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The theremin.

My physics teacher showed me this today. He actually has one!

Some recommended videos:

Legend of Zelda theme
Deleted scene from It Might Get Loud featuring an old Jimmy Page and a smoking Jack White
Star Trek theme (Yes, the wailing noise in the original is actually a Theremin)
This monstrosity

EDIT: Creep is a lot more interesting on theremin!

Theremin ftw. Would probably take forever to master, but looks well worth it.

Legend of Zelda: Theremin of Time

Tenori on is so awesome as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQtjDgTtTtc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-lJzKIzDE

It's electronic, but it's damn awesome. It combines the Etch-A-Sketch with a midi synth, yet the images that you create actually register as notes. It looks awesome and you can do some pretty awesome whit with it.

On the theramin, it is really damn awesome. Just the fact that your physics teacher has one makes him/her that much more awesome.

Midsomer Murders was done on a theremin? Hot damn.

I dunno. The ocarina is pretty dope.

If we're being serious, the coolest instrument is the double bass. If not:

I'm a big fan of the Hang. Shpongle do some amazing stuff with it. :)

My favorite instrument is the piano/keyboard. I'm so boring.

Mine is the drumset.

Tommy wrote:Mine is the drumset.

I would say drums are the most fun to play and fool around on (though I'm a little biased, as drums were the instrument I picked up most naturally out of all the instruments I used to play). But I think in terms of sonic capabilities, the piano has it beat. Of course, you can customize drumsets an enormous number of ways, so there's that.

I've seen a little flash thing like the theramin online somewhere ages ago, but I don't remember where. I'm pretty sure it was shared in #N, and I have a vague memory of pavs being the one to find it. Anyone know where that thing went?

smartalco wrote:I've seen a little flash thing like the theramin online somewhere ages ago, but I don't remember where. I'm pretty sure it was shared in #N, and I have a vague memory of pavs being the one to find it. Anyone know where that thing went?

Any idea when it was? I've got logs for the past few years on this computer, and god knows I spent enough time in the channel. It may be in there.

smartalco wrote:I've seen a little flash thing like the theramin online somewhere ages ago, but I don't remember where. I'm pretty sure it was shared in #N, and I have a vague memory of pavs being the one to find it. Anyone know where that thing went?

Funny, I don't remember this at all.

squibbles wrote:

smartalco wrote:I've seen a little flash thing like the theramin online somewhere ages ago, but I don't remember where. I'm pretty sure it was shared in #N, and I have a vague memory of pavs being the one to find it. Anyone know where that thing went?

Any idea when it was? I've got logs for the past few years on this computer, and god knows I spent enough time in the channel. It may be in there.

My guess would be somewhere between a year or two ago, but I'm not even sure if the thing was called a Theramin, so I'm not sure what you'd search for.

It's not Drawdio is it?

No, not even close.

The thing I'm thinking of was a grid of cells with an advancing time bar (like the Theramin), and each row was a different note. It was only like 10x10 though. This was on a site with a few other random audio-manipulation type things (mostly done as experiments I think), like I remember one that just output a continues sound wave where you could adjust the frequency, intensity, and shape (sine, square, saw-tooth type thing) of the wave.

Tone Matrix!

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

smartalco wrote:like I remember one that just output a continues sound wave where you could adjust the frequency, intensity, and shape (sine, square, saw-tooth type thing) of the wave.

Yes!

l'oeuvre wrote:Tone Matrix!

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

Aha!

To take the question literally, I think instruments made out of glacier ice are definitely the coolest.
An ice trumpet. How cool is that?

The problem with the theremin is that you have to stand absolutely and completely still for the whole song. Can you imagine doing that in a concert? It must be torture.

This is on the site and some other random audio processing and the like, as I remember a sound wave in a continuous output only where you can adjust the frequency, intensity and waveform...

Confound these bots and their legitimate contributions to the thread. >:[