Piano Guys
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Fight Song
What Makes You Beautiful
The Wedding Video
(Rockelbel's Canon)
The Jungle Book
What instruments are we hearing?
What family of instruments are they from?
How old are these instruments? Before you look below for the answer, make a prediction inside your head - is the piano or the cello older?
Piano
Piano
Invented about 1700. The piano is about 320 years old. It is part of both the percussion and the string families.
Cello
Cello
Invented about 1660. The cello is about 360 years old. It is part of the string family of instruments.