i play music in my spare time.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument\u2014it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for ritual, such as a trumpet to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony. Cultures eventually developed composition and performance of melodies for entertainment. Musical instruments evolved in step with changing applications. The date and origin of the first device considered a musical instrument is disputed. The oldest object that some scholars refer to as a musical instrument, a simple flute, dates back as far as 67,000 years. Some consensus dates early flutes to about 37,000 years ago. However, most historians believe that determining a specific time of musical instrument invention is impossible due to the subjectivity of the definition and the relative instability of materials used to make them. Many early musical instruments were made from animal skins, bone, wood, and other non-durable materials. Musical instruments developed independently in many populated regions of the world.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do you play a musical instrument? I used to play piano as a child."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I played piano for maybe a year when I was little. I hated practicing! It wasn't for me. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, same here. I wanted to play sports instead. Musical instruments dates back to the beginning of human culture."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I imagine archaeologists have found all kinds of evidence of musical instruments, huh?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's correct. Early instruments may have been used for rituals such as religious ceremonies."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bet the first instruments were probably drums Banging on something to make a sound is about as simple as it gets. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Many scholars think the earliest instrument is a flute which dates back 67,000 years but there could be earlier we haven't found yet."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, that's interesting. That's a long time ago! I wonder how long stringed instruments have been around. At least since the Renaissance...?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "String instruments produce sound by vibrating strings. They have been played for about 500 years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh I might have thought they were around longer than that. I imagine the early flutes were probably made out of reeds. Wonder who first figured out they could make music! "}]