Bluegrass instruments: Banjo, Mandolin
 

No one has given any respect to the Banjo nor the mandolin, they're harder to play well than any of those main stream instruments.... Comments?

iv learnt a little mandolin and it is hard. but they are really fun to play :p

Yeah i love playing mandolin, so much fun.

I play mandolin, although I have an bit of an advantage as I play violin and guitar - mix em together and there you have it. To be honest, I don't play very often but when I do I really enjoy it.

I love banjo. My only problem is that I'm a lefty and I can usually hold my own playing right-handed instruments upside-down, but with a banjo i have to jump over the 5th string peg. Iv'e yet to play a lefty banjo.

I see your predicement,

banjos are cool, but there too hard for me. by the by, what is the peg on the side of the banjo for?

are you talking about the 5th string tuning peg? pretty obvious - tunes the 5th string.
I own a banjo and ya, not easy to play.

yah i have a banjo borrowed to me. so hard to play.

Lou Barlow said he learned how to songwrite by playing banjo, said it's much easier to play than guitar at first. Is this not true? I was gonna check it out, to help my guitar playing. :(

It much more finger picking and so it depends on what style of guitar you play. I think if you play with your fingers on guitar (like Paul Simon) than guitar is harder, but if you play electric with a pick, im sure than banjo is like hell. Some people are predetined to like certain instruments more than others, for those people, what they love is easier than what they do not. I don't feel any one instrument is harder than another.

i finger pick on my guitar alot..., but banjo is still damn hard for me...