To ask for your favourite and least favourite musical instruments?

[Coffeebiscuitsrepeat]

I'll start.

I love the viola
I fucking hate the saxophone (Unless played SPELLBINDINGLY well).

Best: violin (but also love the other strings)
Worst: all brass instruments and the flute - they all make my head hurt

Favourite: Flutes and whistles, uilleann pipes (they look so hard to play!) but I'll defend the Highland pipes too!

Unfavourite: Hammond-type organ - ugh! (But pipe organs are great, both church and theatre organs.)

Any instrument played well is pleasant but I dont love bagpipes.

I love any of the double reed woodwind- oboe, cor anglais or a bassoon any day. Secretly hoping DD or DS fancy learning.

Favourites: cello, clarinet, soprano saxophone

Least favourite: digeridoo, pan pipes

Love the viola and cello. I play the violin, and taught myself the viola as a teenager. Now DD plays the cello and I'm trying it out myself.

Worst - recorder when played badly!

I recall reading somewhere that Mozart's favourite instrument was the viola, and his least favourite the flute. I don't know if this is true and doesn't make sense in terms of the concertos he wrote, but I definitely have heard it.

I dislike the classical flute - the Irish one is a bit better.

Best - Saxophone, and other wind instruments.

Worst - Viledin Violin.

I adore the cello. It sounds so beautiful.

I don't really hate any musical instruments. Bagpipes in a massed band can sound really good. On their own they're a bit grating though.

Jazz trumpet is up there with annoyances but that's probably more of the way it's played in the genre than the instrument itself.

Best - piano, organ, clarinet and French horn in competent hands

Worst - those horrible breathy panpipes give me the rage.

I also hate the violin and like most patents the recorder
I absolutely love Spanish guitar

@Coffeebiscuitsrepeat I guess it's because when a contrabassoon comes out at concert you are in for some serious goosebumps.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScUEgUZbpbU

Sunrainwind 'I don't like piccolos by themselves'

What's worse than one piccolo by itself, though, is two piccolos together.

Best: recorder, harpsichord, lute
Worst: piano. Flute (ugh at that breathy sound)

Best would be a classical guitar and a harp. You could hit a harp with a hammer and it would still sound great.
Worst would have to be bagpipes.

Current favourite - kalimba
Least favourite- the agogo bell I bought a few weeks ago. Just slightly too high in tone which grated on me!

Favourite - cello

Least favourite - trumpet or trombone, maybe? Anything played badly is rather awful.

I played the flute as a teenage and got reasonably good. Then, in my wisdom, I decided to try the oboe. It’s a beautiful instrument but it was so hard learn to play. My poor, poor parents.