What Is The Easiest Instrument To Learn?

Reggie McKay

The ukulele may be the one of the easiest instruments to play, as this picture may reveal. You don't have to manage six strings as guitarists do, on the standard ukulele, and its size suits small hands.

But, as Michelle Griffin, Mitchell Conservatorium teacher, will tell you, it takes skill and practice to play any musical instrument well.

Jay Laga'aia's My Ukulele reminds us of the instrument's Hawaiian roots.



And Jake Shimabukuro's amazing rendition of George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps, shows what the humble ukulele can sound like, in the hands of a virtuoso.