Should you play the clarinet or saxophone?

Well sense you already know how to play Clarinet, i would recommend guitar because it is a little more advanced. Piano is because alot of people have them and you can play them at parties and it is a beginner instrument. Also, almost anyhing can be translated onto the piano. Guitars are really fun though because you can learn a lot of cool stuff on them and you can take them with you almost everywhere. Also...(chicks AND dudes dig people that play guitar way more than people that play pianos. Also, guitars are cheaper. I have played guitar for about a year now and I am on an intermediate level. It has been a lot of fun and Hope you have some fun either way you go. The above person doesn't know what he's talking about. Piano is the root of Western music. It is not a "beginner instrument". In fact, it is much easier to transition from piano to guitar, because in piano playing, you have to learn to read music. And piano playing requires that you perform both chord and melody work at the same time, with the two hands doing something different, and implementation of the feet as well. Piano also makes a much wider spectrum of sounds; it can hold down the bass notes while also playing high melodies. It is, in fact, a more complicated instrument than guitar, because of the co-ordination involved. Now, there are other considerations. In guitar playing, both hands combine to do one thing. In guitar, you are either playing chords or single lines at the same time, with limited range -- for example, you can't do an F# on the 6th string and a C on the 22nd fret on the 1st string at the same time; your hand simply won't reach the notes. And because of the more limited range of the guitar, it is not as full-sounding an instrument -- a guitar could never give as deep a bottom end as a piano, for example. However, being a string instrument, a guitar can hit the microtones that fall in between the 12 tones of Western music, with techniques like sliding, bending, tremolo picking and vibrato which do not exist on the piano, and even more so with Electric Guitar. So I would argue that guitar is a more emotive instrument, while piano has to rely more on the compositional aspect of music (ie. which notes to hit) to convey emotion, because the only choices you have in piano are which notes to hit, how fast to play, and how hard you hit the key. A guitar has a much wider range of "noises" like harmonics, scrapes, feedback, and choices of tools (eg. a metal pick, a glass slide on the left hand, fingerpicks) to vary its nuances. In summary, the advantages of guitar are: - Expressive, emotive -- the strings are closer to your fingers, and you can personalize the nuances of the playing - Portable -- you can take a guitar hiking, can't take a piano - Even higher-end guitars are much less expensive than an actual piano - Easy to do maintenance; most guitar players do some form of maintenance on their own instrument - Easier to play - Rock and roll is a guitar-based music form; you would never sound completely "rock" playing a piano or even a keyboard The advantages of piano are: - Great basis for learning any other instrument, including guitar - Easy transition to keyboard playing, and therefore access to the full range of instrumentation on electronic keyboards, such as string sections, brass sections, synth, bass, basically any instrument in the world - Piano compositions tend to be more sophisticated than guitar, because you can play 10 different notes at a time, with an almost unlimited range of note choices, no matter how far apart in pitch - Fuller sound and louder volume when playing live