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

[DavidMusic]

QUOTE (Fayzan @ Nov 2 2004, 07:16 PM)

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

ENOUGH!

[Helen]

QUOTE (fluty tute @ Oct 28 2004, 10:56 AM)

Flute aint hard once u get ur mouth rite it comes easily

Although, it does take a while to alter your enbrouchure to get a nice tone.

[hornplayer]

i'd say out of keyboard based instruments organ is the most challenging - due to stop changes, co ordination of feet, and the fact that due to the huge dynamic range of the organ, if you play a wrong note its really loud and echoes if you're in a church for at least a second or two!

horn out of the brass, because to play a note of the same difficulty on a horn compared to trumpet, its about 3 or 4 notches up on the harmonic series; so there are more notes on the same valve combo in a closer area than on trumpet or trombone.

wind is prob oboe, but i dont play any woodwind instruments.
same goes for strings

[liebe_klavier]

as i've said before....nothing is easy...the easiest thing has always appeared to be the most difficult ones

[Inchworm]

hi everyone, this is my first post on here....I hope that I won't do something wrong or screw something up. I vote that oboe is the hardest instrument. I just started on that instrument so of course thats how I feel on it. I play many instruments and I think brass is harder also but my vote goes to oboe all the way. :)

[Ely]

Hmmm, as everyone made a good point about the piano (wich I chose, beacuse I`ve been playling it so long). I have to wonder, what about the cello!! Playing it round about 4 years now, I would say, in some areas its just more difficult to play oppose to the violin! On the violin, the notes are close to eachother (wich in some cases its a bid hard) but if you want to play on the cello - You have to jump up and down on the fingerboard like a clown and you have about a meters length to do it all in, have you ever played with your thumb??? Let me tell you, its hard!... AND KEEPING PITCH WHILE YOUR AT IT! I must say, hats of to anyone (me included (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ) who plays the piano - technically demanding in everyway- and the strings - musicly (pitch wise) and physicly demanding!

A humble pianist, and cellist (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif)

[Andy W]

I'd voted organ as I cannot coordiante all my limbs very well but it probably is easier if you learn properly in a structured way.
As a few people have said french horn is meant to be pretty difficult because of the pitching
I think part of it is how good you have to be to get a good sound like violin and oboe you have to play for a few years before it sounds any good (with a few exceptions i'm sure lol) but sax or piano sounds pretty good within a few weeks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[_rai_]

Double bass. It really takes a persistent person with talent to master it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Alicia Ocean]

oboe/bassoon/double reed anything

[itchy1]

gotta be oboe
*has just returned from a week away and discovered that she has forgotten everything she could play a week ago...lesson on Tuesday* (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

Otherwise organ, more than one keyboard and feet as well, that's scary.

[Rosemary7391]

This pops up every so often.. I'm going to say what I said last time (I think!)

The hardest instrument to play is the one you can't play yet.


Also, an instrument that is technically easier to play (ie Piano) will have much harder music to play on it, than say, a violin, which is much harder to get in tune etc. So it all balances out in the end anyway.

[lizbiz23]

I would have said Trombone if it was on...it just seems hard because you have 2 know exactly where the positions are and i dunnoo, it's just wierd for me. Well it's easy for trombonists obviously....(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[A Little Happy]

I guess I'm not the best judge since I haven't played most of these instruments, but of the two I have played (piano and violin) I personally find violin more difficult. The piano music I play is more challenging but with violin intonation is so much more challenging - good pitch is much more essential in violin than in piano, IMO. Piano you don't need to worry about that at all, as long as your piano's in tune. I also find playing violin at high positions challenging. Plus I think the difference is more dramatic between a beginning violin student and a professional violinist than between a beginning piano student and a professional pianist - not to say that the difference between the latter is minor, but in relation to the former it is smaller. If you've ever heard a violin student in the first few months...

[Aileen]

I voted paino but the difficulty of instruments depend on the person who is trying to play it, i think. Some people are naturally better at some more 'difficult' instruments and other people find them awful to learn. It's a personal thing.

[stevensfo]

The most difficult instruments I ever learned were the piano and classical guitar. The way the two staves are arranged is totally ridiculous. Can you imagine an alien arriving and asking why both staves look identical, but the notes are different? He'd think we were joking! Then you have to read both at the same time and co-ordinate your hands correctly.

Guitar was my first instrument and it wasn't for years till I realised how difficult it was.

Third most difficult, I'd have to say trumpet. Haven't played it for a long time. Not difficult to get an octave, but then on....!!!

I think that the oboe is a good example of something that is deemed 'difficult' because 'everyone says so', a bit like 'the british always carry brollies'...etc. What's difficult is getting a reed that is suitable. Once you have a good reed, it really isn't any more difficult than any other instrument.

Easiest so far are the clarinet and sax.

Steve

PS My comments are only about initially learning the instruments - up to approx grade 5. I realise that to master any of them is a whole different story!