Top 15 Rare and Strange Musical Instruments 

“Clarinets one of the most recognizable instruments” **shows an oboe**

This guys mouth needs a mute button so we can actually hear the music he's trying to show us.

I can’t believe the theremin is not in this list.

"Clarinets are one of the most recognizable instruments" *Shows Oboe*

Good video but I wish the guy would have shut up long enough for me to hear what the instrument sounded like not 10 second clip that was played

I gave up when the "recognisable" clarinet was an oboe and the B flat Clarinet was an E flat.

3:37 "Clarinets are one of the most recognizable instruments" - Shows stock footage of an oboe. Nice

It would have been great to hear the music but the narrator just wouldn’t stay quiet.

The "j" in cajón is pronounced closest to the 'h' in the word hat. It's not a cashon. It's spanish for big box or drawer.

Hey, if you're hiring, I'd love to be hired as your pronunciation checker

My goodness the amount of misinformation in this video is absolutely unacceptable. And not featuring the actually sounds is just bad form. All in all, a trash video.

When watching this video you will need to pull up 15 separate tabs to look for the sounds of the instruments yourself.

3:39 If you’re gonna act like an expert on instruments maybe don’t say an oboes a clarinet

"The clarinet is one of the world's most recognizable instruments...." Video shows close up of an oboe.

Great video but what's the point of making a video about instruments if you don't let us listen to the instruments without talking for a bit??

As others have said, you didn't leave barely a second here or there to hear the instruments.

in the Philippines, we weirdly call the Cajon a "beatbox"

You know what would have been great? Actually hearing a good demonstration of the sound, not a 3 second clip with the rest drown out by narration.

"Clarinets are one of the most recognisable instruments" ...zooms in on an oboe.

Years ago I saw (on TV) an instrument called an Octobass It looks like a 12 foot cello! The guy playing it had to stand on a kind of raised platform. They are very rare. I hear there are only 5 or 6 in the world. They are THE lowest pitched stringed instruments. If you ever hear one the musician is probably playing that two-note "shark theme" from the movie "Jaws."

Santour is the antecessor to both the cymbelon and hammered dulcimer. The hurdy gurdy is better known as the vielle -I know about a dozen players (nad it's very similar to the nyckelharpa). Big instruments are not actually all that unknown. I know several hardanger players, and a whole lot of cajon players (and it's pronounced "ca-hone", btw). The stick dulcimer is just another version of a mountain dulcimer. I also know a number of balalaika players. Hangs are not even a little bit rare - the original ones are, but there are many similar variants available.. Chapman sticks aren't slightly rare either. Glass armonicas aren't particularly hard to find either. So, really not a particularly good video. The musical road was kinda coo - but I have heard of it.

"the balalaika is noticeably similar to a guitar, but there are some obvious differences , there are 3 strings instead of 4"...

Most interesting. Thank you!

It would be nice to actually hear them!

The glass armonica concept was used to make the sound at the beginning of Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (although live performances used a keyboard).

Love the wine glasses as an instrument! I can do it with... one lol

That’s coool (literally )

I would have included the Theremin. Quite interesting hearing and watching someone play the instrument. Seems like its peak popularity was in 1950s sci-fi outer space flicks like the 1951 original, "The Day The Earth Stood" scored by Bernard Hermann for example.

1:24 we have this too, but its waaay bigger and it stands on legs and its called cimbal

I played the contra-bass clarinet in "Nutcracker," in high school. Luckily I have Bose speakers on my computer.

BRO! I WANTED TO HEAR THE INSTRUMENTS, NOT JUST ONLY YOUR VOICE!! DAMN!

Cajon the J sounds like an H.

I bet if you took that musical road at full chat in a Lambo, it would sound like the bedroom scene in Clockwork Orange!

Can't hear the instruments because the narrator NEVER SHUTS UP.

This feels like a nonmusician’s idea of a list of rare instruments. One more for the bone-headed mistake list: It’s mixolydian, not mixolodian.

Octo contra-alto clarinet loool I love it.

I never knew a clarinet was also an oboe

Cajons are pretty popular

Lol that’s just a hammer dulcimer:) I’ve wanted one for years:) the renaissance festival often has them for sale, and they’re beautiful:) (but VERY expensive!)

I know this is about instruments that have existed in the past and now very few of them are left, making them rare, but anyone else slightly disapointed that the marble machine by Wintergatan isn't here?

That's cool

Bern, Germany. ..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

"Clarinet is well known" Shows am oboé

15 is too small a number. There's quite a few more instruments that should be mentioned including the blaster beam and the waterphone.

Imagine if Rammstein used the pyrophone

The Santora is very similar to the Hammered Dulcimer. The only real difference is the hammered dulcimer doesn't have multiple strings in groups like the santora does, just one string for each note.

Are we just gonna not talk about how at 3:13 there is a guy with a flute up his butt edit: also 3:39 that's not a clarinet that's an oboe

I can’t believe that there is only one of that clarinet type of instrument in the world. I really wanted to learn it

The santour is very common in Bavaria and Austria and is known as "Hackbrett", which is quite amusing because it means "chopping board".

The last note played by the bass clarinet reminds me of an old Peterbilt rolling downhill on the Jacobs brake.

