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pianoforte

[ UK /pˌi‍ənəfˈɔːte‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds

How To Use pianoforte In A Sentence

  • They routinely visit each other's houses where they amuse themselves playing the pianoforte, playing cards or dancing.
  • Schroter's concertos, some of my pianoforte sonatas, the sinfonie concertante, two quartets for the flute, and a concerto for harp and flute [Kochel, No. 298, 299]. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Won't you be a dear and practice the pianoforte for a bit while I show Lord William the lovely new begonias that the butler planted in his spare time?
  • Toy musical instruments, including French horns, trumpets, violins, pianofortes, flutes, and drums, numbered 17,622; small horses, horsemen, and soldiers, from drummers to lancers, over 3,000.
  • A key is the part of a pianoforte that you touch to make music.
  • The tune plunked out on the pianoforte was ridiculously simple, and even then, Clara made many obvious mistakes, creating chords that were hurtful to the ear.
  • Lotte stood beside the pianoforte, staring at the carpet.
  • The festival includes classes for choirs, vocal solos, duets, groups, pianoforte, strings, woodwind, guitar ensembles, composition, brass and keyboards.
  • 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. Joseph Haydn
  • 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. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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