John Barham, who contributed to much of the Western music used in the soundtrack, wrote the arrangement for flutes, oboes and trumpet.
Barham also played piano and flugelhorn on "Dream Scene". Tommy Reilly played chromatic harmonica, having originally been invited to contribute to the country-and-western piece "Cowboy Music". In author Simon Leng's description, the London recordings for Wonderwall engendered a spirit of improvisation and spontaneity among Harrison's fellow musicians, which "let the music 'create itself'" from his ideas. Among the participants were avant-garde designers the Fool – Simon Posthuma, Marijke Koger and Josje Leeger – who had created the psychedelic-themed sets for Massot's film. According to musicologist Walter Everett, the Fool played woodwind instruments on "Dream Scene".
Other sounds and instrumentation on the Western portions of the track include drums, electric guitar, sound effects, backwards tape loops, and Mellotron. The Eastern sounds include hand drums, sitar and singing, the last of which Harrison sourced from a recording in EMI's tape library at Abbey Road. While author Bruce Spizer writes that the Indian musicians may well have included Aashish Khan and percussionist Mahapurush Misra, both of whom contributed to the Wonderwall soundtrack in London in December 1967, Harrison recorded most of the Indian music for the film in Bombay. The latter sessions took place at HMV Studios between 9 and 13 January 1968.
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