I just love music infact I have played the piano since I was five.  Do you play any musical instruments?
I do play instruments. I play the piano and used to play a variety of brass isntruments.
Fascinating.  I have never tried brass.  I love the sound of the piano. It was invented in Italy b Barolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700.  I cant believe it is that old!
Yes, it is very very old. I believe the Violin is also of Italian origin. Music is a very fascinating area.
Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo and the kit violin, but these are virtually unused. The violin typically has four strings, usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its
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