Easiest instrument to play?Hardest?

Question

Many will say clarinet,but I disagree.Clarinets squeak ALOT if you arent doing something right.Their not the safest thing either.If your playing the clarinet and someone comes by and hits your bell,I'd say it could easily knock some teeth out.Maybe not,but I know from experience,it HURTS!!!So what do you all think the easiest thing to play is?What about hardest?

Answer 1

There are no easy instruments. There are several hardest.

The piano is extremely difficult because you have to be the performer, the conductor, the soloist, and the accompanist all rolled into one. You have six hundred different lines to keep track and follow and hear and play, while still keeping the shape of the lne of the melody.

The violin is difficult for many reasons.

The amount of air support required for the oboe makes it exceedingly difficult, and getting a good tone.

Yet the french horn is difficult because they have to use their ears alot more than the rest of us. They can't just press one sequence of keys and except to be somewere in the vacinity of the pitch they are trying to play.

Answer 2

Any instrument is easy to play at its core. What is difficult is playing the instrument WELL.

I also disagree with the people that think that clarinet is the easiest. They often have to play very technical passages, and the embouchure and air support needed are no joke. Tuning is difficult, especially with high notes (the D above the treble staff and higher). Also, compared to brass instruments, clarinets (all reed instruments do, actually) have to deal with reeds. We cannot jam our mouthpiece on and go, we need to find a reed with a good sound. And every reed player has had to deal with the careless band-mate brushing against their reed (and it's always your best one!) and breaking it. I've never heard of having teeth knocked out from a clarinet mouthpiece, that would be really difficult, considering mouthpieces aren't overly hard. If anything, you'll chip your mouthpiece, which could be detrimental to your sound.

Among the reed instruments I would have to say the easiest instrument is the saxophone, for a few reasons. One, closed keys. As a clarinet player, I can really appreciate the fact that saxophone players can barely hit a key and have the note play. Embouchure is next. I've tried out a sax, and it is very easy to get a sound out. You just blow. The neck strap is also a nice feature, as well as the fact that they are naturally loud instruments. One of my saxophone-playing friends was trying to learn the clarinet, and they were shocked at how much more difficult it was than they originally thought.

The hardest woodwind would have to be a double-reed, I'd have to say oboe. You need a ton of air, its impossible to tune, and you're normally by yourself over the entire band.

With brass I'd say the easiest instrument is the trumpet (or cornet, whichever you prefer). The hardest is the french horn.

Percussion deserves its own category, I think. To be a well-rounded percussionist you have to know drums (like snare), mallets (marimba, vibes), and timpani. And then there are all the extras that come with their own technique: cymbals, chimes, triangle, gong... a percussionist may only play one hit on the gong in an entire piece, but its guaranteed that that hit is really important. It is not an easy task to sit and count through 60+ measures of rest, and the percussionists must be steady with the tempo. If they don't watch the director like crazy the entire ensemble will be off.

Answer 3

The hardest of course is the B flat trumpet because you only have 3 valves if you got the fingering right you can still miss the note by going sharp or flat and over shooting by a few steps the easiiest is accualy either the clainet of the Alto saxapohnoe because they are fixed fingerings and if you get hit in the bell you wont loose teeth but with a trumpet you will.

Answer 4

SAXAPHONE!!!
easiest embouchure
same note fingerings throughout the octaves
easiest to get sound
there is a reason people say you can go from clarinet to sax but not the other way around
clarinet has different fingerings every octave, but the second ocatve fingerings are the same as the entire sax fingerings.

Answer 5

All instruments have various obstacles they must overcome. There is no single instrument that is inherently more difficult to play. What is difficult for a flute player may not be for a trumpet player, similarly, what is difficult for the percussion may not be for the piano and vice-versa. I know this is not the answer you were looking for, but it is the simple truth.

Answer 6

i have to agree with peacedevi, but i also want to add percussion in general. you have to have really good counting skills (subdividing), and really good hand eye coordination. not to mention that there are so many percussive instruments (including the main three, snare, keyboard, and timpani) that now you have to alteast be proficient in the three main ones (listed earlier) but also be able to play the accesory instruments

Answer 7

Guitar is the easiest, hardest, French Horn