Is the piano the hardest instrument to play?
No it’s one of the eaisest instruments to learn. In fact other than instruments like the harmonica or accordion, it is the eaisest I would say (guitar is not that bad either). Yet to master the Piano because the repertoire is so vast it is most certainly the hardest instrument to be called a virtuoso at. Also, it’s standard to memorize the piece your playing which is far more difficult than to have the sheet music in front of you. By the way the flute has a technique called polyphonix which allows to it play more than one note at once; having said this, I’ve met a flute virtuoso and polyphonix still was difficult for her.
The piano is dead easy if you only ever play “Chopsticks,” but if you play something like “Gaspard de la Nuit” by Ravel, you would know just how difficult piano-playing can be. With almost ANY instrument, virtuosity is the preserve of a very few people. Possibly the hardest instrument to play is the organ, which can have anything up to 4 keyboards (sometimes more), a pedalboard with 32 notes, up to 200 voices controlled by stops (American ones can have double and more that number), and all sorts of controls which make crescendoes etc. The organ is also very, very specialised, and so a full historical knowledge of the organ is an essential part of organ-playing, and that is a very big subject covering several hundred years of history. There are considerable differences in the way an organist would play “old” music and romantic music, for instance. The former would require harpsichord kyeboard technique, and the latter would call for pianistic technique. However, ALL musical instruments
Excuse me! I play the flute and piano. Not quite, every instrument is hard to play unless your a musical genius. Oboe is the hardest wind instrument. For piano you don’t blow into it, you press keys, and you do both base and treble clef. But for flute you have to be ready to press the keys that allow you to play a certain note, like a middle c is first index finger and pinky. Also for flute you have to blow correctly to get the serene sound plus you alsso have to tongue(special wind instrument word) and slur. All instruments should be the same level of hardness.
