Forte Piano

Among the list of Professor Chua's "don'ts" during the rearing of her own children was allowing them to attend sleepovers; to get grades beneath an "A"; and to play any instrument other than the violin or piano no exclusion for the viola or forte-piano. ❋ Mark Steinberg (2011)

The next name given to it was _forte-piano_, which signified soft, with power; and this name became _piano-forte_, which it still retains. ❋ Various (N/A)

Philadelphia, who "has invented one of the prettiest improvements in the forte-piano I have ever seen." ❋ Various (N/A)

You should say _forte-piano, _ not _piano-forte_: and the ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He has here at home a harpsichord, forte-piano, harmonica, guitar, violin, and German flutes, and at Williamsburg, he has a good pipe organ. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Thus he wrote to Artaria in 1788: "I was obliged to buy a new forte-piano, that I might compose your clavier sonatas particularly well." ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

His instrument was called _forte-piano_ or _pianoforte_, because it would strike loud or soft. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)

She promised to give you now and then a lesson on the forte-piano; is she as good as her word? ❋ Davis, Matthew L (1836)

She must either have a forte-piano at home, or renounce learning it. ❋ Davis, Matthew L (1836)

I lived on the old homestead, man and boy, and was married and had a family of children, for forty years and rising, when my wife would send my daughters to a fashionable school in Wetherville, to learn French and darning-work and the forte-piano. ❋ Unknown (1833)

I thought it as good a way of killing time as any, and better than strumming on the forte-piano, which was kept a-going from morning till night, till a child fell through the cover one day, and smashed all the wire-works. ❋ Unknown (1833)

They accompanied their voices with the forte-piano, and sung a thousand buffo songs, with all that gay voluptuousness for which their country is renowned. ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)

"His strings," says Mr. Jefferson, "are perpendicular, and he contrives within that height" (not given in the published extract) "to give his strings the same length as in the grand forte-piano, and fixes his three unisons to the same screw, which screw is in the direction of the strings, and therefore never yields. ❋ Various (N/A)