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pianoforte
[ pee-an-uh-fawrt, -fohrt; pee-an-uh-fawr-tee, -tey, -fohr- ]
noun
- a piano.
pianoforte
/ pɪˈænəʊˈfɔːtɪ /
pianoforte
- The full name of the piano , the common musical instrument with a board of black and white keys, eighty-eight in all. The keys operate hammers that strike wires. Pianoforte is Italian for “soft-loud”; it received this name because its level of loudness depends on how hard the player strikes the keys.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pianoforte1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pianoforte1
C18: from Italian, originally ( gravecembalo col ) piano e forte (harpsichord with) soft and loud; see piano ², forte ²
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Example Sentences
The organ touch could now be made as light as that of a pianoforte, much lighter than ever before.
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Music, especially singing and the pianoforte, is almost in a more degraded position than painting.
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They decided to engage as pianoforte teacher a young lady called Marie Markovna Palchikov.
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Thanks to her, he learnt to know the whole of Don Giovanni, and was never tired of reading the pianoforte score.
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The future composer had no alternative but to study these works in pianoforte arrangements.
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