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What is the hardest instrument to play WELL

TameasDust	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 6:27 AM I vote for drums ... playing them well is an art
trancesepted	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 7:38 AM i second that. a dnb artist that can play drums? YIKES.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 9:59 AM They are all tough, French Horn is a particularly tough instrument because of the tubular length and the mouth piece design.
Alecs	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:03 AM Don't forget double reed instruments, oboe especially. those things are SO hard to keep in tune.
imemine	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:10 AM Oh yes, don’t forget the faggot in the double reed class too!
GeneHilbert	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:16 AM Oh no - he played clarinet..... I had the hots for our bassoonist - she could have petered my wolf any day.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:18 AM Maybe that should read wolf my peter......
victorsskull	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:59 AM violin
zedsalt	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 12:11 PM Theremin can't be easy, but I'm going to guess duduk...two huge reeds, plenty of virtuoso recordings out there to be compared to... The toughest thing in my arsenal is the arghul. I thought that I must be playing it wrong when I first purchased it, because I had to practically deep-throat the thing in order to get a sound out of it. Turns out, that's just how it's played.
wailingmiserere	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 1:20 PM I would say violin/viola/cello, anything in that family. The technique that goes into playing those kinds of instruments is tremendously deep. I have heard clarinet is hard too, but never tried it...
wailingmiserere	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 1:20 PM Oh, bagpipes too, of course. Now, those I have tried, and the noise was hideous
victorsskull	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 1:21 PM and I hate the banjo or at least the one I had
tooles	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 1:26 PM It's hard to get a smooth, consistent tone out of the kazoo.
twodimensional	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 1:28 PM teleharmonium.
Fraser	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 2:23 PM Id take a wild guess at the bag pipes.
tooles	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 2:39 PM I bet the hurdy gurdy is actually pretty hard to master.
MinisterofSc...	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 2:45 PM I broke all of my fingers playing one of those! Ever heard of a bean? Those are tough Mothers to play! You can play them...but the holes don't seem to make a difference in their sound. There aren't even any books or sites on how to play one!
FebruaryBattles	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 2:46 PM the triangle is cleary the hardest instrument to use... thee who masters the technique of triangle should be shunned upon because they must have made a deal with the devil to get that technique down!
AbortiveMind	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 4:21 PM To contradict wailingmiserere : The clarinet isn't that hard to play, and it's pretty similar to a saxophone (which I play) and believe me, after some time, you play with it
Intergalacti...	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 4:46 PM the kazzoo. seriously underrated instrument....
TameasDust	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 9:37 PM how about the juice harp?
JohnAnderson	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 1:54 AM autoharp I suppose
TDUBB	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 1:56 AM dont laugh at me i used to play the flute when i was in junior high and i did it for 2 years. that shit is very hard to play.
hantu	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 1:57 AM why did ya stop?? o wait! yeh i see
shadowself	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 2:22 AM I played flute for a year in high school too. I took an extra music course (that I would not get a credit for) just to learn it. Fantastic instrument, but HARD to play.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 2:33 AM I never found flute that hard really - however it does require a lot of scale studies in order to play all the runs associated with the instrument. Tuba is tough and though it is fingered like a baritone horn - it much harder to play correctly because of the mouth piece size, and read all those damn ledger lines.
MitchWillis	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 8:45 AM didgeridoos...i'm just no good with the blowinstruments.
EvilPicnic	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 10:21 AM ^^The circular breathing must be pretty hard to master, too.
FebruaryBattles	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 10:24 AM oo shit recorders are gay!!!!!!!!! i cant play a recorder.. mine was always dirty and i never cleaned it.. my music teacher called it the devils instrument
zedsalt	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 11:54 AM Mitch, y'know what helped me with the didg? Moving it over so that it wasn't centered on my lips. Slide the mouthpiece over until your philtrum is just inside the lip of the didg; you'll get a MUCH better tone. I learned this watching The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
poetix	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 12:16 PM i've heard that the one of the hardest to master is the flute, that whole sideways thing, but personally im not a big fan of any woodwind or brass instruments. can never get a consistent flow between notes.
poetix	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 12:16 PM i've heard that the one of the hardest to master is the flute, that whole sideways thing, but personally im not a big fan of any woodwind or brass instruments. can never get a consistent flow between notes.
sinai	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 2:06 PM bagpipes
Bhairava	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 10:44 PM If you haven't got a good voice anyway. Then it'll take for ever to sound good. But not hard as such. I think anything at a pro level is hard.
imemine	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 10:52 PM Errrrr---see---and the voice thing---Some would say that Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Petty ----this list could go on forever---don’t have good voices. In fact the likes of Simon Cowell would never let these above mentioned singers into our lives regardless of the tremendous impact each of them have had on music history. See, when we blindly allow others tell us what we like we pave a path for normalcy that is a very dangerous path to follow! Sure the voice is an instrument, but unlike other instruments it’s a whole lot more subjective!
leflaw	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 11:03 PM Simon Cowell's skin flute.
Alstroph	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 11:31 PM I'd say the Sitar and Tabla are probably among the hardest... seeing as they take a lifetime to master.
Saint	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 11:33 PM Violin and classical guitar played in a classical mannor.
leedsquietman	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 11:53 PM the digeridoo - to make it sound anything like a sequence of notes !
victorsskull	Date: April 29, 2006 @ 11:55 PM just singing is hard for me
Ataxia2	Date: April 30, 2006 @ 12:43 AM I once talked to someone who played the bag pipes... The fingering isnt the hard part. Its keeping the bags filled with air. Maybe its one of those guitar like things that chinese people play on their laps. Have you ever tried playing a guitar like that?
leflaw	Date: April 30, 2006 @ 8:26 AM Riush Limbaugh is good at bagpipes.
Exdavid	Date: April 30, 2006 @ 3:42 PM Lutes I heard are some of the hardest string instruments to play. I believe because of the hell they do on peoples fingers but I'm not sure. I haven't actually played one.
LikquaB	Date: May 1, 2006 @ 11:49 AM a harp looks rather difficult to play...
shadowself	Date: May 1, 2006 @ 11:57 AM I wanna hear Rush Limbaugh play bagpipes when he is all hopped up on illegally-obtained painkillers. Then I wanna hear him top it all off with one of his anti-drug rants. In E minor.
Israfel	Date: May 1, 2006 @ 1:51 PM with a salsa beat
orgasmotron	Date: May 1, 2006 @ 4:32 PM the saw? like those warbly noises.. whats with that? and when you fill glasses with different amounts of water and put them on a rotating platter and play songs like in that tanqueray commercial. that must be hard.
orgasmotron	Date: May 1, 2006 @ 4:32 PM please note "the saw?" should be a statement, not a question. as in: it is hard to play the saw.
EchoMinor	Date: May 2, 2006 @ 4:17 PM i hear the theramin is hard
bluecoffee	Date: May 11, 2006 @ 7:55 AM Drums.. definitely.. Listening to my boyfriends drums in his music makes me want to rip my ear drum out and smash it with a sledgehammer... In fact, that is what his music does to my ears.
jess1561	Date: May 11, 2006 @ 9:44 AM Any instrument can be hard to play-well.