Do you play a musical instrument? I used to play piano as a child.
I played piano for maybe a year when I was little. I hated practicing! It wasn't for me. 
Yeah, same here. I wanted to play sports instead. Musical instruments dates back to the beginning of human culture.
I imagine archaeologists have found all kinds of evidence of musical instruments, huh?
That's correct. Early instruments may have been used for rituals such as religious ceremonies.
I bet the first instruments were probably drums Banging on something to make a sound is about as simple as it gets. 
Many scholars think the earliest instrument is a flute which dates back 67,000 years but there could be earlier we haven't found yet.
Oh, that's interesting. That's a long time ago! I wonder how long stringed instruments have been around. At least since the Renaissance...?
String instrument
String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. 
Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum—and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the musician presses a key that plucks the string.
With bowed instruments, the player pulls a rosined horsehair
hated the piano at first. I'd love to say I was a natural but I wasn't. I hated playing it and I hated my music teacher. My father, who was a canny man, told me, 'We have to scrimp and save to pay for these lessons, you might as well give them up.’
“It wasn't long before I gravitated back to the piano, trying to play the songs that I was listening to on the radio. I always wondered what my left hand