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.
Me too! The exact year is not known, but it was around that time. that just surprises me!
I found that the first piano was made by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698. They are complex machines though. It took us a long time to come up with the printing press as well.
That's true. I know about Cristofori, he apparently started out as an apprentice to a violin maker. 
Now violins are much older instruments. I would like to play the violin because of how expressive an instrument it is, but I think the piano is much more versatile.
I agree with you! Though I think I would want to play the cello, I have always been fond of it. 
My favorite composer is Myakovsky because of his cello and piano duets he composed. Also Regina Spektor had a celloist that died by drowning.