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* The Detragan from ''[[Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva]]'', which appears to combine a pipe organ, a harp, an accordion, tubular bells, numerous brass instruments, and an entire drumset. The whole thing is played using a single keyboard.

 

* [[Gaston Lagaffe]]

** The Gaffophone (see picture), a homemade string/horn instrument whose use invariably results in [[For Massive Damage|massive]] [[Glass-Shattering Sound|damage]]. The sound the Gaffophone makes is the result of the overlap between [[Brown Note]] with [[Loud of War]]. Psychological and collateral damage all rolled up into one. It causes ''plants'' to commit suicide...

* A ''[[Star Trek]]'' comic introduced the Elisiar, a device with three horseshoe-shaped keyboards and a mobius-strip of xylophone bars.

 

* The traveling merchant who sells musical instruments in ''[[The Smurfs and the Magic Flute]]'' produces one while showing of his wares. He even admits that he doesn't know what it is but says it sure makes a lot of noise.

* Some of the instruments played by the band in the cantina at Mos Eisley in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]''.

* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' has one of the more twisted examples: prisoners are in a cage, and you press the keys to make sticks jab them in various places, with the music being their cries of pain. (You kind of have to hear it to understand how this could sound like music, but it does.)

 

* Many examples in the [[Dr. Seuss]] books, to the point that Seussaphone might be a good alternate title.

* In [[Michael Moorcock]]'s novels, the decadent and cruel Melniboneens have certain slaves [[And I Must Scream|surgically modified]] so they can utter only a single tone each. They only make an instrument when a large group of them is assembled into a chorus.

* In ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', a pipe organ created by [[Bungling Inventor|Bloody Stupid Johnson]] is so complicated and laden with special effects that only the Librarian can properly play it, with all four limbs. It also happens to be crosslinked with a fancy bath in another building, unbeknownst to anyone.

 

* ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'' has "tubes", a Taelon musical instrument which also has something of a holographic visual accompaniment.

* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has bunches of them:

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* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' brings us the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCumzdtaA7w porkarina], which is supposed to re-create the incidental music in ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', ''[[Green Acres]]'', and ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'' that sounded like a pig grunting.

 

* [[Animusic]] creates a wide variety of fantastic (in both senses of the word) instruments for their music videos, ranging from balls being shot out of pipes, to lasers, to odd and automated machines, to some gigantic, Frankensteinian conglomeration of string instruments.

 

* ''[[The Muppet Show]]''

** In an episode, Crazy Harry plays the explodaphone.

* On ''[[The Banana Splits]]'', Fleagle had the Calliopasaxaviatrumparimbaclaribasotrombaphone.

 

* The Silverodeon from ''[[Girl Genius]]'': part organ, part anything-you-can-fit-in-there. Also, the musical notation used in the series is quite otherworldly.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Jade plays the eclectic bass. It resembles an electric bass guitar, but with multiple necks and built-in keyboard synths. Only Jade's dream self can play it properly, because only her dream self can grow the necessary extra arms.

 

* The holophonor from ''[[Futurama]]'', which creates its own visual accompaniment. It's so difficult that only a few humans can play it, and most of them aren't that good at it.

* ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'' plays the Garglepipes, mostly to annoy Candy.

* The "invented instrument" with no other name that Carlos created in an episode of ''[[The Magic School Bus]]''. He adds all sorts of bells and whistles on it, leading to Mrs. Frizzle to give a lesson on sound, and ''why'' it doesn't work.

* Most of the instruments in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' are real Asian instruments, but then there's the tsungi horn, which has a funny name on top of being completely fictional.

* Quite a few positively psychotic examples from [[Dr. Seuss]]'s ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''.

 

* [[Benjamin Franklin]] invented the Glass Armonica, sort of a cross between a lathe and those guys who play wine glasses by running a moistened finger along their rims.

** The reason it fell out of style was because it was noted long time players got sick. Turned out glass back then contained lead.