What instrument is this?

[Tetris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmy5xCUsa3w @ 1:27

there is a plucking string instrument

what is that instrument?

[Ad Bot]

[Buu]

sounds like some makeshift instrument.

[SeventhSandwich]

Impossible to tell.

[Clone v.117]

Any string instrument ever.
And anything with a string attached to it.

On one hand this means we can't tell you, on the other hand it means it doesn't matter because you can replicate the sound by taping a string to a box and flicking it.

[Planr]

all we can really tell you is the obvious
and everything you already know

:u

[Buu]

Its a pair of rubber bands in tension from my research

[Renekar]

mayonnaise

[Acerblock]

I have a slight feeling it's a Shamisen.

[BluetoothBoy]

I agree with Acerblock. I'd imagine that the same instrument used in the earlier part of the song would be used to make the sounds at 1:27. That instrument, as far as I can tell, does seem to be a shamisen or similar instrument.

[Darksaber2213]

It sounds strikingly like an esiannoyam or something similar.

[MackTheHunter]

It's a double bass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass

You get this sound when you press a note and basically smack the strings.

[Buu]

It's a double bass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass

You get this sound when you press a note and basically smack the strings.

you can also slide a rubber glove on down the strings for a pleasant surprise

[Tayasaurus]

Oh I was thinking Sitar

[danisaac5]

It sounds like a double bass with a stuffload of effects.

[Caribou]

It sort of sounds like the lowest cello note.