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
Schroeder (Peanuts)
Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip "Peanuts", created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. Schroeder is also the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team, though he is always seen walking back to the pitcher's mound with the baseball, never throwing it—admitting in one strip he did not want the other
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