The cello. Fuckin' love it.
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Upright piano with the front panel taken off
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.
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 bowls
All of them if you're on enough LSD!
The French horn, from someone who knows how to play it well.