The top 16 What musical instrument should you play? results of 4539 participants. Percentages indicate the frequency of the self-selected participants' top results for What musical instrument should you play?.       Rate Survey Says (5=best, 0=poor)
#1	17.4%	Piano. Part of the percussion AND strings!
#2	14.3%	Guitar. You can only pull this one off if you wear a bandana on your head or sing while you play.
#3	12.5%	Percussion. All you do is hit things and make noise.
#4	9.8%	Clarinet. My best friend plays it, and it looks cool.
#5	8.1%	English horn. Look it up, it's awesome!!!
#6	8.0%	Viola. Better than a violin, but there's a lot of bad jokes out there about violists...
#7	6.6%	Cello. Big, bad, and extremely cool.
#8	5.4%	Tuba. Also big, bad, and loud. But without the strings.
#9	5.2%	Trumpet. It's OK.
#10	4.2%	Bassoon. The largest kind with reeds, and looks like a telephone pole.
#11	2.4%	Harp. It's really pretty, but takes a lot of dedication to transport it.
#12	2.3%	Forget it. Do something else. Teach math to incapable college students.
#13	2.3%	French horn. It's my favorite. It's french. (Plus, you play it with your left hand)
#14	1.5%	Flute. It's the most competitive and prettiest sounding, if you're good...
#15	0.0%	Oboe. Beginners sound pretty dismal, but if you practice enough it sounds really pretty
#16	0.0%	Violin. I generally don't prefer this, but if it works it works.