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** Not to mention ''SteamboatWillie'', especially the uncut version. Mickey plays ducks, cats, pigs, and a cow.
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* B&Q, a hardware chain in the UK, ran a radio advertising campaign with E. Grieg's "Morning" from ''Peer Gynt'' played on power tools.

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* ''{{Team Fortress 2}}'': A common [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutator]], fans often take the sound effects (like the Scout's "BONK!") and make music of it. The Mario 1-1 theme and the Mortal Kombat theme are two of the most popular.

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* ''{{Team Fortress 2}}'': ''TeamFortress2'': A common [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutator]], fans often take the sound effects (like the Scout's "BONK!") and make music of it. The Mario 1-1 theme and the Mortal Kombat theme are two of the most popular.


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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_VgSmHdI7Q Ah]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oO7xEGhtgY em]].
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* The Plasmatics were known for using and listing chainsaws and machineguns as instruments
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* The 2010 movie ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6atXeqyMQ Sound of Noise]]'' features a supposed terrorist group using EverythingIsAnInstrument as their weapon of choice.
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** "For Felix (And All The Rats)" from the same album - ''A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure'' - uses the bowed bars of their deceased pet rat's cage as the primary sound source. [[TearJerker It is truly heartbreaking.]]
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* The Smurflings in ''TheSmurfs'' upstaged Brainy's orchestral performance in one story (and episode) with music from instruments made of junk.
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* All Psapp songs are made using toys.

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* This troper has seen a band called Clayhill (supporting BethOrton), whose set included a track called "Weird Beard" which required somebody to play a pair of scissors.

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* This troper has seen a A band called Clayhill (supporting BethOrton), whose set included a track called "Weird Beard" which required somebody to play a pair of scissors.




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* CDR has done this on and off since he began. He's done tracks with tape machines, squeaky toys, bits of cellophane and other things.
* Nicolash, to the point where the list of instruments can be several lines long and include such things as sticks tables, cellular phones, mp3 players, water bottles, candy wrappers, and his own jacket.
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* [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/epicwinftw/videos/1/140.083/ This thing.]]

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* [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/epicwinftw/videos/1/140.083/ This thing.Techno Jeep.]]
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** Done even earlier with "Wellington's Victory," one of Ludwig van Beethoven's least-known orchestral works, which calls for cannon shots and musket fire from two sides.
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* Sufficiently large MIDI keyboards and synthesizers will often boast such "instruments" as like "Gunshot", "Helicopter" or "Rain".
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* The Infernal Noise Brigade, an anti-globalization, anti-consummerist marching band, preferred to make their "instruments" out of trash as part of their message.
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** On their "Interesting People" sketch, they had "The March of the Men of Harlech", peformed on bicycle bells.
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* Spike Jones' version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qcL2-YeIIk "You Always Hurt the One You Love"]], starting at about the minute-and-a-half mark. (And just Spike Jones in general, but that particular song is probably one of the most famous.)

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* Spike Jones' version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qcL2-YeIIk com/watch?v=HRqWWRCT5Cs "You Always Hurt the One You Love"]], starting at about the minute-and-a-half mark. (And just Spike Jones in general, but that particular song is probably one of the most famous.)
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** They also came up with "Music For A Found Harmonium", which was played on... yep, a harmonium they found in a back street in Japan.
*** That is not a true example unless the melody had another item that would not be considered to be a musical instrument because the harmonium is a musical instrument.
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***That is not a true example unless the melody had another item that would not be considered to be a musical instrument because the harmonium is a musical instrument.
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** And don't forget about ''Marty the Rabbit Boy and his Musical Blender''!
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** For those of you not in on this, [[http://www.last.fm/music/Jackyl/_/The+ Lumberjack?autostart give this a listen.]]

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** For those of you not in on this, [[http://www.last.fm/music/Jackyl/_/The+ Lumberjack?autostart fm/music/Jackyl/_/The+Lumberjack?autostart give this a listen.]]

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* [[{{MIA}} M.I.A.]] used drills as percussion on "Steppin Up."
* On [[{{Bjork}} Björk]]'s ''Vespertine'' (in which Matmos played a role in the programming), there are various sampled sounds, like shuffling cards on "Cocoon" and "Hidden Place", snow being walked upon on "Aurora", and ice being cracked and smashed on "Frosti."
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** ''TheMuppetShow'' did a neat little skit set in a library, with Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and company playing it by coughing, rustling papers, tapping pencils, etc., and a librarian trying to shush them.

