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Bands whose regular line-up includes an instrument not normally found in their chosen genre. Only groups who use a particular instrument regularly, so not ones who brought in a cor anglais player for one particular recording or ones where the guitarist played sitar on a couple of songs in 1968. I'm also discounting groups who are so far left field that they eschew traditional instruments altogether.
My top three are so unsurpassable that the rest of you might just as well argue about who should be at numbers 4 & 5.

5) Silver Apples (oscillators)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38hk2k8idQ

4) Angel Corpus Christi (accordion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHEcLaQkKqI

3) The Thirteenth Floor Elevators (jug)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPJFjO1Jms

2) The Velvet Underground (viola)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQzaLr1enE

1) The Monks (banjo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3fAzQzgeSc

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

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My anorak leanings are so lean, I could only come up with The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra's propensity towards bin-lids.

Can we have songs you love by bands you usually hate instead?

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

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Isn't it a bit conventional to think of instruments having a particular genre? I don't agree that viola is not rock, since the great Neil Walsh sports a mean one (but I would accept that viola players wouldn't get a gig before the VU). And where does a mellotron sit? Anyway, here is my tu'pennyworth:

Clinic use a Philips Philicordia, which is just a type of organ but very unusual.

The United States of America used electric harpsichord, calliope and ring modulator, among other things.

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Alas, not actually Gryff Rhys Jones...

"Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

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Didn't The Darkness once have a bassoonist in the band?

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.