1. 小号通常演奏旋律，吹错了大家都知道。不像大管，大管的音符只有加拿大鹅能听见，而小号则需要吹出大家所期待的每一个音符。
2. 小号声音嘹亮。你记得什么时候指挥要求三角铁敲得更响一些吗？
3. 小号直接面向听众。如果你在乐队的后排敲手鼓，90%的声音都到天花板里去了，只有你身边的人能听见。
4. 小号演奏者需要用气息来维持冗长、缓慢、痛苦的乐句，而管风琴演奏者可能只需要把一本书放在键盘上，然后出去吃午饭，而没有人会听出来有什么差别。
5. 吹小号需要要强壮的嘴唇肌肉，才能吹出所要求的响亮而丑陋的高音。而在定音鼓上用木棍敲，需要多少力度呢？
6. 小号的指法非常复杂。单簧管要演奏相应的音阶，他们用九个指头，指法就简化多了。而小号则仅限于三个指头，同样的指法会吹出不同的音。
7. 小号演奏者总要调整自己的音准来适合音乐环境。而钢琴演奏者则更注重乐器上的动作。确实，那是只有三条腿的桌子啊！
8. 小号演奏者一般总是比其他乐器演奏者更容易疲劳。如果小提琴手累了，他们弄断一根弦，就可以休息几分钟了。
9. 小号手如果要用弱音器演奏，那就需要比其他乐器更多的准备时间。你下次观察一下，中提琴手如果要加弱音器，他们只要往下伸手把它拉到弦上去即可。
10. 小号组内的协调也很费劲。音乐其他部分没有比小号演奏者与其他乐手协调起来更富有挑战性了。
11. 演奏小号的时候，乐谱的一半被喇叭口遮挡住了。你可从来没有听说过鼓手的视线被挡住而不能读乐谱吧？
12. 与歌手比，小号手更惨了！小号总要求音准，而对于歌手来说，貌似音准不那么重要了。
13. 如果小号手嘴唇开裂，我们还得继续演奏。如果歌手流鼻涕了，那马上就有替补出来了。
14. 再说歌手，如果他们忘记了歌词，他们可以用“嘟、嘟、嘟”来凑合。
15. 音乐会或者排练以后，小号演奏者的环境十分危险。他们很容易走在身边的冷凝水上滑倒，而这点大多数人都不会注意到。
15 Reasons Why the Trumpet is The Most Difficult Instrument to play
WRITTEN BY BRUCE CHIDESTER ON OCTOBER 25, 2012
Some may question the validity of this statement but those that do most often are wrong.
I will list my reasons and give a light hearted account of why this is the case.
1. Trumpets most often play the melody so everyone knows if we play the wrong notes. Unlike the Bassoon, which plays notes that only Canada geese can hear, the trumpet is expected to play every note the way it was intended.
2. Trumpets are loud. When was the last time a conductor requested that a triangle player play louder?
3. Trumpets are pointed directly towards the listener. If you are in the back row of an orchestra and have a tambourine solo, 90% of what you play ends up in the ceiling or on the person next to you.
4. Trumpet players rely on their air to sustain a long slow, painful phrase, while an organist could place a book on the keys and go out for lunch and no one would know the difference.
5. To play a trumpet, the person must have strong lip muscles in order to execute the high, loud and ugly passages required of them. How much strength does it take to drop a stick on a tympani head?
6. The fingering of a trumpet is very complex. For a clarinet player to play a corresponding scale, the clarinet fingerings are simplified because of their use of nine fingers. The trumpet play is limited to only three and is expected to be able to play the same notes.
7. Trumpet players are constantly adjusting their intonation to fit the musical surroundings. At the same time the piano player is more concerned about what you place on their instrument. Get real! It’s a table with only three legs!
8. Trumpet players get more tired than most other instrumentalist. If a violinist becomes tired, they break a string and are able to rest for several minutes.
9. When trumpet players are expected to perform with mutes, it demands much more preparation than the other instruments. Watch next time when a viola adds a mute. They merely reach down to slide it onto the strings.
10. Trumpets have a much more difficult time working within their section. Nowhere in music is this more challenging for every trumpet player has to put up with other trumpet players and we all know what that requires.
11. When performing on a trumpet, half of your view of the music is blocked by the trumpet’s bell. Have you ever heard a snare drummer complain for not being able to see his/her music?
12. And speaking of singers! Trumpet players again are expected to play in tune. Intonation is not that important to most would be singers.
13. And speaking of other singers. If we trumpet players have a split lip, we play anyway. If a singer has a runny nose, out comes the understudy.
14. And speaking of additional singers, if they forget their lyrics, they think “Doobe Doobe Doo” fits every occasion.
15. The environment in which trumpet players perform is very dangerous for by the end of a concert or rehearsal, the chance of slipping on all the condensation around them is greater than most people realize.
These are only fifteen reasons the trumpet is without question (or not) the most difficult instrument to play. For these reasons I beg everyone to cut the next trumpet player some slack for you may be called to play trumpet and you would find it extremely difficult as we have found it to play.
信息来源：
http://www.thetrumpetblog.com/15-reasons-why-the-trumpet-is-the-most-difficult-instrument-to-play/
