What do YOU think is the hardest instrument to play?

[El Dango]

I haven't played many instruments, but Hunch seems to have a point.

[Rulez]

Well, I only play the guitar (for 4 and half a year) and the piano (for half a year only I suck) but I'm gonna take a guess that the hardest instrument are the drums. At least I think so

[Diplodocus]

I can play a little bit of the flute and the piano, but that's all!

[Tobbe]

Diplodocus, Diplodocus is just your mafia-game alias, please don't use this account outside of the Mafia topic. Thank you.

[Adsolution]

WHy does everyone keep saying organ? It's very similar to piano. Having multiple rows doesn't mean it's more complicated. Instead of moving your hands across a big wide thing, you move your hands more in a less wide thing with two rows. Three rowed organs aren't very common but they're not a lot different.

[Tobbe]

Yeah, that's exactly what I said:

Both guitar and bass are harder instruments than an organ, take it from me who's played all three. Playing an organ isn't much different from playing a piano. You just play what you would normally play with your left hand on the bottom set of keys, and what you would play with your right on the upper set (regular organs only have two sets of keys). The hand-foot coordination thing is actually not that hard. With some practice it comes pretty naturally.

[Matyuv]

I can play some organ

Deep Purple?

[Xenon]

WHy does everyone keep saying organ? It's very similar to piano. Having multiple rows doesn't mean it's more complicated. Instead of moving your hands across a big wide thing, you move your hands more in a less wide thing with two rows. Three rowed organs aren't very common but they're not a lot different.

But having to play two pianos, effectively, one of which with your feet, is on the other hand very complicated. My dad plays the organ and the piano and my sister plays the piano, so I'm aware there is a substancial difference between the two.

[Limely]

Don't have much experience with tangent instruments, but the most difficult brass instrument is definitively the french horn, because you really need to listen and intone properly in a much bigger scale than with other brass instruments, because many notes that are very close requires the same valves closing. And to top it all, the double french horn has two sets of scales (difficult to explain, but there's the Bb-horn-setting and the F-horn-setting and you push on a valve or something to change between the two) and you need to keep in mind what scale the notes you are playing sound best in or such. Confusing. I don't get it, I've only played the single horn.

With brass instruments you are depending entirely on your own air flow and embouchure because you only have 3-4 valves to redirect the air with. This is something you don't have trouble with as much with woodwind instruments like the flute, the sax and the clarinet as much because they have more valves (or whatever it's called on those) to control the pitch, though air apparently means a lot there too.

And when you are tired or you haven't warmed up, your instrument will sound bad. Pianos are nice that way because no matter how exhausted you are or how long it has been since you played last, the note will be the same anyway. And you also need to intonate a wind instrument while you are playing, while you can't really do much about the pitch while playing the piano. Tuning a piano is an adventure in itself though apparently. Go figure, with all those strings.

The nice thing about brass instruments is that they can only play one note at a time, so you don't have to worry about playing two-three melodies at once like with a piano, haha.

But in short all instruments are hard to learn if you want to be good, I think.

Oh god textwall, sorry. Old habits are hard to break. :<

[The Jonster]

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