Updated, 6:49 a.m.

Good morning on this sunny, then soggy, Tuesday.

New York boasts almost every genre of music. This month alone, you can check out classical, electronic, jazz, hip-hop, gospel, folk and musical theater events around the city.

This list got us thinking: Does the city have an official instrument?

Sadly, the answer is no.

Accordions might remind us of piazzas in Italy and saxophones could conjure up memories of New Orleans, but what instrument best represents New York?

We asked a few local music experts to chime in. Their nominations:

The piano, according to David Schroeder, director of jazz studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

“Steinway is totally New York,” he said of Steinway & Sons, “the most important piano in the world now.” The company was created in 1853 in Manhattan and later shifted its manufacturing to Queens.