Songs About Musical Instruments

Musicans often say their music speaks for them, they speak of music being a language, so these are songs about their instruments.

This is Eric Clapton with George Harrison’s, ‘While My Guitar gentrly weeps’

This is The Lemon Pipers with ‘My Green Tamborine’

Everyone’s favourite drunk, Tom Waites with  ’The Piano Has been Drinking’. Of course it has. From ‘Fernwood Tonight’

Diana Ross with ‘My Old piano’. Is there a law against this? Pianophilia?

The glorious modern folk instrumental of The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, ‘Music for a Found Harmonium’

And another quintessentially English band, with links to Monty Python’s flying Circus, The Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band with ‘Intro and Outro’.  J Arthur Rank on Gong, a very relaxed Hitler on vibes, and the Count Basie Orchestra on triangle. Pure Genius.