i`m 13 and i`ve played several instruments including many percussion instruments, violin, piano, clarinet, guitar, drum set, and flute, but i think that the violin is definitely the hardest. not only do you have to play three-four note chords sometimes, its impossibly hard to play withtou squeaking. But my friend Kat plays even more instruments than I do, and she says that HIghland Bagpipes are extremely difficult. She`s been playing for five years, and she`s still practicing on the little flute reed thing that you use before you start on real bagpipes

The Oboe is the HARDEST for me. Flute and sax are really easy

My friends Lauren and Robynne play the Sax and Flute and i think their instruments are very hard to play. And Fairy princesses french horn is hard to play too.

Apperantly all you talking here have never played the Ney.
I play flute, violin, and percussion- none of these can compare to they ney for just playing. Ask anyone who has spent a lot of time and they`ll tell you percussion is by far the hardest to master. You have to have amazing speed, independence and interdependence of your limbs. The problem is most people have never heard a great drummer and thus cant understand what great drumming is

if ure talkin hard then ure talkin clarinet

if ure also talkin hard ure on about saxophone im 10 and im grade 1 merit on saxophone and its hard when u start

the guitar because you have to remember your threats

I once heard that the violin was the hardest instrument to play but the accordian is very difficult also. This could be why many of the accordian players today do not play the left hand, especially on a 120 key base. The violin is an expressive instrument and has many variables, from the bow to where to place your fingers since it has no frets. The organ with an octive or two can be very complicated. I would say that any instrument that needs three actions simutaniously is a very complicated instrument. I think all three of these instruments are equally difficult.

Okay, I have had my dose of instruments and I cannot say I have mastered any of them as well, I like to skip around and learn as much as I can. It is what I love to do. I caught on to guitar pretty quick, enough to play Yellow Submarine, oh yeah, look at me go. I played clarinet for 4 1/2 years and well, I did not exactly love it. Played bass clarinet for a year and a half...hated it. I only did it because my band director was desperate. Hit high school and switched to flute. Hardest transition. Considering you need SO much air to play it. Now I like to think myself pretty darn good at it. Not wonderful, if I put in the time, I can be pretty decent. But now, I moved on to oboe. THAT is a different story. Now getting the beautiful dark sound an oboe has, that is just difficult thing to do. I am getting there but I would have to say it is highly difficult of the woodwind instruments. Alto saxophone, I picked up extremely fast. But oboe? That is proving to be a different story I love it but I think it is the most difficult instrument. I cannot speak for brass though! I played a few notes on the tuba but cannot go any farther than you need alot of breath!

I play cello as well, prefer it sooooo much to violin. I have been playing cello for about...2 1/2 months now. I just adore it. I am catching on pretty quick, especially the bowing. I have pretty quick hands/fingers from playing all those tricky sixteenth note runs on flute so that is very beneficial. Violin, I haven`t played for about 3 weeks, so I certainly need to get back on that again! But I would say string instruments are difficult concerning intonation. Wind instruments you can tune by rolling in out, changing your emboushure, stuff like that but string instruments you do alot of listening to place your fingers and well, there is not much....freedom in the art of tuning on string instruments, so you must have a good ear for tuning!

Yes, that is my personal opinion

Go flutes, oboes, alto saxes, and celloists! hahaha

The hardest instrument to play is the thing that Tom Green plays on Freddy Got Fingered..

"..daddy would you like some sausage...daddy would you like some sausage.."

Piano. hands down. Why do you think Chopin and Rachmaninoff wrote for it almost excluslively? oh and try a Bach Fugue, handling four voices at once? keyboard instruments are hardest.

i dont know...iv played drums for the most legendary band in the world and iv played guitar since age ten

the trombune is so the hardest and is thereany boys who want to hang at my house

the violin definately

If the piano is hard, what about the organ? You are using one (or both) feet on the pedals, not just when to push them or not, but having to play notes, you may have one hand on one manual, and one on another, you have to read three lines of music AND change stops. For the sheer amount of things you have to do at the same time, this surely is the hardest. However there is only so much organ music, wheras the repertoire for piano is so enormous that there`s bound to be many more technicly challenging pieces for piano.