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?
Daniel Waitzman
Daniel Robert Waitzman (born July 15, 1943) is an American flutist and composer.
Early life and education.
Born in Rochester, New York, Waitzman grew up in New York City, where he graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1961. At Columbia College (B.A. 1965), he majored in Music. He received his M.A. in Musicology from Columbia University in 1968. Waitzman studied recorder with Bernard Krainis, Baroque Flute with Claude Monteux and Paul Ehrlich, and modern flute
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