Best instrument to play while drunk?

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Best instrument to play while drunk?

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Which is your choice for enjoyment with a low self harm form factor?
I slapped butter all over keys, knobs, cords, smeared screens with Coleslaw, pelted with Reese's Pieces, broke a Twix in half, stuck in... and after... I swung them all over above my head, pirouetted on their corners on top of a shaky rattan diner table spun like tops, but made sure nothing dropped. Toasted coconut n tested for salmonella were found in surprising places weeks after. I had so much fun.
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Nothing that you put in or near your face. Nothing delicate. Nothing requiring particularly fine motor control.

Maybe a novation circuit?
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Koekepan wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:37 pm Nothing that you put in or near your face. Nothing delicate. Nothing requiring particularly fine motor control.
I guess that rules out skin flute.
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albiedamned wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:59 pm
Koekepan wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:37 pm Nothing that you put in or near your face. Nothing delicate. Nothing requiring particularly fine motor control.
I guess that rules out skin flute.
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albiedamned wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:59 pm
Koekepan wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:37 pm Nothing that you put in or near your face. Nothing delicate. Nothing requiring particularly fine motor control.
I guess that rules out skin flute.
Goat or squid?
I slapped butter all over keys, knobs, cords, smeared screens with Coleslaw, pelted with Reese's Pieces, broke a Twix in half, stuck in... and after... I swung them all over above my head, pirouetted on their corners on top of a shaky rattan diner table spun like tops, but made sure nothing dropped. Toasted coconut n tested for salmonella were found in surprising places weeks after. I had so much fun.
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Vocal chords?
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Bodhran, of course :guinness:
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Theremin could be a hoot... would probably make that sound as well. :party:
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Anything with a HEADPHONE JACK.

Wait - you said self-harm. Never mind.
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Electronic wise, the lyra 8. Fun sober but damn more fun to explore quite inebriated. Some of the sounds might need liquid courage to explore anyway.

Physically. Come on, drums of course, preferably taiko and preferably naked.
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Piano
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wiperactive wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:41 pm Theremin could be a hoot... would probably make that sound as well. :party:
Nope. Way too easy to fall over and damage the antennas. Don't ask me how I know.

When I'm totally blasted, I like to play my musical saw. Out in the garage, so I don't get divorced.
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Ive played guitar very drunk(or worse) on stage in front of many thousands of people and survived, so I guess guitar?
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Flounderguts wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 10:42 pm
wiperactive wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:41 pm Theremin could be a hoot... would probably make that sound as well. :party:
Nope. Way too easy to fall over and damage the antennas. Don't ask me how I know.

When I'm totally blasted, I like to play my musical saw. Out in the garage, so I don't get divorced.
Seems dangerous...at least in terms of intonation.
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cscairney wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 10:37 pmPiano
Quick agree here. Nothing more fun to bang on drunk than a good (old and out of tune) piano. They're built for it!
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Drums
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For me Bastl Softpop!
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I love doing impromptu acid jams with just the Roland TR09, and the Behringer TD3. I’ve got a 606 on loan at the moment so I’m using that as well, using an old Roland MSQ as the midi and din sync source. Super fun!
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Alcohol: Guitar
Weed: Analog hardwired synth
Ritalin: Digital FM
Coke: Drums
LSD: Buchla
Meth: Whatever is easiest to pawn
Mushrooms: Your body which is your mind and all of the world is in it but does everyone see that dog starring at you?
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Maybe try a gong - it might tell you the time as well (if you live in an apartment):
"Friggin' hell, what's that noise at half past three in the morning?"

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GuyaGuy wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:30 am Alcohol: Guitar
Weed: Analog hardwired synth
Ritalin: Digital FM
Coke: Drums
LSD: Buchla
Meth: Whatever is easiest to pawn
Mushrooms: Your body which is your mind and all of the world is in it but does everyone see that dog starring at you?
Shit, I could relate to almost all of that (never pawned).
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Chainsaw.
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GuyaGuy wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:30 am Alcohol: Guitar
Weed: Analog hardwired synth
Ritalin: Digital FM
Coke: Drums
LSD: Buchla
Meth: Whatever is easiest to pawn
Mushrooms: Your body which is your mind and all of the world is in it but does everyone see that dog starring at you?
What about pcp? Maybe that would be something like playing a chainlink fence with your face.
I slapped butter all over keys, knobs, cords, smeared screens with Coleslaw, pelted with Reese's Pieces, broke a Twix in half, stuck in... and after... I swung them all over above my head, pirouetted on their corners on top of a shaky rattan diner table spun like tops, but made sure nothing dropped. Toasted coconut n tested for salmonella were found in surprising places weeks after. I had so much fun.
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Harmonica or Soma Pipe :hihi:
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GuyaGuy wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:30 am LSD: Buchla
Pffftt..I couldn't figure out how to work a kettle when I've been on LSD, I knew there was some way I could get tea out of it, but had no idea how to actually do that..I guess a Buchla might be nice to stare at..and stroke. :despair:
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