[jurryduty]

In your opinion what is the easiest instrument for a person to learn and be able to decently play a few pieces?
I have heard that guitar is one of the best for at least self teaching but I always thought it was piano. Is piano just deceptively hard?

[Bottleness478]

easiest to play is recorder, but it's not an instrument easy to play alone

[Dmtry1]

The triangle.

[apan321]

I think piano is pretty easy to get started with, but hard to master

[mango2020]

I would agree with the above comment. Piano isn't necessarily difficult as there are plenty of free resources online. You can definitely learn to play a range of songs from YouTube alone. Also with a bit of practice, you can learn to play melodies on a piano by ear which I assume is more difficult on a guitar.

There's also plenty of sources online for musical theory. Surprisingly there are only 4 main chords in most popular songs which can definitely help to play songs not just on piano but guitar as well

[RobertCanber]

Get a Ukulele! Dirt cheap, super easy to play a few pop tunes and would be a good stepping stone to the guitar.

[kevin phan]

playing keyboard games

[American Ram]

Ukelele sounds good not hard to play

[thisoneiguess]

Ukeleles are cheap and fun, but I personally have gotten more out of learning the piano

[Yeet Yeet 32]

I believe any instrument is easy to learn it’s mastering it that’s the hard part.

[123abbietmp]

i'd say it's a tie between guitar and piano

[TheGiver86]

Piano and guitar are quite similar, but I'd say piano is easier to learn. On a guitar you can bend notes, but on a piano you can't do that. ;-)