Instuments you hate/hated.. change of mind?

[pheeleep]

I have never liked the sound of the accordeon. I now realize it's probably because of the style of music that I would hear...

Anyway, I never got into the accordeon sound, but I recently started listening to Gotan Project ( La revancha del Tango ), and surely enough, I really like the accordeon in those songs.. let me tell ya.. that album is awesome!

Have any of you had a change of heart about an instrument you once hated, but now enjoy?

I still don't like the harmonica..

[Stupid American Pig]

I prefer the Harmonium to the Accordian, but both can be cool.

HMMMM, I used to like the analog subtractive synthesizer, until someone invented the hoover sound, now thats all I hear no matter how I tweak one.

I used to hate the sound of crunchy guitars, but now I cant live without them...

[wrench45us]

i just heard a piece on the alt radio station on the way to work this morning that ran an accordian through a phasor. It was very much as if it had two sets of bellows, one standard and another on the phasor.
That sort of accordian I could relate to. Unfortunately don't remember the artist.

[Paulie Phonick]

All instruments sound good to me, but when used in an appropriate context - I, for instance, hate violin improvisations in jazz (ok, except for some of Nigel Kennedy's stuff), but love violin played the classical way. My other dislike is orchestral sounds in rock/metal arrangements (but that's just me). Strangely, I can't remember changing my mind about any instrument...

[tetraplan]

I still don't like the harmonica..

You will after you hear Troum use it.
Oh, Troum make drone-ambient, by the way.

Groet, Erik

[waiting man]

when I was into metal (17/18 yrs old) I really thought synth were soooo gay.
fortunately, I'm so progressist now. (both on synths and gays)

I like timpani's sound, but how can a folk choose to play them? seriously. I can't think of something more boring.

[No name]

FM synth sounds, but now I love them. Just not those cheesy 80's ones though.

[Hovmod]

I still haven't warmed back up to Alto Sax after seing David Sanborn as supporting act for Al Jarreau (who I also can't stand) in the 80s.
I used to love sax, he killed it dead in a 30 minute KennyG wet dream set.

I have forgiven drums, which I thought was silly for several years.

Clarinet is only OK in slow melancholy Klezmer.

[Stupid American Pig]

UGH Kenny G did indeed KILL the SAX

[respirator]

I'm with you on the alto post Sanborn. Yikes! You could always listen to some Bird, though.

I've come to dislike the drum set - it imposes a lot of limits on music IMO.

But even drum sets and altos can be used in interesting and musical ways. So I think it's more about instruments becoming cliches in certain genres.

Oh yeah: Cowbells

[peejunk]

I often cringe at the sound of saxophone too. Thanks Kenny G.

[putte]

to me there are just 2 instruments i really can´t stand:
saxophone and pan flute ..

brrrrrrrrrrr

[stefancrs]

Uhm. Wasn't most of the posts in this thread posted long ago?

[griels]

I used to get a lift to school with a neighbour, whose dad would play the most horrendously cheezy trad jazz featuring what sounded like synthetic vibraphone on the car stereo. Hardly likely to win favour with a 14 year old Prodigy fan. For a looong time after that I thought I hated the vibraphones until I heard Roy Ayers doing his extremely funky thing on 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine'... Real vibraphone played well can be amazing... Check Cal Tjader or Lionel Hampton to further evidence.

I'm still largly allergic to the saxophone however, although it can occasionally be sublime when played well (John Coltrane for example).

[Kriminal]

Steel drums, still sound shit, especially when played at carnivals by yokels