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** ''TheMuppetShow'' did a neat little skit set in a library, with Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and company playing it by coughing, rustling papers, tapping pencils, etc., and a librarian trying to shush them.
them. All the more impressive by the fact that the Muppet Show ended several years before SuperMarioBrothers came out.
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* It's very likely that this was how instruments came to being in the first place, as the first proto-humans experimented with the objects around them and what sounds they made.

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Music has a [[NewerThanTheyThink long tradition]] behind it, and with any tradition comes traditions of form and style. For music, there are certain things that are considered musical instruments and certain things which aren't. For example, you wouldn't be surprised to hear a violin playing music, but if you were to hear a chainsaw playing a well-known melody, you would be.

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Music has a [[NewerThanTheyThink long tradition]] tradition behind it, and with any tradition comes traditions of form and style. For music, there are certain things that are considered musical instruments and certain things which aren't. For example, you wouldn't be surprised to hear a violin playing music, but if you were to hear a chainsaw playing a well-known melody, you would be.


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* The DeepPurple song "Fireball" features the air conditioner in the studio being turned on in the beginning.

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* Penguin Cafe Orchestra's ''A Telephone and a Rubber Band,'' which is played on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a telephone and a rubber band]] (and strings).

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* Penguin Cafe Orchestra's ''A Telephone and a "Telephone And Rubber Band,'' Band", which is played on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a telephone and a rubber band]] (and strings).strings).
** They also came up with "Music For A Found Harmonium", which was played on... yep, a harmonium they found in a back street in Japan.




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* This troper has seen a band called Clayhill (supporting BethOrton), whose set included a track called "Weird Beard" which required somebody to play a pair of scissors.
* Tilly And The Wall earn credit for ditching the drummer and having their rhythm provided by Jamie Presnall's tap dancing.



* This troper has seen a band called Clayhill (supporting BethOrton), whose set included a track called "Weird Beard" which required somebody to play a pair of scissors.

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* This troper has seen a band called Clayhill (supporting BethOrton), whose set included a track called "Weird Beard" which required somebody to play a pair of scissors.
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* ''Concerto for Horn and Hardart'' by P.D.Q. Bach. The "Hardart" of the title is a musical instrument in which each note is produced by a different method: bell, whistle, plucked string, popped balloon, etc.

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* ''Concerto for Horn and Hardart'' by [[PDQBach P.D.Q. Bach.Bach]]. The "Hardart" of the title is a musical instrument in which each note is produced by a different method: bell, whistle, plucked string, popped balloon, etc.

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* Anathallo, on the album ''Floating World'', used sounds of shuffling cards and rattling chains as percussion. And, while everybody and their mom has used hand-clapping before, Anathallo's use in [[http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/A+ Song+ For+ Christine/6jujL "A Song for Christine"]] goes BeyondTheImpossible.

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* Anathallo, on the album ''Floating World'', used sounds of shuffling cards and rattling chains as percussion. And, while everybody and their mom has used hand-clapping before, Anathallo's use in [[http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/A+ Song+ For+ Christine/6jujL [[http://tiny.cc/nn0z1 "A Song for Christine"]] goes BeyondTheImpossible.



* {{''Phineas and Ferb''}} have the titular characters on a holiday reformatory school in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", starting a tune by brushing the floor with a toothbrush.

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* {{''Phineas ''{{Phineas and Ferb''}} Ferb}}'' have the titular characters on a holiday reformatory school in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", starting a tune by brushing the floor with a toothbrush.
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* In the 1999 Disney film Film/{{Tarzan}}, the song "Trashin' the Camp" is this trope, with instruments ranging from a typewriter and glass bell-jar percussion to an (elephant-enhanced) gramophone trumpet.

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* In the 1999 Disney film Film/{{Tarzan}}, Disney/{{Tarzan}}, the song "Trashin' the Camp" is this trope, with instruments ranging from a typewriter and glass bell-jar percussion to an (elephant-enhanced) gramophone trumpet.
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* This troper has seen a band called Clayhill (supporting BethOrton), whose set included a track called "Weird Beard" which required somebody to play a pair of scissors.
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* {{''Phineas and Ferb''}} have the titular characters on a holiday reformatory school in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", starting a tune by brushing the floor with a toothbrush.

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