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A ukulele. You can learn to play it in 20 hours, and then you are a musician



I would throw used acoustic guitar in there as well if you have the hand largeness for it. If you just want to play songs around a campfire it's around the same number of hours. A weird artifact of many musicians getting their start when they were [1] teenagers / early twenties is that the songs can be played by novices at guitar since well... they were novices when they wrote them.

[1] Or still are, Gayle is 19, playing stadium shows, and can't play guitar for shit -- her voice is the showstopper. It's kinda inspiring seeing her just playing chords and being like wow that's so attainable.




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