h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

what is the most difficult instrument to pick up and play??

for the obvious
no!!!

One like the bugle - lacking in keys and gadgets that make for easy use. It's a lot less complicated, yes - but so much harder to learn to play it properly than, say, a guitar.

i like your thinking, but i am afraid.......no, not this time

Piano accordian

that was designed to be picked up and played......there was a for piano, but not piano accorian.

Bagpipes then

people pick those up and play them all the time

Those huge long horns played in the Alps when the yodellers are on strike......

one end is on the floor, but you pick up the other end and blow

You hum it son, and I'll play it ....


Pipe Organ?

Didgeridoo?

I think to play the Didgeridoo there's this complicated (nigh impossible) breathing technique that requires blowing out through the mouth while inhaling through the nose.

I seem to recall Harris once explaining the mastery it took. Rolf

An aeolian harp or a similar sound sculpture, since that's played by the wind, not people?

A scientific instrument eg microscope. Although that would be nigh on impossible to play.

Pipe Organ.......-5

The Gaffophone? http://www.iict.ch/Tcom/HomePages/MJN/Projets/gaffophone.jpg It only exists in a comic...

(Although this would seem to imply that it exists, but is quite difficult to play http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2863-j )

as the gaffophone is a comic instrument, it can be drawn any size and so does not present a problem with being picked up



and played

So it's just a matter of size?

I still don't see how you can play an instrument drawn on paper. Unless you fold the paper around a comb, or something.