Re: Is the mandolin easier to play?
Originally Posted by
catmandu2
For example: Piano is generally considered a difficult instrument. Why?—because of its tremendous polyphony
Erhu (and violin) is also considered quite difficult—but for completely different reasons than piano
These represent two types of difficulty for me (since I tried both piano and violin as a kid):
- coordination my brain is simply not good at; I could never get my head around doing two independent things at the same time with both hands, or any two or more body parts, for that matter. A drumkit would fall in the same category, I guess, and so would most Asian martial arts.
- a long phase of terror and pain for both me, family and neighbors until what I did began to sound like music rather than fingernails on chalkboard. Other instruments for this category would be uilleann pipes and in fact most brass and woodwind.
I would call an instrument easy to learn if mastership is an optional add-on after the fun, not the other way round.
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