piano teacher
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1.3
- noun
- /piˈæno ˈtiːtʃər/
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profesor de piano
- I have found a wonderful piano teacher who helps beginners learn the basics.
And Mom was a a church organist and a choir director and piano teacher.
- And Mom was a a church organist and a choir director and piano teacher.
Examples
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Reggie's piano teacher thinks he's good enough for a scholarship.
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My aunt Robbie was a piano teacher, so I started young.
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My mother is a piano teacher.
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As a child, she had studied with the town piano teacher.
Academic text (2017) -
My name is David Gold, and I am Samantha's piano teacher.
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I see you're the piano teacher here in town.
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Many piano teachers have group classes, computer keyboard opportunities, theory work, and recitals to offer these young students.
Academic text (2000) -
A retired piano teacher donated some unused keyboard books to balance the collection.
Academic text (1999) -
As a piano teacher, I improvise with my students, and I encourage them to improvise at home.
Academic text (1991) -
Mama was a piano teacher, and she taught her students Brahms and Chopin, but her real love was Nashville.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who teaches students how to play the piano' is directly and compositionally derived from 'piano' (the instrument) + 'teacher' (a person who teaches). This instrument+teacher compound is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Piano teacher comes from the simple picture of a teacher sitting at a piano showing a student how to press the keys and read music. That's why it means 'a person who teaches students how to play the piano'.