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

Invented about 1700. The piano is about 320 years old. It is part of both the percussion and the string families.

Cello

Invented about 1660. The cello is about 360 years old. It is part of the string family of instruments.