I don't play the piano, but I have always wanted to. It's the best acoustic instrument.
I love listening to the piano but cannot play
I just learned that the piano is shortened from "pianoforte" and it's an Italian term!
That is interesting.    Do you have a favorite pianist?
Kind of, my favorite composer is Daniel Waitzman and he's American.
I have never heard of him.  What did he write
He wrote the Peanuts theme song which is a comic strip.
Oh I love Peanuts!  I did not know he wrote that
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown (also known as Charles Brown, Esq. and nicknamed Chuck by Peppermint Patty) is the lead role of the comic strip "Peanuts", syndicated in daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a "lovable loser," Charlie Brown is one of the great American archetypes and a popular and widely recognized cartoon character. Charlie Brown is characterized as a person who frequently suffers, and as a result is usually nervous and lacks self-confidence. He shows both
could play from memory not just a vast repertoire of piano music, but also a wide range of orchestral and operatic transcriptions. He could "memorize at sight" and once challenged his friend John Roberts to name any piece of music that he could not "instantly play from memory".
The piano, Gould said, "is not an instrument for which I have any great love as such... [but] I have played it all my life, and it is the best vehicle I have to express my ideas