Many things to consider:
1. difficulty in learning to master
2. price to purchase or rent
3. portability
4. richness of tone and harmony
5. ability to play chords
6. lending itself to use your voice to sing while playing
7. whether it requires electricity or batteries to play
8. the ability to easily look at the instrument while playing to quickly find the correct notes with your eyes
9. how much natural rhythm you possess
10. relative ease and cost of tuning and maintenance
11. how well it fits your body: ergonomics
12. your level of dexterity in your hands and/or feet
13. scope or repertoire of the instrument
14. how physically and mentally demanding they are to play
15. your health and level of fitness and endurance: brasswinds aren't for asthma patients
16. do you appreciate the sound of this instrument? (often tubas, bagpipes, harpsichords, accordions and pipe organs are annoying to some people: a violin in the hands of a greenhorn is an infernal thing: better have mutes for a trumpet if you live in an apartment)
17. is my favorite music within the repertoire of the instrument?
Brasswinds, woodwinds and strings are very tough to learn how to produce the correct notes and pitches. Keyboards can easily produce the correct notes but most are not very portable. Though highly portable, you cannot easily look at the keys and buttons while playing an accordion and they are physically demanding to pump the bellow. Compared with a keyboard like a piano's, it is tough to learn how find the correct desired notes and chords fast on a fretted stringed instrument like a guitar or banjo and these instruments are tough on the fingers. A keyboard rises and descends in pitch logically and in a linear chromatic fashion. Guitar frets, trumpet valves, bagpipe chanter holes, button accordions and cello fingerboards have complicated fingering patterns: they're not linear and intuitive to play the correct notes as is on a straight diatonic keyboard. Harmonicas are limited in repertoire and the reeds can get sticky and rusty. Drums alone are capable of no harmony or melody.
A Casio keyboard is the best compromise for me in a small, portable, cheap instrument with a fairly broad repertoire. It still has that major drawback of requiring electric current to play.
A French horn is about the toughest thing to extract any kind of musical sound from. Here is all the effort it takes to learn just 5 notes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWeKV6bMCU&t=64s
1. difficulty in learning to master
2. price to purchase or rent
3. portability
4. richness of tone and harmony
5. ability to play chords
6. lending itself to use your voice to sing while playing
7. whether it requires electricity or batteries to play
8. the ability to easily look at the instrument while playing to quickly find the correct notes with your eyes
9. how much natural rhythm you possess
10. relative ease and cost of tuning and maintenance
11. how well it fits your body: ergonomics
12. your level of dexterity in your hands and/or feet
13. scope or repertoire of the instrument
14. how physically and mentally demanding they are to play
15. your health and level of fitness and endurance: brasswinds aren't for asthma patients
16. do you appreciate the sound of this instrument? (often tubas, bagpipes, harpsichords, accordions and pipe organs are annoying to some people: a violin in the hands of a greenhorn is an infernal thing: better have mutes for a trumpet if you live in an apartment)
17. is my favorite music within the repertoire of the instrument?
Brasswinds, woodwinds and strings are very tough to learn how to produce the correct notes and pitches. Keyboards can easily produce the correct notes but most are not very portable. Though highly portable, you cannot easily look at the keys and buttons while playing an accordion and they are physically demanding to pump the bellow. Compared with a keyboard like a piano's, it is tough to learn how find the correct desired notes and chords fast on a fretted stringed instrument like a guitar or banjo and these instruments are tough on the fingers. A keyboard rises and descends in pitch logically and in a linear chromatic fashion. Guitar frets, trumpet valves, bagpipe chanter holes, button accordions and cello fingerboards have complicated fingering patterns: they're not linear and intuitive to play the correct notes as is on a straight diatonic keyboard. Harmonicas are limited in repertoire and the reeds can get sticky and rusty. Drums alone are capable of no harmony or melody.
A Casio keyboard is the best compromise for me in a small, portable, cheap instrument with a fairly broad repertoire. It still has that major drawback of requiring electric current to play.
A French horn is about the toughest thing to extract any kind of musical sound from. Here is all the effort it takes to learn just 5 notes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWeKV6bMCU&t=64s
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