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I made a digital MIDI drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
I don't see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn't have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it's dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It's also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but "just" an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.