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The Pessimist 
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 Topic: Quite an interesting topic...
Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:04 |
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Favourite instrumentalists in prog that are NOT drummers, guitarists, keyboardists, or bassists (percussionists and organists permitted)
Ian Anderson on flute
Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra) on violin
David Jackson (VDGG) on saxes and flute
yours?
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:11 |
Mike Oldfield.  Joking... Jordan Rudess - continuum (you didn't forbit it did you?) Jay Beckenstein - sax
Edited by Aeternus - December 19 2007 at 15:47
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Endless Wire
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:13 |
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Ruth Underwood on vibrophone/xylophone. Especially on Apostrophe.
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Melomaniac
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:15 |
Mel Collins on all sorts of winds - amazing musician
Kerry Minnear on vibraphone - otherworldly playing
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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cynthiasmallet
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:20 |
Gabble Ratchet-Delicious talents in general
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Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat?
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YesFan72
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:37 |
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Brian Gulland (bassoon) - Gryphon
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:45 |
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Anna Sofi Dahlberg - mellotron,cello and keys.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Abstrakt
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 15:47 |
Kerry Minear - Cello, Xylophone
Ian Anderson - Flute
Mel Collins - Flute, Sax
Jerry Goodman - Violin
Kenny Håkansson - Violin
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khammer99
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 16:55 |
I don't know if you would consider this Prog, but there is a band called Off Kilter, that has the bag pipes as the features instrument... Their albums generally rock! Otherwise: As mentioned Tull - Flute Jean Luc Ponty - Violin Jay Beckenstein - Sax Keith Emerson - Gong ( I kid, I kid! ) 
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has
been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
- Terry Pratchett
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zappaholic
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 16:55 |
All those homemade, intriguingly named instruments that Sleepytime Gorilla Museum play.
Oh, and Gene Frenkel of BOC on cowbell. 
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Edited by zappaholic - December 19 2007 at 16:57
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Padraic
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 17:02 |
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Due to my current Canterbury addiction, I'll place a vote for the late, great Elton Dean.
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Dim
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 17:04 |
 sinkadotentree wrote:
Anna Sofi Dahlberg - mellotron,cello and keys. |
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nightlamp
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 19:59 |
Didier Malherbe Ruth Underwood David Cross Ian McDonald David Jackson Michel Berckmans Just out of curiosity, why are keyboardists forbidden but organists allowed? 
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el böthy
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 21:36 |
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I have seen more interesting topics... sorry
mmm, well let´s see
Gérard Hourbette - violin/viola
Dan Rathbun - Cockroach ...jejejejeje
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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dwill123
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Posted: December 19 2007 at 21:42 |
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Bela Fleck - banjo
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BaldFriede
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 04:09 |
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Pierre Moerlen on all kinds of tuned percussion (when he is not drumming).
Didier Malherbe on all kinds of wind instruments, especially flute.
Chris Karrer when he plays violin (he plays guitar and sax too).
Didier Lockwood on violin.
Georgie Born on cello.
Lindsay Cooper on several wind instruments, especially bassoon.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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sean
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 13:04 |
khammer99 wrote:
I don't know if you would consider this Prog, but there is a band called Off Kilter, that has the bag pipes as the features instrument... Their albums generally rock!
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Thanks for mentioning them, I just looked them up, it's really cool stuff.
for the topic:
Yann Tiersen-Accordion, Violin, Melodica, (plays piano too, but that's not relevant)
Bela Fleck-Banjo
Mark Wood-Violin
Ian MacDonald-Sax, Flute
and since you say organ counts-J.S. Bach
also all the orchestral players in Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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khammer99
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Posted: December 20 2007 at 14:08 |
sean wrote:
khammer99 wrote:
I don't know if you would consider this Prog, but there is a band called Off Kilter, that has the bag pipes as the features instrument... Their albums generally rock!
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Thanks for mentioning them, I just looked them up, it's really cool stuff.
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They were dressed in kilts and the whole bit. I guess they've got a permanent gig at Epcot, where I saw them, a few years back. If you can ever get a listen to "Miracle Fingers" from "Etched in Stone" you would be impressed. I never thought a set of bag pipes could just flat out jam!
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has
been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
- Terry Pratchett
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Philéas
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Posted: December 22 2007 at 21:33 |
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Michel Berckmans (Univers Zéro and related) - Bassoon, oboe.
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Rocktopus
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Posted: December 23 2007 at 20:02 |
BaldFriede wrote:
Lindsay Cooper on several wind instruments, especially bassoon.
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The others you mention are great too of course. But Lindsay's playing's exceptional and she's rarely mentioned. (She's currently suffering from
multiple sclerosis )
Two more I can think of:
Lars Hollmer: accordeon (Samla,Zamla, solo...)
Walter Maioli: Arabic Oboe (Aktuala) + double flutes, wedge flute, pan flute,
shrill flute, egyptian open mouthpiece flute, Roman bugle conch
trumpet, Bull roarer, beaten skins, discòs,
scabillum,bamboo flute, bass flute, piccolo, metalflute in C, harmonica, reeds, whistles, djembee)
Clem Alford: sitar (Magic Carpet and solo)
Don't know that many names of all the great instrumentalists in the avant/RIO bands.
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Quite an interesting topic...
