Whether the bagpipe can still be called an unusual instrument is probably more a matter of genre.\u00a0After all, there are a number of bands in which bagpipes are a natural part of the sound.\u00a0And not just in medieval markets.\u00a0Korn is one of the heaviest bands in which bagpipes play a prominent role.<\/p>\n
You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n The melodica is used over and over again in a wide variety of genres to add an extra timbre to songs.\u00a0This is also the case of the group Gorillaz with the 2D comic characters, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs, behind which is none other than Damon Albarn from Blur. They already used the melodica on their first album in 2001, for example on the title “Clint Eastwood”, which was even used for an advertisement for a well-known car manufacturer.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n In \u201cEverything Counts\u201d Depeche Mode \u2013 as usual \u2013 used different samples, but also conventional instruments like the melodica and xylophone, which provide a stark contrast in the song which deals with greed and corruption in Great Britain. Britain at the time.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n Sufjan Stevens’ Mystery of Love was nominated for Best Song at the 2018 Oscars. He wrote and recorded the soundtrack for Guadagnino’s film ‘Call Me By Your Name’.\u00a0He relies on an extraordinary instrumentation where he plays a hybrid instrument, a mixture of guitar and mandolin, made especially for him, called a “guitalin”.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n The oboe has this incredibly soft, warm and at the same time clear and direct sound. This is also the reason why the oboe generally sets the tone when the orchestra joins it. But it has also long left its mark in pop music, as in \u201cTwist In My Sobriety\u201d by Tanita Tikaram, where Malcolm Messiter plays the oboe, delivering particularly catchy solo passages.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n Long gone are the days when the didgeridoo was primarily associated with Australian natives.\u00a0Musicians continue to experiment with the wind instrument, and so do Midnight Oil, one of Australia’s most successful rock bands.\u00a0One of the band’s biggest hits was “Beds Are Burning”.\u00a0On their tours they used the didgeridoo on numerous occasions, making singer Peter Grant and Co. ambassadors of Australian music and supporters of Aboriginal people.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” became a global chart hit in just minutes and topped streaming sites for weeks. The content of the Bible was treated in the lyrics, on an instrumentalisation of orchestra bells, glockenspiels and choral songs. Production innovator Brian Eno once again lent a hand, and ‘Viva La Vida’ won every award imaginable.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n To some, the kazoo, with its typical squeaky sound, belongs in the toy department, to others in the kit street musicians, but it also belongs in the rock scene! Voodoo guitar wizard Jimi Hendrix, who always found a way to bring sounds to life in his head, did it with a kazoo on “Crosstown Traffic” by doubling his guitar parts.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n Let’s not forget the classics, after all there are many unusual instruments in classical compositions that claim to interpret the sounds of nature, the moods of forests and meadows, or the changing seasons.\u00a0None other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart even wrote an Adagio and a Rondo for the glass harmonica.\u00a0He composed the works in 1791 for the blind glass harmonica virtuoso Marianna Kirchge\u00dfner.\u00a0It was his last work of chamber music.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n More Information<\/a> <\/div>\n One of the first popular songs to use the sitar was “Norwegian Wood” by the Beatles.\u00a0It was the time when the Fab Four experimented with unusual instruments and often went in search of the meaning of life.\u00a0George Harrison had purchased a sitar shortly before the recordings.\u00a0A meeting with the Indian musician Ravi Shankar had changed his life.\u00a0The sitar virtuoso taught Harrison and is also known as the ‘Silent Beatle’.<\/p>\n You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube<\/strong>. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/2502_Gear_Banner_Gemischt_729x90_EN_v01.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div><\/div>2. Gorillaz \u2013 “Clint Eastwood” \u2013 Melodica<\/strong><\/h2>\n
3. <\/strong>Depeche Mode \u2013 “Everything Counts” \u2013 Xylophone & Melodica<\/strong><\/h2>\n
4. Sufjan Stevens \u2013 “Mystery of Love” \u2013 Guitalin<\/strong><\/h2>\n
5. Tanita Tikaram \u2013 “Twist in My Sobriety” \u2013 Oboe<\/strong><\/h2>\n
6. Midnight Oil \u2013 “Beds are Burning” \u2013 Didgeridoo<\/strong><\/h2>\n
7. Coldplay \u2013 “Viva La Vida” \u2013 Orchestra Bells<\/strong><\/h2>\n
8. Jimi Hendrix \u2013 “Crosstown Traffic” \u2013 Kazoo<\/strong><\/h2>\n
9. Mozart \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Adagio in C major for glass harmonica<\/h2>\n
10. Beatles \u2013 “Norwegian Wood” \u2013 Sitar<\/strong><\/h2>\n