The beginning of Strawberries Mean Love was done with a guitar pick strumming the strings inside the grand piano.
Black Butter Present has a real Sitar played by Lee Freeman. We also had our engineer turn the tape over and record Lee's voice with reverse echo.
Mark Weitz played a Melodica on Go Back You're Going The Wrong Way.
I played fuzz bass on Sitting On A Star. They mixed it so low you can only hear it a little bit.
I rented a giant gong cymbal that i hit to start Ed King's guitar solo in Curse of The Witches.
I played Castanets on Sit With The Guru and I did a Maraca solo on Barefoot in Baltimore.
When we recorded Nightmare of Percussion there was a Foley effects set up already in the studio so I used the running board at the end of the nightmare as I was dying...lol
At the end of Unwind With The Clock Mark pressed the keys of his Farfisa organ and then turned it off too get what you hear.
In Shallow Impressions we all stood in a semi circle with different percussion instruments and we each played our sound as our turn came up. It was finger cymbal - triangle - Guiro - a glass
The intro was done with piano strings recorded with the reverse tape method and an echoplex. 
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In the wake of studio process innovations initiated by Pet Sounds and Sgt Pepper,did SAC also delve into the practice of what was referred to as "playing the studio.Also,I recently asked John Sebastian what he played at the beginning of She's a Mystery to Me and he said it was a Marxophone,which plays like a tiny piano with a mandolin sound.Are there any particularly exotic instruments in your records I may have missed?
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