The King of Strings

I would start off by saying that the keyboard has been a monumental asset to the music game. For thousands of years people have been plucking and/or hitting strings tensed between two fixings. Who knew so much sound could come from the plucking or hitting of a tense string. Granted most of these strings are made out of some sort of metallic substance, but strings are strings. The harpsichord one the best built preludes to the idea of a piano. With this instrument, I believe strings were plucked or hit in order to produce a sound. With the earlier models the glitch was that the hammer, or device used to hit the string, would touch it too long. This made every sound have the same loudness. It wasn't until the early pianos were created that the player could play each note with the intensity intended. Without the piano, a relative of the keyboard, we would not have such awesome compositions such as the ones produced by Bach, Beethoven, Revel, etc... I personally can't get enough of a good sound and I don't know what life would be like without the keyboard. It is a huge part of some cultures more than others, but it is present nonetheless. But who knows what other creation of sound would have taken its place? Would there be an instrument we've never seen which would be equally as pleasing? Could be, but there isn't. I won't complain.