61%]
12 [10.43%]
44 [38.26%]
2 [1.74%]
3 [2.61%]
10 [8.70%]
8 [6.96%]
7 [6.09%]
3 [2.61%]
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The Mellotron!  Such a cool instrument that is very much unique to prog and it's history.
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Originally posted by DarioIndjic DarioIndjic wrote:

1.Mellotron

2.Moog

3.Flute



4.Xylophone

All the other usual instruments like Percussion, Sax, Piano, real strings/Violin/cello, guitar, keyboards, Organ is used so often in all other genres of popular music. Its hard to think of them as prog instruments.

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Mellotron.
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Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

The Hammond and the Mellotron. My favourite instrument, though, is the bass guitar, and prog can boast of some of the best bassists in rock.

Prog boasts some of the greatest bassist beyond genre boundaries.  Guys like Myung, Reingold, Squire, Levin, and company are all top class bass players that not even great reggae players can match musically.

 
 
 
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Good poll. I love the use of flute in Prog, although if you had included 12-string guitar as an option, I might have voted for that.
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Very nearly voted for the Mellotron...but I think it has to be the Hammond, so versatile and such a great sound.
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Though the Mellotron is probably THE prog instrument, I voted for the Hammond - I really love its distinctive sound! Anyway, my favourite instrument is the bass guitar, and prog can count on some of the greatest bass players in rock.
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There are lots of nice instruments, but I think moog is the most rapresentative...
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The progressive rock is often nailed as 'too clinical', 'too technical' and 'too self-indulgent'  . Well the Mellotron has been invented too compensate those negative remarks!

To be serious, this ubiquitous and unsurpassed instrument manages to evoke extensive goose bumps every time I am listening to it, from the compositions In The Court Of The Crimson King, Down By The Sea (Greenslade) and Zarathustra (Museo Rosenbach) to Tide (Greenslade), Afterglow (Genesis-Seconds Out) and almost the entire Barclay James Harvest album Live, A BIG HAND FOR THE MELLOTRON  !

By the way, the many imperfections and limitations from the Mellotron made it such a moving experience!
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The two greatest instruments of all time are missing, prog or otherwise. WHERE THE HELL ARE MANDOLIN AND ACCORDIAN?!?!
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For me it would have to be...

1: Mellotron
2: Drums
3: All other keyboards
4: Guitar
5: Flute
6: Bass
7: Violin
8: Reeds
9: All other percussion

I suppose voice would have to go in there somewhere too..
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Where is saxophone???
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Mellotron was what I voted. Organ is also one of my favourites. There's something about the organ's sound that just totally nukes all other instruments in terms of sound, and it gets this sort of generic yet down to earth yet complex in emotion and meaning sort of sound. Actually, now I wish I'd voted organ...

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My favorite is definitely Hammond organ and ...church organ ( what a pity that we can't vote for this instrument 'cos there were a lot of good church organ parts in prog history like Wakeman's or van den Linden's playing ). I really like piano and Moog too. I prefer keyboards in general.
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Originally posted by saarepiiga saarepiiga wrote:

Originally posted by wolf0621 wolf0621 wrote:

The mellotron is cool...for something a bit more rare, how about the SyntheAxe (in the right hands of course)? Only about 200 were ever made...The guy with Bela Fleck is pretty good with it, of course Holdsworth is the master...

What's SyntheAxe?

To: saarepiiga...

check out this link: http://www.hollis.co.uk/john/synthaxe.html , or here for nice pictures: http://www.open-tuning.com/img/SynthAxe.html

Users that I'm aware of: Allan Holdsworth, "Future Man" (Bela Fleck), Michael Jackson's guitarist on the BAD tour, Lee Rittenour, Chuck Hammer (Lou Reed/Bowie), Al Di Meola

Some people use the term generically to refer to midi-equipped guitars, but that's not what this is...

Have also seen it spelled "Synthaxe"...Launched in 1984 (or 1986 depending on who you believe), contained 8 "computers" & 50 chips, came in 4 colors, heavy...
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Originally posted by DarioIndjic DarioIndjic wrote:

1.Mellotron

2.Moog

3.Flute
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I chose Hammond because though moog, mellotron and piano are essential for progressive and I love even the Moog sounds (that's why I've bought an analog synth) and the mellotron orchestrations, Hammond is part of most major rock bands from the late sixties and seventies (even not prog) and amazing songs can be done only with hammond and precussion (or drums). 
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Originally posted by wolf0621 wolf0621 wrote:

The mellotron is cool...for something a bit more rare, how about the SyntheAxe (in the right hands of course)? Only about 200 were ever made...The guy with Bela Fleck is pretty good with it, of course Holdsworth is the master...

What's SyntheAxe?
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