Well, back in the late '70s there was an early SF industrial band called PRESSURE in which the front man played a pair of anvils with sledgehammers, but the weirdest instrument I've seen was in the '60s at the Cafe Au Go-Go in Greenwich Village. There was a musical comedy duo whose name escapes me at the moment the had something they called a "tromoblatt". It was a wind instrument consisting of a trombone with a bunch of other weird stuff added on - I don't remember exactly, but it had 2 or 3 different bells pointing in different directions, one of the was off a Sousaphone, tubing coiled everywhere, both keys and the trombone slide, just bizarre. It made a noise kinda of like an elephant farting. If I recall correctly it took 2 people to operate.
There's a guy in San Francisco who sometimes performs as a street musician who has a very elaborate instrument that is essentially a heavily expanded hammered dulcimer, which he plays holding two mallets in each hand, rather than the conventional one.
I've never actually seen any of them, but the experimental composer
Harry Partch was famous for creating strange microtonal instruments.
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