I made my own Hurdy Gurdy that is 3D printable

I think our family drove along a kinda small section of musical road while going to Kentucky for a family trip to see the Mammoth Caves near Bowling Green..... I don't remember what the tune was, but we only became aware of the special road as we drove over it lol.

That contra clarinet sounds impressive

im surprised the Great Stalacpipe Organ didnt make the list

We have the hang instrument at our school, it's a whole different section in our music program

"leading to the greatest sounding music...which we won't let you hear" LOL

Cool video From my pov i think the strangest instrument sounding is a computer randomized sounds

Very interesting

Would be nice to hear the instruments instead of the incessant talking.

Santour is one of the main musical instrumemts in Iran. Many of my classmates and friends play it.

The Hang is a Swiss instrument of origin and the maker no longer sells them. It is most definitely not German as stated.

I LOVE the Luigi’s Mansion music from the clarinet.

i love the hurdy gurdy and have been trying to get one for years

What instrument do you play? The hurdy gurdy

Me, a musician: ah yes, the glockenspiel.

It would be amazing to create hydraulophones near bodies of water where the water is always being pumped by nature, such as waterfalls!

Those boxes are actually still popular. You can get them on Amazon

I have my Chapman Stick in my lap as I watch this.

Have you checked out the stalactite organ in Luray Caverns in Virginia? The hammers strike the stalactites to create the music. Very other-worldly.

Me: “oooh a cajon” **says the h sound** Him: “CaJoNe”

For everyone saying they showed an oboe not a clarinet, the clarinet is *next to the oboe.*

I play santour and it sounds is great i love it❤🇮🇷🇮🇷

I was waiting for the spoons to be mentioned. It's used in American folk music.

Saw a video on the musical road in california done by Tom Scott and how they misread the bluebrint making the piece out of tune.

I wish there was more actual sound from the instruments, instead of just video with a guy describing the sound. now i have to look up other videos just to see what they actually sound like. I kinda feel click-bated.

the Cajon is conventionally pronounced as "ca-hon"

The hurdy-gurdy is a favorite in my family.

In the tenth century Christian churches used an instrument called the organistrum. This was a large instrument that required two people to operate properly. One person turned the crank wile the other pressed the keys. The organistrum was the progenitor of two instruments in subsequent centuries. The well known pipe organ and the symphonia. The symphonia was a smaller instrument that is operated by a single person. But you know the symphonia by the pejorative term, Hurdy-Gurdy. A real Hurdy-Gurdy was a poor girl in the 1800s men would pay to dance with. The instrument of choice among the hurdy-gurdy girls was the symphonia. Ever sense then, the term hurdy-gurdy was contributed to the symphonia.

“Clarinets are one of the most recognizable instruments” *shows oboes and bassoons* “Cuh-john” *it’s pronounced cuh-hahn* also, cajons aren’t rare at all. I know so many people that play them, and literally so many churches have them as well.

Interesting, the santur looks pretty much exactly like the Hackbrett, which is common in Austrian folk-music.

most rare instruments of all time the cajon. Riiight

I thought synchronised bumps were weird enough.

For glass harmonica the only one pictured was the one of Benjamin Franklin, the others are similar concept but different instrument, and different playing style. But where was the finger-bowed electric zither, very beautiful quite rare. Or even rarer than a musical road, I believe there are 3 of those worldwide, the Stalacpipe Organ only one exists in the world in the Luray Caverns, in Luray, Virginia in the US, it is also currently the world's largest musical instrument.

The musical road was interesting, it's as if the road is a record, and the vehicle is a needle.

pretty sure either the guy has HUGE hands or that ain't a normal clarinet next to the big-o.

I think there’s a balalaika orchestra on Gotland, the big island in the middle of the Baltic

I need to know where that hurdy-gurdy painting came from

You should've put all the names in the description

I don't see the real life take of AniMusic's "Pipe Dream" that someone put together although it is strictly percussive from what I remember seeing of it

Cajón is pronounced like "cahon" the J in Spanish is pronounced like an H

God I love the santoor and the hurdy gurdy.

BE QUIET for a second so that we can HEAR the instrument! This video makes me want to scream!!!

Santoor is the Earliest member of Piano family...

"Instrument you have never head of"? Well, I have some records with hurdy-gurdy (e.g. by Patty Gurdy, Simon Wascher, and Göran Hallmarken), Hardanger fiddle, cajon, and/or Chapman stick (Tony Levin of King Crimson is the most famous player), and I have heard about most of the other instruments too. I assume that it is the presenter that never had heard about these instruments. The presenter talks about the clarinet and shows an oboe. Then mispronounces the Norwegian name Terje Lerstad. Furthermore, Bern is not a city in Germany, but the capital of Switzerland. When it comes to the glass armonica the video mostly shows glass harps and Franklin's glass armonica is only shown once. Check out the great video about the glass armonica on Rob Scallon's channel!

"Bern Germany" Nice to see that switzerland's capital is beeing very much respected

3:48 talks about clarinets and procedes to show footage of a bassoon please let me know if i got that wrong

I thought number 15 was gonna be burger king foot lettuce.

This video is music to my ears very nicely done,!👍🏻

I’ve heard of most of these

Ca”Joan “ oh fabulous