I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.
