The piano is my favorite acoustic stringed musical instrument! Do you play it?
I don't, but I love listening to classical music because of how influenced by the piano it is.
Oh yes, the classical music norm of pianos was codified between 1550 and 1900!
Such a great time period in music, do you know when the piano was invented?
The term piano cam from painoforte in the early 1700s!
I had no idea, do you know who invented the piano?
Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. 
The word piano is a shortened form of "pianoforte", the Italian term for the early 1700s versions
referred to Philip Belt, an expert on early pianos, about the possibility of restoring it:
I wrote Belt and sent some pictures, and Belt wrote back that yes, he could do that, but [my piano] wasn't at all a piano from Mozart's time. And as a matter of fact, he had just built such a piano, after Louis Dulcken, c. 1785, and he wanted to take it around to show at colleges and music schools. So I said fine, bring it,