It is commonly said that strings find passages with flats in the key signature harder to play than sharps, however I find that flats are easier (More than likely because I am awkward and always seem to find easy things difficult and hard things pretty much ok )

Which do you prefer to play in?

P.s. Ignore the which of there LOL it should be which of these

On the violin - definitely sharps...

on viola... hmmm it depends

on cello - ask me when I've played pieces with a few more sharps or flats in lol

Sharps...

On the violin and viola - sharps.

On violin I prefer sharps. On Flute and Recorders I prefer flats.

On piano I get scared by either!!

sharp scales on violin and viola.
Flat scales piano, accordion and organ

For me, on violin and viola, it depends on the number of sharps or flats in the key signature.

Up to four sharps or flats - sharps
Four or more sharps or flats - flats

On flute sharps. I hate flats!
On violin neither - i forget they're there!

Why can't everything be in C!?

Don't know. Maybe it's becuase some mad person invented scales and/or key signatures.

I'm always more comfortable with flats somehow (pianist). I find them easier to read and they feel more mellow than those nasty little sharps!

I must be weird - I prefer flats

Or should that be;

I prefer flats ergo I must be weird????

Until a few months ago my daughter had played only sharps on the cello and only flats on the trombone. She had therefore quite logically concluded that stringed instruments had sharps and instruments you blow into had flats. She was most perturbed when her cello teacher produced a piece of music which had a Bflat in it and her whole theory collapsed.

I prefer flats myself. Nicer sound, somehow!

Sharps for the major
Flats for the minor

(just to be awkward)

I hate having 4 of them, would rather have a shedful than 4. That D catches me out everytime.

Flats!!

I agree, sharps somehow seem more work to me.

I prefer sharps, flats are rather depressing!