# The Most Annoying Sound Ever...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2006-03-05
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2006/03/the-most-annoying-sound-ever/

![The Most Annoying Sound Ever...](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/jbhsavart72.JPG)

Peter Grenader of Plan B just posted a link to [Savart's Wheel](http://www.windworld.com/feature_pages/savart.htm) on the Analog Heaven list. I clicked the link, and read that it "is widely acclaimed for the fact that it makes the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound imaginable."

I was, like, "whatever. I made industrial music for 15 years." Then I played the MP3. That claim is no joke. This little device is _nasty._ Not the sort of thing you want to hear when you have a toothache. Thanks, Peter.

## Comments (10)

**FromSynthToReal** (2006-03-05):

I guess I need to retire my electric mandolin.

**googoobaby** (2006-03-05):

I guess I need to retire my electric mandolin.

**InvisibleMensch** (2006-03-06):

Worse than an electric rake solo?

**Sargon** (2006-03-06):

I like it - where can I buy a sampleset for Halion? ;-)

Michael

**solipstnation** (2006-03-06):

Aw, that isn't so bad. It sounds kind of like somebody's playing an irritated chicken.

I once made a DX21 patch that could be played to actually sound like a dental drill inside your head, complete with extra nasty friction noise from the mod wheel. I could clear rooms with that one...

**Mark Beeson** (2006-03-06):

I call bullshit. Someone just sampled Yoko Ono singing and tweaked it a bit for that mp3.

**Solipsist Nation** (2006-03-06):

Aw, that isn't so bad. It sounds kind of like somebody's playing an irritated chicken.

I once made a DX21 patch that could be played to actually sound like a dental drill inside your head, complete with extra nasty friction noise from the mod wheel. I could clear rooms with that one...

**dm** (2006-03-06):

I like it! its like a cross between Ben Franklin's Galss Armonica and an electric chicken (whatever an electric chicken is...)

http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/images/glass_big.jpg

**Angstrom** (2006-03-06):

Bart Hopkin's book (musical instrument design) is really excellent and I recommend it to all musically inclined people. I got it as a break from electronics and it was an eye / ear opener.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884365086/qid=1141672394/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/203-9637859-7559158

also I'll point out this link here, which is in a related vein :
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/music/

**Mark** (2006-03-06):

I call bullshit. Someone just sampled Yoko Ono singing and tweaked it a bit for that mp3.