Piano is a great instrument.
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
instrument acquired by Colt.
- A Graf from the late 1830s.
- An 1840 "dog-kennel" instrument manufactured by Lichtenthal, whose appearance has been described as "ghastly."
- An 1845 Collard and Collard cabinet piano, with an elaborate rosewood case.
- A Joseph Schneider, made approximately 1851. This piano is manufactured out of American bird's eye maple, with a mosaic inlay of wood. It is likely this is the instrument exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It has