The Most Difficult Instrument, Um...among the most common instruments.. Options

[Rupayan]

Sorry if I've missed out on any instrument but I'm allowed only 10.
If you feel that some instrument outside this list is toughest to play then please post.

And please vote for the instrument which you have some experience in playing. Those who know more than 1 instruments are best suited for this poll.


Personally, I feel the Piano is the toughest instrument to play. It takes years and years of sincere dedication to be able to truly master the piano. I haven't. But I sure am trying....

[fluty tute]

Flute aint hard

once u get ur mouth rite it comes easily

[oboist]

French Horn and the Oboe are often said to be two of the hardest instruments but, in the case of the latter, I'm biased!

[Katet]

I voted violin, but i think that harp and organ are hard to. You havent put French Horn on there, or oboe which are considered to be the most difficult instruments.

[manpreetpangli]

hi,

I think that the piano is the most easiest instrument to learn. Playing any note on the piano produces a fixed sound. The sound gradually fades away, but soes not go up or down. It has a fixed notes, unlike the string instruments, because you have to find the note!!! Eg the violin, to play a C the violinist needs to move his finger until he does find the C, and when he does the note may be to sharp, or flat!!!!!

Manpreet :rolleyes:

[i like piano]

yes, i agree that violin is hard and i've voted for violin too. although my first instrument is piano.however, piano isn't that easy as u've thought.although piano have a fixed sound, but it requir lots of technical excercise.such as ornaments, the expressions.even the speed.if u've played a full version sonata or prellude, u'll find that piano isn't that easy.

i was really frustrated by appasionata-beethoven

just can't catch up the speed

[AnotherPianist]

This question is impossible to answer because each instrument has it's own difficulties: the violin requires a good ear (and years of practice) to get the notes right; the piano requires a great deal of co-ordination and the reading of many different notes at the same time as well as dynamic control; the organ does not require the dynamic control but adds feet to the co-ordination problem, not to mention lots of stops; woodwind and brass instruments require a lot of breath control and are often difficult to get a sound out of, never mind a note!

I think the best comment I've read on this issue was:

"The piano is a very easy instrument but you are expected to play very hard things on it"

(My apologies to the original poster but I cannot remember who it was, do tell me who it is if you read this as I thought it was a really good point.)

It's not hard to play a note on the piano so the pieces are more complicated; on the violin it's harder to play the instrument (get the right notes out of it) but the pieces are easier, mostly single melodies. By no means, however, are the violin pieces easier to play than the piano ones or the piano ones easier to play than the violin ones. There's only so much one can learn in a lifetime and ultimately for each instrument the difficulty of playing the pieces regarded as the hardest in the repertoire will be roughly equal since the best people have each taken a lifetime to learn so if the instrument requires that they spend more time working on technical aspects they won't have been able to progress through piece difficulty as quickly and hence the hardest pieces (which generally aren't written to be any harder than the best players can play) will be easier pieces but not easier to play because of the instrument being fundamentally harder to play.

Anyway I voted piano because that's what I play ;)! Philosophically, however, I think they're all the same: when things are subjective nothing is easy as nothing is ever perfect!

[Rupayan]

I've voted for piano.

The violin is hard no doubt but I've always felt that to extract a sweet melody from a violin is comparitively easier than to extract the same from a piano. Further, factors that make an excellant performance like 'touch', technical mastery, subtlety of dynamics and articulation etc. is very difficult to achieve on the piano and requires hours and years of practice.

[david_t]

I play both violin and piano, I say on violin the difficulty is not finding the notes, but the bowing. Piano you don't look at the keyboard when you play.

[Helen]

I'd say violin! I find it a lot harder to play than flute or violin...

[AnotherPianist]

QUOTE (david_t @ Oct 30 2004, 08:25 PM)

I play both violin and piano,  I say on violin the difficulty is not finding the notes,  but the bowing.  Piano you don't look at the keyboard when you play.

That it may be (I'm not an expert at playing the violin) but I'm talking about unmatched difficulties. On piano there is no equivalent difficulty to intonation on the violin if you press the right note you get the right pitch (assuming the piano is in tune!). However, I presume the main concerns that a violinist must take care with when bowing are production of a nice tone and articulation; both of which are concerns that a pianist must also consider and achieve with his/her hands.

[Fayzan]

guyz can any1 tell me da scales & chords of addat on piano(keyboard) plsz..i badly needd em

[Rupayan]

Piano: 10 fingers, 1 foot !!!
Violin: 4 fingers, 1 arm. <_<

Piano, piano, piano. :D

[cellogirlie]

i voted saxophone. because i cant for the life of me get a note without a squeak. though im sure when i can it wont be so bad!
well i (properly) play cello and piano, i would definitely say piano. simply because its not easy to 'experiment' and make totally new sounds. like...on the cello whatever sound you wanna make you can make it, however you want. on piano, to a degree, its always going to sound the same.
and im just awful on the piano, so i find it hard.

This post has been edited by CMORRIS: Nov 4 2004, 03:03 PM

[josephlau]

I don't think there are some instruments which are potentially harder than other,
since every instrument has specific difficulities to play (otherwise, every people can play it!) and have relative strong and weak pionts to play certain kind of music. e.g, it is diff. to play chord on violin than piano.

Moereover, some people may have some advanage particular instruments.
Futhermore, great composer usually drive the instrument to its up most limit, so even piano is easy to play chord, it doesn't give you any advantages to play Beethovan sonata easier.

One may claim that piano is easy to play since it can be sound by a few years old kids, but it doesn't let you become a musician for only striking notes by a 3 years old kids.

Porbaly, anyone who play music of Bach in their instrument will find it difficult to play well

So, there are no point to say one instrument is harder than other.

Hope it didn't discourage to you guy, It is my point of view only.

Joseph, guitarist