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Piano or Violin for solo instruments, but I love a good concerto or symphony.

Vibraphone and marimba

Very close, steel drum

Dual-rectified electric guitar.

Strung Out - Bring out Your Dead

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Tool - Forty Six & 2

Drums - pretty much any single by Street Drum Corp

Probably acoustic guitar tbh, I love acoustic covers, but Piano is amazing too, and electric guitar.

Acoustic covers are just so raw and nice to listen to.

IDK why, but the hurdy gurdy has a pretty alluring sound, in my opinion. So I'm probably going with either that or acoustic guitar.

Edit:

I really like this song using hurdy gurdy because to me it kinda sounds like a soundtrack piece for some prison action film.

Electric guitar.

Not a single instrument, but I love a horn section, too.

Piano. Supertramp, "From Now On".

And the sax in that tune is pretty great also.

Just love a heavy well produced guitar riff. Might be a boring answer but that’s the one for me.

I love a good piano piece.

One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/zucBfXpCA6s

I'm big fan of pianos (but not all piano genres) and I have learned that I really like piano run through a phaser and doubled with a Japanese koto

Oboe. Anything from the Dream Academy albums would qualify. It has a nice pure sound almost like a vocal.

In second place would be the sitar, or the Hammond Organ if someone is rockin out. The Peddlers, or Fanny would be good examples of excellent Hammond.

Trumpet. I think it's cause that's the instrument I first learned music on in elementary school.

Pipe Organ

When I think of a classical instrument, I think cello - specifically this piece Shadow of Doubt by Yoko Kanno, where it has such a brooding tone and power.

Being a synthesizer nerd, I like those most, but they have such varied tones among them and even on the same synth; 4x Atlantis by Aphex Twin probably captures one of the tones I most love, and the entire "Orphans" piece hits much of the range.

I dunno about favourite but Kamancheh sounds pretty lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6D_3sBN3FM&t=224

The hurdy-gurdy is so pleasant to listen too. I love the drone notes it can play.

Like as the main or only instrument in a song? Probably Spanish guitar. See "Vamo Alla Flamenco" from Final Fantasy 9. I wanna say Diablo 2 had a good Spanish guitar track too, but no idea what it's called.

Saxophone. But not always because it's smooth. Because sometimes it ROCKS...

https://youtu.be/7QFNAtnUDJ8

...Or because it's crazier than anything you've ever heard!

https://youtu.be/BARAHLk-8dk

Man, I love me some guzheng nowadays.

Drums in music. I always zero in on the percussion patterns.

The Cello, loved it so much that I started learning to play it at around 30.

https://youtu.be/7_8yPpCjK_w

Roland TB-303. It's the synth that launched so much electronic music. Examples are legion, but one of my favorites is Psychic TV "E-male:" https://youtu.be/o2U3joQ9oFI

Generally considered among the penultimate 303 examples are:

• "Higher State of Consciousness" by Josh Wink (https://youtu.be/NdaqXjDtXkQ)
• "Acperience 1" by Hardfloor (https://youtu.be/Un4CeV_l3pI)

Saxophone

I love horns in music, especially the trumpet. It's why I'm a big fan of Cake, they have a prominent role for the trumpet in a lot of their songs. The best has to be the trumpet solo in Italian Leather Sofa (starts around 2:10) but they have other great ones too.

Hurdy Gurdy

Harpsichord. Its just such a nice and unique timbre

Hammond B3. Mmmmm.

If you just keep it to the basic instrument drums probably.

If we are allowing it then a heavily distorted guitar tuned stupidly low. But is it the instrument or the various electronics that make the sound?

Classical guitar, here's Nocturne by Chopin.

Sitar!

Accordion, dammit Accordion!

Bamboo flute!