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This study aimed at knowing the performance of music students in playing the piano instrument and their attitudes towards the instrument it self at the Department of Music Sciences at the College of Fine Arts at An-Najah National University. To achieve the goals of the study, the researcher used a musical attitude scale that he designed to measure the level of music students’ attitudes towards playing the piano instrument. This scale was assessed by qualified musicians at the Colleges of Fine Arts at Al-Yarmouk University and Jordan University in Jordan, and at An-Najah National University in Palestine. This scale is divided into three domains and forty items of multiple choice. In answering the questions of the study and testing his hypotheses, the researcher employed the (SPSS) by using the following statistical analysis tools: the mean, percentage, and standard deviation. The results of statistical analyses were as follows: First: There were statistical significant differences at (α = 0,05) between the mean, percentage, and standard deviation. The benefit of the nature of the subject of music domain, comes out with a mean of (3,95), standard deviation (0,34). That means there is a high level of attitude towards the nature of the subject. The second domain of importance and value of the subject comes out with a mean of (3,95), and standard deviation of (0,46). That manes there is a high level of attitude towards that, and the third domain of enjoying the subject, comes out with mean of (3,97), standard deviation of (0,59) that means a high level towards that. In view of the above results, the researcher recommends to give more attention to teaching playing the piano instrument; he also suggests adding more elective courses to support the same field especially the piano which can also improve the general musical sense of students in schools and universities.