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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships
What? A piano can actually produce notes, drums are strictly used to keep rhythm, unless we're talking about a steel pan drum. Anyway the piano and the drum are two entirely different instruments all together.
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I think his point was that they're both part of the percussion family, and since the OP's idiot friend was claiming that percussion instruments are not musical instruments, that would mean pianos are not musical instruments. From wikipedia:
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Pressing a key on the piano's keyboard causes a felt covered hammer to strike steel strings. The hammers rebound, allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their resonant frequency.[1] These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a sounding board that couples the acoustic energy to the air so that it can be heard as sound. When the key is released, a damper stops the string's vibration. Pianos are percussive. According to the Hornbostel-Sachs method of music classification, they are grouped with chordophones.
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