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Salsa        I would like to take you on a musical trip to Cuban music, the Salsa.  I chose salsa because I have always wanted to learn salsa and swing dancing. My husband loves to dance, but I have never been taught to, so maybe someday in the future, I will learn.  Salsa was first invented in the early 1900s in eastern Cuba. The salsa is a dance, but its music comes from various rhythms and styles of music put together to make a catchy tune to dance to. The two main styles of music behind the salsa are Cuban son and Afro-Cuban rumba. The salsa music was created by a man of Bantu descent  Here is a link to  Cuban son music here is a link to  Afro-Cuban rumba music Salsa   LINK   this is an extra video I thought I would throw in for the salsa dance that I enjoyed, and I hope you all will, too  salsa dance The two kinds of music used are very similar in terms of instrumental usage, but each style has a slightly differe...

 evolution of the piano        chose the piano because this is the first of three instruments I have played and is by far my favorite.  I will be talking about how the piano started out to be and how much it has evolved into now a days piano.  The piano was invented in the 1700s when it originated out of Italy and was made by a man named  Bartolomeo Cristofori. This man took pieces of other instruments and how they played and critiqued it to make a piano. The instruments that the piano originated from were the dulcimer, clavichord, and harpsichord.  (all shown below in order)  The name of the first piano was the  gravicembalo col piano e forte , or “harpsichord that played loud and soft. The name was finally changed to pianoforte or fortepiano, then to what it's just called now, which is the Piano.  Later on, in 1836,  Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg completed his first forte piano in his kitchen and spent his life workin...