learn to play a musical instrument well

I tried the trumpet when I was 9 but that didn’t work because I couldn’t get any sound out of it. I have had my go at the piano and do like it – but I lack any formal training and that makes it hard. I have recently bought a guitar in the hopes of learning to at least get some sound out of it which could be called musical.

Like most kids my mum made me have piano lessons. And although I liked the idea of making music, I always had an issue with learning to read music. I have managed to gleen enough learning to scrape by, but it is still a struggle.

I always found it preferable to play by ear.
I am not interested in a career in music, so I don’t see that it is hugely needful for me to read music.

I have tried playing guitar, but get lost with all those choices of strings and where my fingers should be. So that didn’t work out.[I figure that kind of rules out violins etc too.]

I have tried whistles and recorders, but either struggle with the breathing, or the holes are too close/far apart for me to manage them fluidly.[That means no brass or woodwind either.]

Plainly I do not have the coordination or dexterity for complex manipulations. So that kind of leaves me with instruments that have a visible single note system like harp, piano, xylophone, organ, and the like.

All cost money to buy or rent, and learn… and it isn’t always easy to find tutors for some of the more exotic instruments.
SO this is not something I expect to fulfill too quickly, but I will keep it on the wish list.

This is a picture of my ideal instrument… the harp piano… you play it like a piano and it plays like a harp…. but Sooo rare… Sooo expensive.