In old movies, whenever you see a pair of women's legs in stockings getting out of a car, it's a safe bet they'll be accompanied with a smoky saxophone solo. When they show a skeleton on a childrens' show, odds are good they'll be playing xylophone music to go with it. But what instrument should you play when the earlobe is the bodily part under consideration? And how about the pancreas? This game is an attempt to address the issue. Either suggest a bodily part, and the music to go with it, or just the part, or just the instrument, and see if the colelctive wisdom of this forum can help out.
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Raak - A low, soft drum roll on the timps. What would capture the uniqueness of the bellybutton?
irach - An entire naval band of course. How about the cutucles, though?
irach - ...cuticles, that is.
Simons Mith - Finger cymbals [Pen] Interesting - I reckoned teeth, for triangle, meself. Nice shiny white tooth - ting!

All right, what about the bagpipes? Try to keep it clean if you can :-)

Raak - A large bag, purifying a constant stream of air into music: must be the liver. What for the eyes?
Simons Mith - [Raak] Oh, that's what it does. I often wondered.
irach - A waterphone, since the eyes are like limpid pools. Yet, what's an appropriate instrument for the appendix?
Software - Something practically useless? Ah, of course, the Suzaphone. Now what about the philtrum?
penelope - A looping note from the swannee whistle 'switswoo'! Apologies if I take things downhill, but this has been puzzling me. The, um, arse cleavage?
Darren - As with any valley, it's full of hollow echoes, which ring like tubular bells. What about the shoulder blades?
irach - An African blade Balafon would do. Now, I wonder, what goes with vertebrae?
Raak - Very spiky: the harpsichord (the sound of which has been described as "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof). What about the arch of the foot? And would it be different for flat feet?
ImNotJohn - I think that would be a musical saw - handles any curvature of arch. How about the elbow?
irach - A musical bow would be both elbow-shaped and as comical as the funny bone; yet I wonder about the musical accompaniment to the tonsils.
Simons Mith - I'm not entirely sure why, but I think cowbells. Just a gut feeling. What about the occiput?
Raak - A Tibetan singing bowl. The eyebrows?
Simons Mith - If they're big thick bushy eyebrows, I suggest the cello. For thinner ones, a lighter stringed instrument - perhaps the viola? Now, what about the hippocampus?
irach - I believe hippocampus is reminiscent of a campy hippo, so a double bass that sounds like a bellowing campy hippo in heat would be appropriate. But the fibula?
Simons Mith - A small li– er, lyre. Jugular vein?
Projoy - boomwhackers. How about the shoulder
Simons Mith - Clearly a tricky one. Ponders… Aha! Given that the shoulder has a wider range of movement than just about any other body part, it needs a very flexible instrument. The theremin's already been taken, but what about the daxophone? Perfect!

Next part: Toenails

irach - Castanets, I'd say. They kind of sound like the click-clack sound of grossly overgrown toenails hitting on a wood floor. Now how about the prostate?
Raak - A garden hose with a trumpet mouthpiece inserted, this being about as sensible as the prostate. The larynx?
Simons Mith - Ocarina? Uvula?
irach - A viola perhaps. This one should be easy- the eardrum?
Software - That's easy. Ringing in the ears with a Tamborine, but what about the vagina?
Kim - Cello. Beecham (it is said) once remarked to a lady cellist thus (or roughly thus): "Madam, you have between your legs something that has fascinated the minds of men for generations and all you can do is sit there and scratch it!". Who here plays the Armpit?
Raak - The French horn. How about the spinal cord?
ImNotJohn - That's a Gamelan if I'm not mistaken. I'm not so sure about the Collar Bone
irach - A Ukranian Bandura, I think- it's curve resembles that of a collarbone. But how about the Stapes bone?
Simons Mith - A 1/10th scale violin. Skin?
Raak - The one-stringed fiddle has a suitably thin, stretched tone.

Are we running out of parts? The brain has to be the mighty Wurlitzer ascending from the cinema pit, with fifteen manuals, three pedal boards, a vast array of stops and couplers, and played by the mad organist whose brain it is. Little does he know that he is merely providing commentary for the pictures on the screen, not creating them.

Simons Mith - We may not be running out, but I think we've covered all the bases, pretty much. Bones, joints, limbs, organs, have all been well-represented. Ah, here's a new one: the coccyx.
irach - A Pushtu rabab fits the bill. The pegboard at its one end resembles the point of the coccyx. How about the nasal sinuses?
Graham III - The Duduk fits the bill perfectly. How about the lymph nodes?
Simons Mith - Something pretty obscure, obviously. And as the lymph nodes are intimately related to the immune system, I suspect something wierd and mysterious. Perhaps the Great Stalacpipe Organ? On which note, b'dum tish, I think we should finish this game off.
Audience
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Simons Mith*
KagomeShuko - The hurdy-gurdy (it plays all of two notes) . . .
Giertrud - The appendix. Used in the middle ages and renaissance, but not so useful anymore. The appendix, is theorized to have been useful in the past, but now is a vestigial organ. But what about the Lute? Will this question bear fruit?
KagomeShuko - The Lute - why, the uvula, obviously! Now, it's time to tell me why
An instrument should be used to accompany a thigh!
Giertrud - A Cuica. A squeaky chafe-y sound... Some people claim it sounds like a chicken. Mmmm Chicken thigh. How about nose hair?
Simons Mith - Jew's harp? (Rather late, I admit, but that one just came to me while I was browsing this old game.)
This is the end of the line. There is no more.