Pianoforte

Word PIANOFORTE
Character 10
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Pronunciations /piˌænəʊˈfɔːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Pianoforte"

What do we mean by pianoforte?

A piano. noun

A musical instrument of the percussive group, the tones being produced by blows of hammers upon stretched strings, and the hammers being operated from a keyboard. , noun

A lesser used term for the piano (the musical instrument). noun

A keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds noun

A piano.

The full length word for Piano. Literally means "soft loud", which descibes the piano's musical range. Urban Dictionary

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The word "pianoforte" in example sentences

The earliest mention of the name pianoforte (_piano e forte_), applied to a musical instrument, has been recently discovered by Count Valdrighi in documents preserved in the Estense Library, at Modena. ❋ Various (N/A)

The question of a pianoforte is rather a troublesome one, as my room is too small to hold any but a cottage piano, and cottage pianos are not to be hired, for some reason or other, but can only be bought, and that for not less than two hundred pounds, and it really does not seem worth while to go to such a heavy expense in such a matter. ❋ Unknown (1891)

A bust of Wagner stood in the corner, and on the wall behind the pianoforte was a large painting in sepia, dim, with strong lights and shadows. ❋ Olive M. Briggs (N/A)

It is not easy to say which of his many compositions for the pianoforte are the most important. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

It is a pity that you have not a Schanz pianoforte, which is much more favourable to expression; my idea is that you should make over your own still very tolerable piano to Fraulein Peperl, and get a new one for yourself. ❋ Hadden, J Cuthbert (1902)

The pianoforte is the most universal musical instrument of the civilized world. ❋ Gustav Kobb�� (1887)

As an illustration of Schubert's cleverness in treating the pianoforte, which is already sufficiently evident in the dramatic accompaniments of his larger songs, before mentioned, attention is called to the ❋ Unknown (1874)

The keyed instrument, of which our pianoforte is the living representative, had found its keyboard and a practical method of eliciting tones, which, whatever their weakness, were at least better than those of the lute, the chitarrone, the psaltery or harp. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The essential foundation of the pianoforte was the metal strings, necessitating hammers for inciting the vibrations, and affording in the superior solidity incident to metal support a firmness and susceptibility to development. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Few English gentlemen (if any) could accompany their own songs on the pianoforte in my youth, Ida; most of them then had a wise idea that the pianoforte was an instrument 'only fit for women,' and would have as soon thought of trying to learn to play upon it as of studying the spinning-wheel. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Some oxymorons are found in common day language, such as "white chocolate" (these are two different colours, although the term chocolate is actually meant to be the food chocolate, and not the colour chocolate), or "pianoforte" (this means soft-loud). ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, I remember quite distinctly singing it in this form as a rather fetching treble temporarily seconded to some ad hoc choir, perhaps that of Millear House, on speech day at Grimwade House, with the late Miss Kathleen James at the pianoforte. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A pianoforte draped in a pair of tasseled velvet curtains. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

With a history that probably goes back to ancient Rome, the piano bar "saloonus pianoforte" is one of the most venerable yet fragile of New York traditions. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

He has a patent for an improved pianoforte or rather for one on a new construction, and he is now nearly perfecting an instrument which by keys play all the notes from the lowest on the Bass viol up to the treble of the Violin, on perpendicular catgut strings ❋ Unknown (2009)

To some degree such invective countered the unbridled hype characterized by this panegyric by an anonymous English critic in 1841: "Liszt, the Polyphemus of the pianoforte; the Aurora Borealis of musical effulgence; the Niagara of thundering harmonies." ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

Songs, pianoforte and violin pieces, trios and quintets for strings, incidental music, symphony, orchestral, and choral works rushed from his fingers. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

The pianoforte. [aka]. [the piano] ❋ He's The Boxman (2006)

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