Think of a musical instrument

[koganbot]

Think of a musical instrument.

What was the first instrument that crossed your mind when I instructed you just now to think of a musical instrument?

(See comments.)

Comments

Re: Drums (think of a musical instrument)

[koganbot]

I was hoping for such a response — drum! — but I wasn't necessarily expecting it.

I expect most readers here are from the westernized middle-class, or some bohemian sidestep or offshoot of it (even if they've long fallen out of the middle class financially). And, unless they were embedded early in African American or African European culture, most who are my age, or your age, probably connect the word "instrument" to a primal sense of melodies and songs rather than beats or tones or counterrhythms — even if as kids we clapped along, and even if since then we've partially Africanized or discofied our understandings.

So you are a happy challenge to my expectation.