The Search for an Obscure Instrument

So last week I decided I would learn an obscure instrument. Why? Why not. I'm kind of addicted to finding random things on Amazon (like the head massager I have coming in the mail--woohoo! It sounds weird but if you tried it, you'd be obsessed.) Here are some of the instruments I was looking into (each costs about $20):

1.

The ocarina. This would be cool because apparently Link plays it in Zelda.

2.

The panpipes. This would be cool because apparently Peter Pan plays it. I guess I'm intrigued by instruments played by fictional characters.

3.

The Irish pennywhistle. There's a youtube video of this girl playing the Harry Potter theme song on it and it's perfect.

4.

The kalimba. It's African--need I say more? It sounds absolutely beautiful if you get one with lots of keys:



but sounds pretty lame when it only has 9 keys... and the ones with more than nine keys are freaking expensive.

5.

The mijwiz. These are Middle Eastern and have a cool name (big selling point). Unfortunately, they are hard to master--you play both flutes at the same time. The funniest thing about the mijwiz is the buying recommendation that came up along with the page on Amazon:

If people are buying this instrument with goat leggings, it must be pretty legit.

So after hours of looking up prices/difficulty levels/youtube videos of several unique instruments, I started to seriously imagine myself with one of them and decided I'd never actually use it. I didn't buy one  and saved myself the money. I guess you could say I'm fickle.