Which was invented first, the piano or the pipe organ?

Question

The piano was invented first.

The pipe organ was invented first.

They were invented around the same time.

Nobody knows which was invented first.

Answer 1

The pipe organ was invented first. While the earliest known pipe organs date back to ancient Greece (around 3rd century BC), the piano was developed much later, with its invention generally credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori in the early 1700s.