Piano: The Greatest Instrument or the Golden Ratio of Music? Virtually everyone, to some extent, has an interest and curiosity about music and its arrangements. Most music lovers – those who can or cannot play or sing, those who love music as an art, those who love music as a profession – consciously or unconsciously admit that it is a universal language, which transcends all races, as different as a solitaire's tune to the tune of a solitary mourner seeking expression; what music can do goes beyond what language can accomplish! Music, generally understood, is the identification of patterns that govern a composer's technique through the embodiment of its elements; rhythm, harmony, melody, structure, form and texture. There is no single universal and cross-cultural concept that defines music. The definition of music, along with other fundamental questions such as what the history of music reveals, what relationship exists between music and the mind, what musical history reveals to us about music and the connection with emotions, have not received universal uniformity and, without a doubt, I have no answer to the unsolvable. If for a cheerful and tiring course man were to appoint an ambassador to represent the over 20,000 instruments he has found use for, to govern the spirits of music, what criteria would suffice? What all-pervading influence would be cultivated assiduously to influence and inform the mind? Which instrument satisfies the brilliant incarnation common to all music, the linked pedantry that unites the true spirit and expression of music with their emblem? I personally believe that the piano is a great, if not the best, ambassador of music, and for many reasons, some of which I will mention. One, of inestimable value, is... middle of the paper... however I wish to reserve the title of 'greatest instrument' for the title of 'music's golden ratio' to allow my readers to express their opinion as to which instrument deserves this honor and one's own reasons. Perhaps once we receive enough correspondence we might gain some insight into which instrument reigns, worthy of such recognition. Most famous composers: Autur Schnabel, Wilhelm Kempff, Alfred Brendel, Glenn Gould, Alfred Cortot, Emil Gilels, Arthur Rubinstein, Sviatoslav, Vladimir Horowitz, Sergei Rachmaninov (Source: Limelight Magazine)"I have my Grammys on the piano and them I watch while I play", Taylor Swift"One of the greatest thrills for me is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and out of nothing creating a song", Lady Gaga"If I'm going to hell, I'll go there playing a piano," Jerry Lee Lewis