I’m thinking things like harp and marimba
You can really feel the waves of sound
The cello. Fuckin’ love it.
I came in here all wrong. I was going to say a large office printer/copy machine has that thrum you feel, the rhythm of each page flipping and printing, and the smell of warm micro plastics.
Upright piano with the front panel taken off
Organ i think, but it probably helps that it’s usually played in a big stony building (church).
Whats the most mellow organ sound/playing or example you know of for organ? Like resonant and enveloping but mellow timbre and probably lower register for pitch
Hang / Hand pan and Hurdy Gurdy!
The humble kalimba has some of the qualities I think you are describing. Also just a regular nylon string guitar.
Feed me brussel sprouts and I can really feel the waves of sound.
They’re like little depth charges.
- Steel drums do this for me
- Oboes
- some brass instruments (depends on the player…if they can achieve that crystal clear tone)
- Taiko ensembles!
- if live, mandolin, dulcimer, lute
Edit 1: The venue acoustics will also factor heavily too.
Edit 2: ooh! Didgeridoos! Also best if live.
Gong
Singing bowls / tibetan bowlsAll of them if you’re on enough LSD!
The French horn, from someone who knows how to play it well.
