If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.