Our round up of the hardest instruments <\/p>
All instruments come with their own set of challenges. But some are definitely tougher than others. Here are ten instruments which, despite their many virtues, will push you further and harder than most.<\/p>\n
For all that it is one of the world\u2019s most popular instruments, the violin is one of the hardest on which to make an acceptable sound, sometimes even after years of learning it. I should know \u2013 I play it myself, and I really don\u2019t know how my parents put up with all those years of screeching. The problem is that, unlike a piano, the violin doesn\u2019t give you any help: you have to make all the notes yourself, and woe betide you if you don\u2019t have an inborn sense of relative pitch.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also the coordination issue of doing two completely different things with your right and left hand. It\u2019s an expensive instrument, unless, of course, you want a model that makes you sound screechier. Plus, it\u2019s all a bit high maintenance, having to hold up the instrument with one hand, while scrabbling away for dear life with the other.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t let that put you off. The violin, as we know, is capable of sounding heavenly. It will guarantee you a place in an orchestra (if you\u2019re half decent) and there\u2019s nothing like the feeling of mastering something difficult, or at least, making a respectable fist of it. Why else would I have kept going with it all these years?<\/p>\n