pianistics

[ pee-uh-nis-tiks ]

noun

1. (used with a singular verb) the art or practice of playing the piano.
2. (used with a singular or plural verb) display of virtuosity on the piano.

Example Sentences

The intensely felt “City That Care Forgot” was succeeded by the atypical “Locked Down” for Nonesuch Records in 2012; the album, produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and eschewing pianistics for a tough hard-rock-based sound, also collected a Grammy as best blues album.

From Washington Post

Whereupon the tiny man, exploding chords like cannoncrackers, hurled himself upon the piano, and for the next 72 minutes, while the orchestra bawled like a herd of lovesick hippos, blasted away with a display of percussive pianistics that rattled the hall so hard nobody noticed the sound of a subway train thundering within 40 feet of the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild m�lange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic.

From Time Magazine Archive