Please help me! I'm 15 and I've been learning piano since September 2006, at that time I wanted to learn cello

... but my dad insisted on piano, so I took piano. Everyday I tell myself how stupid it was, I really should have taken cello. So I'm constantly trying to reassure myself about my choice by listening to my favorite songs containing piano, BUT piano will never give me that shiver, that feeling that I get when I listen to Bach 1st Suite.
What should I do? Is it too late? I mean I want to continue piano because I don't think I could live knowing that all possibilities for me to play in a Jazz band are over, and I still do like piano. But do you think that I could start next year (I'll be 16) and save up for a cello by myself and ask my parents to pay for cello AND piano class?
Cuz I'm a very determined person, I know that I want to make the most of my life which is why I'm open to many passions, like I draw and love photography and piano and music in general (all kinds), I also know I was made for art and that I'd like to have an artistic carreer, would starting cello be a stupid idea?

If you have a passion for cello, you should play cello. But that doesn't mean you should give up piano... AND, just because you aren't in a position to take up cello now, doesn't mean that you won't be able to in the future - even if it is in 10 years time when you can pay for lessons yourself!

Not stupid at all. In fact, what I'm going to say should give you heart.

Cello is an instrument that you can learn to play well at any age, so you haven't lost opportunity--only time. Furthermore, if you want to be a professional cellist, you'll find your piano experience to be invaluable--music majors are required to learn piano, and your practice will make you a dead lock to pass the dreaded "piano proficiency exam" that's required of all music majors. Then, as a professional, you'll find your piano skills are useful for analyzing music scores and for accompanying your students in private lessons.

Now, if you start cello in a year (or sooner), and you intend to make it your main instrument, then be prepared to practice hard and long to make up for lost time. However--do not do so at the outset (I knew a starting-out string bassist who practiced himself into tendinitis--you don't want that). Begin in the "Suzuki" practice method, giving yourself a half-dozen very short practices daily. You make faster progress that way, and you avoid repetitive motion injuries. After a couple of weeks, you start extending the length of the practices very incrementally--maybe a minute at a time--until you have gotten up to maybe 20 minutes at a time, then extend by 2 minutes per week and reduce the number of practices--eventually you build the stamina (and learn enough about the instrument) to do an hour or two at a stretch.

Now, this old professor can advise you that there are generally shortages of low string players as compared to other sections of the orchestra, so a virtuoso cellist has less problem finding work than an equivalent violinist or clarinetist.

Keep in mind that piano and cello practice time will each reinforce the other. The time you spend practicing piano will make you better at cello, and vice versa. But also know just how much practice time is required! You'll start with a little bit, adding a few minutes at a time, but within a few months, you'll need an hour or two per day per instrument at a minimum if you have professional aspirations.

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i'm 17 and i want to learn the cello next year so if for your age is too late, then i shouldn't be learning it. But i intend to practice very hard so that should be ok.

I am 66 and I started out playing piano as we always had a piano in our house and my mother and sister played piano.Over the years I developed an interest in other instruments and now play piano,trumpet,trombone and flugelhorn. I primarily now play trumpet and trombone and some keyboard. My point is you should relax and not put so much pressure on yourself at such a young age you have many years of music making ahead and you never know what music instruments you may play in say 20 years from now!!