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I reckon violin is probably harder than cello because you've got the awful shrill noise of a violin to put up with, which I reckon is more of an ordeal than the wider left-hand stretches of the cello.
4 way co-ordination with drums is pretty hard too.
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And for brass, the French Horn uses a smaller mouthpiece relative to the notes usually achieved on it; has twice the length of tubing for its notes than other brass; and typically employs the 4th harmonic, rather than 2nd, to sound instrument middle C. So the embrochure needs to be twice as accurate, the amount of air is twice as much, etc. Also its range is greater than other brass, such that in orchestras you have "low horn" and "high horn" specialists - all horn players being expected to be good at the middle of the range. So for brass, definitely French Horn.
But then there's also a school of thought that the paino is the hardest. Whilst its physically easy to sound a note, the fact that the music uses both bass and treble clef, has a lot of polyphony, etc means the "easiness" of playing it is exploited by composers to make complicated pieces. And its often soloing etc. Combined with the fact that there's tons of people who play piano and being a successfull pianist could be perceived as hard.
Then there's instruments which are uncommon eg bagpipes, harp, bassoon, etc
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I've played trombone (and other brass instruments), the fact that is has a slide doesn't make it harder than any other brass instrument. In fact, due to the nature of the valves, its in fact easier because you can compensate for slight out-of-tuning with the slide, where a different brass instrument would have to alter the embrochue, (or a French Horn player do that and manipulate their hand in the bell).
Or do... I don't care, really.
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Trombone
Saxophone
Violin
Drums
Bass/Guitar
Piano
Singing.
Out of all those, Violin was by far and away the hardest. It's just so easy to make it sound so bad and if you don't have a good ear you are screwed. Trombone was much easier. there are more visual cues available for note positions, and the embouchure is far easier than on the saxophone.
Drums, guitar and piano are all very easy.