I grew up playing the B-flat cornet – trumpet – and loved it. Three keys. Eight combinations, no more. And the combinations repeated with octaves. Really easy to learn. SUPER easy to learn.
I messed around with the recorder. Nice and soft. You can play it indoors in an apartment complex. (Not like the trumpet!) But the fingering killed me. Ten holes; 1024 combinations! (Yeah, I know, most of them are never used.) But, still, dozens of combinations. And they don’t progress logically. The combinations “jump around” instead of being linear.
(Linear, like, “if the bottom four holes are closed, that’s a D. If the bottom five holes are closed, that’s an E. If the bottom six holes are closed, that’s an F.”)
Is there a somewhat soft-spoken musical instrument, likely a woodwind, with really easy fingering to learn?
Thank’ee kindly, all, for any opinions and advice.