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The title says it all, so what kind of instrument is easy to play with?

The Kazoo has got to be the easiest instrument to play .

It depends. Different people have different instruments they learn fastest. (Guitar is often said to be fairly easy, but I NEVER managed it, though I learned to play the celtic harp fairly well within a few days. I'm also apparently lacking any talent whatsoever for the violin, but am an acceptable pianist.) If you're unsure, maybe you should go into a music store and just test different kinds of instruments. Maybe, if you're lucky, there's something that works for you from the start.

Yes the title says it all but its vague too. What kind of music are you wanting to do. I was allstate trumpet in middle school and out of 5 states in highschool out of like 200 trumpet players i was #30 best. I learned that instrument really easy I was also learning the french horn and tuba lol there for awhile. If your wanting to play in a band I would say a guitar is pretty easy but as for an orchestra or something along those lines it really depends there's basically 4 types woodwind(flutes,clarinets,Oboe's which are cool as hell IMO, and stuff like that),Brass(trumpets,trombones,stuff that you have to buzz your lips to play)Percussion(drums and bells and stuff you hit lol), then theres string (guitar,Violins and that stuff). Personally the the flute imo would be the easiest woodwind. trumpet for brass(because higher and lower pitch instruments take more practice trumpet is right in the middle same with french horn but its harder then trumpet). and guitar for strings. and drums are pretty straight forward until you get into drum set's for bands and stuff. But that would be my choices for easy instruments but that doesn't mean you will like them.

Electric bass (not double bass you almost have to be an ATHLETE to play it) is quite easy and fun to play! And usually you only have four strings which don't break as easily as guitar strings. But I still LOVE my guitar (even if slap-guitar doesn't sound as good as slap-bass)! !!

Clarinet! It's all about the CLARINET!! ! =)

Violin for me

The easiest instrument to play is the one you have a passion for. Try em all and stick with the one that moves you.

Computer.

I can't make music I want to make in real time.

Though I enjoy the bass guitar and making rhythms with anything available to me.

hey all i'm not sure about "easy" but the more i learn about music, the more i feel ANYONE can do it..
i mean this in an optimistic sense.. & this may be over-confident of me, but i believe i (not being a great guitarist) could teach damn near anyone to play.. i'm not a "teacher" in any academic sense but i feel strongly that music, or perhaps an interest in sound &rhythm, is part of human nature..
i'm a mess in many other aspects of life however but if anyone did want to try to learn, i could try to teach.. for free! as it should be.. but obviously don't just go meeting strangers, they're not all bad but they're all human.. which can be terrible, beautiful & everything else inbetween

I play guitar and bass and abit of drums and i used to play ukelele

The whistle. It's called an irish whistle, tin whistle, pennywhistle. It's inexpensive (depending upon the model you choose) and easy to learn a few slow songs on it right away. It is important to learn proper fingering, which is that you use the three middle fingers of each hand and the right hand is on the bottom. There. A lot of music can be found online, printed in a format showing the holes instead of musical notes. It has about two octaves which you get by blowing harder for the higher one. The best starter models, in that they are cheap to buy, easy to find (most music stores seem to have a couple of these around), and produce a reliable clear tone, are the Clark Meg and the Clark Sweetone. They're about the same, only the Meg is about $4. A good web site if you wish to look into it is:

www.chiffandfipple.com

There's also a lot of humor on this site. I like the instrument because of its ease in playing and taking it along with you(except on planes). A warning, though: never let a kid play one unless they sit while playing. Nasty injuries have occurred from kids falling while playing (yech).

If you choose the easy and delightful kazoo, try the Kazoobie online store. Good kazoos and good customer service.

Yeah the tin whistle is very easy, I just picked up on and learned dawning of the day by ear the other day Piano's not too hard either, just make sure to keep challenging yourself by learning songs well above your skill level

songs?? :p i have learnt a few songs & tunes.. but improvisation is great methinks..

I've never really mastered an instrument myself, but I did take a class where I learned to play the sax a bit. In the class people were playing traditional band instruments - drums, brass, and woodwinds. Drums seemed pretty simple for the most part - some beginners had a hard time learning to do drum rolls, but the rest was basically just rhythm - either you've got it or you don't. Brass players had a harder time starting out hitting the right notes- a lot more of the pitch from the horn is controlled by the player's lips, as there's only 3 (or 4) valves to help you. Sax and most of the other woodwind instruments seemed much easier to start out on - every note on these instruments has a different key combination, so hitting the notes is less about your blowing on the horn and more from the keys. Not to say its easy, especially the higher and lower notes - you have to learn and practice technique to properly to hit them without sour notes, but especially for the midrange notes these instruments seemed to be easier to start out on.

I don't play anything now, but grew up with the violin and viola + a bit piano. I was never any good lol.