Guitars And Other Instruments
When you talk about or even think about rock and roll you immediately think electric guitars, bass guitars, and drums. Through the years the use of other instruments not associated with rock have been used.
Going back to late 50’s Buddy Holly and the Crickets used a “Celesta” in the song “Everyday”. If you have never seen a celesta it looks just like an upright piano. It is also related to the “glockenspiel”, although with a softer tone. The celesta was used on Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy”, that’s how rare it was to rock and roll at the time Holly used it.
During the 70’s there was a band called Starbucks, the name of the song was “Moonlight Feels Right”, this song made use of a xylophone. Also in the 70’s and 80’s ELO who in the year 2000 started up again made use of violins and cellos, as they were known as a symphonic rock group.
These are only a few of the non traditional instruments that have been used along side the electric guitars of rock and roll.