Piano is better than the guitar

Firstly, I'd like to point out the use of the electric guitar in the video that my opponent provided. Note the fact that the person is playing an electric guitar? Also note the fact that the person is playing only one note at a time? I said that I'd be surprised if someone found a video with the same "fullness" that a piano can do. How does one note make up for the skill that is shown in the video below? It doesn't really matter though; the piano can still outplay the electric guitar by a long shot. Watch this. Watch the pianist's hands compared to the guitarist's hands and you'll see who has more skill. I judge from what I saw that the pianist was playing not only Flight of the Bumble Bee extremely fast but she was also playing Flight of the Bumblebee with two notes for each semitone. Playing Flight of the Bumblebee with just semitones is difficult but the pianist in the video added a whole new level of difficulty that made it sound amazing. Those who play piano will only truly understand how hard it is to play Flight of the Bumblebee like that. I also saw the pianist playing with one hand over the other. I don't think my opponent realizes how difficult this is? Try randomly strumming over your right hand in a song with a guitar and you'll realize how difficult it is. I'd also like to make a comment on my opponent's first paragraph. Sophistication is not for all I know. But that also doesn't mean that it's not for anybody. Sophistication is for those who have graduated past the fact that high school is not life, for those who finally understand art etc. But for the rest until they reach the point where they can appreciate it too, it' s "Caviar to the general"-Hamlet, for them. Secondly I'd like to point out the fact in my opponent's second paragraph that states "I think piano sounds better". The truth is that I KNOW THAT PIANO SOUNDS BETTER, not just think. Voters do you really think that a singer who uses auto tune to sound good is as good as a singer who uses their own voice with no enhancements? The same is with the electric guitar. It sounds better than the acoustic because it's all electronic enhancements. Take away all the electronic enhancements of an electric guitar and it'll sound even worse than an acoustic. A piano is an acoustic instrument. It needs no enhancements to sound good unlike the guitar. But if my opponent really insists on putting the electric guitar in the equation then I insist on putting the keyboard piano into the equation. Using the right modes, the keyboard piano could easily sound exactly like a guitar. You'll see in the video down below. Also people are not attracted to an Adele concert to hear her play the guitar. No, people are there to hear her sing. Just like in any other concert, people are there to have a good time and hear their favourite singer sing. Not the guitar playing in the background. People didn't watch the Coldplay halftime show at the super bowl just so they could watch all the violinists in the background dance and play at the same time. (Although that was pretty cool) They watched it because they wanted to hear Coldplay sing. Try not to shove the guitar into the spotlight that it doesn't deserve. And yet there are world-class piano performers that people go to see to watch them play piano. It may seem boring to you but remember sophistication that I talked about. As to your third paragraph, so what if the piano is an easy beginner instrument? That just adds to why the piano is better than the guitar. It is user friendly to children unlike the guitar which makes your fingers hurt from pressing down the strings. When you say that the guitar is like trying to do two or three things at once, it's not like that's a big accomplishment. It's practically because you are doing two things at once, strumming and pressing your fingers down on the keys and reading music (three if you actually count strumming as a multitasking). As you get on to higher grades in piano, it gets harder. From having to play two different melodies with both your hands, reading music and using the pedal. That is like sometimes doing four different things. Like I said before PIANO IS LIKE WRITING IN CURSIVE WITH BOTH HANDS AT THE SAME TIME. But with the knowledge that I gained from piano I was able to pick up the guitar search online a bit and was able to play Riptide in a couple of days including the hammering interlude. I doubt that a guitarist would be able to play Don't Stop Believing or another piano song like that in a couple of days. Not only is the piano easy as a beginner instrument but it also teaches children a lot more about music than a guitar would. Piano is an instrument that's easy for people to play at the beginning but it gets a lot harder as you move on into further grades. Guitar is just frustrating for people at the beginning. It hurts your fingers and the neck is difficult to reach around. Complications in playing the instrument is not really something you want to advertise when trying to get people to see that the guitar is better. As to my opponents fourth paragraph I'd like to point out something that clearly states that my opponent thinks that the piano is better even though he/she is arguing for guitar. ", To reply I would ask him to surprise me with someone playing the hardest rock song on a piano, and only the piano." Notice that he/she said ONLY THE PIANO, which states that he/she knows that the keyboard piano could easily replicate the guitar. This request is not exactly fair considering the fact that my opponent had an electric guitar in his youtube video example. Here is a video of a keyboard piano doing the exact same as a guitar. The keyboard piano can even do bends like a guitar. This comes to show that I as a pianist could play the guitar just as good as if not better than an expert guitarist. Also guitarists seem to have so much pride in playing their guitar solos. Voters do not be tricked into thinking that the guitarist is a great improviser. In truth the guitar is only playing one note at a time. That's extremely easy to do and takes absolutely no skill to create one. A piano solo has to have more than one note being played to sound good which means that pianists have literally make up a song on the spot including both melodies and make it sound good. How is that compared to a guitars measly one note at a time solo? The only reason a guitar solo sounds good is because of all the electronics it takes to sound good. Also I will correct my opponent's misconception of what an orchestra is. There are four families in an orchestra, the woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion. There can be up to twenty different instruments in an orchestra and it can consist of 70-100 musicians. Many big orchestras consist of only professionals so it is not "90 people playing simple tunes on their flutes" (there's more than just flutes in an orchestra). Those "90 people" don"t just sit down and perform what's in front of them with ease. Those "90 people" don't actually get the scores (music sheets) of all the instruments, they only get their own and when they practice with the whole orchestra it is difficult to know when to play your part. This is a video of the theme songs of Star Wars being played by a symphony. 0:10-Imperial March 3:17-Leia's Theme Song 8:10-Cantina Song 11:23-Star Wars Main Title Now watch this. This proves that the piano can play all the parts of an orchestra that does not have "90 people playing simples tunes are their flutes". Now I'd be extremely surprised if someone found a video of a guitar that could play at the same fullness as the piano in the video. I highly doubt there's a guitar out there that can play with the same dynamics and skill that is shown in the video. Finally I will sum up what my opponent practically said in his/her last two paragraphs. "The guitar is a cheap product that can be bought anywhere and the piano is expensive and heavy." To that I say "so what". My opponent has basically claimed that guitars are dirt cheap compared to the piano, which shows that piano"s obviously are worth a whole lot more than guitars. The quality of a piano is a whole lot better than a guitar too. For a guitar you'll have to buy back up strings in case one snaps, you also have to always keep tuning your guitar when it falls out of tune which is annoying and you have to buy all the pedals, speakers and enhancements for your guitar to actually make it sound good. A piano is much more simpler. And there's no need to collect piano's when you're a pianist. The good thing about a piano is that it sounds great for everything. You don't need to buy a bunch of different piano's to sound good in different songs and genres so in the long run a piano is less expensive while maintaining excellent quality.