Quote Originally Posted by ArcticSonata
Been playing most of my life. I think the mistake most people in playing paino is that it is easy after anyone can sit downand hit a few note and even play out a familiar easy song ( something likehappy birthday). The real challenge is the where instrument like Guitar seem to get easier as you play, the paino grows from being to harder. Personally I think that play paino ( its even hader when playing a synth or an organ) is the most challenge instrument out there. Unlike other other instrument you can be chanlenged to to keep the melody and the rythm at the same time,ect.
I've been talking about this to a guitarist friend of mine, and we both say the other instrument seems harder. After a bit of debate, this is what we agreed on:

As far as actually playing notes, guitar is harder since you need to do two things to get the note: Line finger up correctly and pluck the right string. With piano it's just hit the right key.

However, when it comes to getting complicated melodies and the like, piano et al. is more difficult since you need to keep both hands in rhythm, play more notes, etc.