I enjoy playing the piano which is a very old instrument and very expensive. There are lots of famous songs that feature pianos of course.
I enjoy playing the piano too! Surprisingly, the piano is much younger than I thought. It was invented in 1700. I thought it was much much older!
I thought it was much older than that as well? I think about classical composers and feel like it should be at least a couple hundred years older than 1700.
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
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"Another nearly album. It has too much variation within the music for me to be really happy about it and again I ended up in a studio that I really didn't like that was picked by the record company at the time and so I couldn't change. There's a mixture of great playing and some very poor playing as well. Most disappointing is the piano sound as the piano in the studio was cheap and nasty. There are a couple of classic tracks on the album though such as