IYO, is the piano the most difficult instrument?

[outin]

I'm not in a position to judge, rejecting the starting point, but have a listen and see for yourself:

Still too Bach for me...I think I would need to find something else to spike my interest...There are quite a few nice Cello sonatas

But something like this would be more likely to happen:
https://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/6/60/IMSLP307737-PMLP04215-Satie_Mandozzi_gymnopedies_-_Cello.pdf

[vladimir_gouldowsky]

The hardest instrument is probably the power sander - ive gotten wood chips in my eyes so many times im not allowed to legally drive my prius in my home state anymore

[awesom_o]

That's a distinction that I think everyone understands but it hasn't been asserted very much. Piano isn't difficult because it's an especially difficult instrument to play, it's difficult because composers have kept pushing pianists' abilities until it has become as difficult as they choose to make it.

Look up "jazz recorder" on YouTube. The speed of those fingers on the holes, and the finger-tonguing coordination that must be there... wow. Any instrument can be made difficult, depending on what you play on it.

I actually play a recorder quite a bit as my 3rd instrument. Sometimes classical, sometimes more bluesy.

Even though cello is my 2nd instrument, one of my favourite renditions of the 1st Bach Cello Suite was done on recorder!

[inverted]

The difficulties are equal and different. With saxophone the difficulties are in tone production, intonation, breathing, etc. With drumkit the difficulty is in absolute time, frequent independence of hands and feet, etc. With piano the difficulty is generally phrasing, different voices, self-accompaniment, and the number of notes basically.

Here in the UK the Mozart K545 Sonata first movement  is grade 6 I think, at most, whereas the melody transposed for alto saxophone would easily qualify for grade 8. I can play it on both instruments but that's after 4 months of playing piano and 7 years of playing saxophone.

[joon]

Whatever the case, I think we can all agree that the piano is the most beautiful instrument.

[outin]

Whatever the case, I think we can all agree that the piano is the most beautiful instrument.

If you mean the sound, yes, I can (depending of course on who's playing). The looks could be better though...