pianoforte
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- noun
- /ˌpiːənoʊˈfɔːrteɪ/
- Archaic
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pianoforte
- - I hear you have a fine pianoforte.
- play the pianoforte
- keys of the pianoforte
Examples
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Though you have no instrument of your own, you're very welcome to come to Rosings and play on the pianoforte in the housekeeper's room.
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Might I play your pianoforte?
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-It will sound very well with the pianoforte.
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Do you play the pianoforte, Miss Bennet?
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Miss Woodhouse, would you do us the honour of trying our pianoforte?
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What a beautiful pianoforte.
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Scheduled for the year 2000, the proposed event will mark the anniversary of Bartolommeo Cristofori's construction of the first pianoforte in 1700.
Academic text (1997) -
Mary sweetly begged to be excused so that she might play the pianoforte, Sir Radford's instrument being so decidedly superior to the one she played at home.
Fiction book (1998) -
The first evening at Selwyn Park, while Selina played the pianoforte and the assembled company listened politely, Lady Dustan and Sir Radford sat at the back of the room, where they might converse in lowered voices about the members of Lady Dustan's party.
Fiction book (1998) -
My daughter has been playing the pianoforte since the age of five.
Synonyms
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A large instrument with black and white keys you press to make music
An early piano from the 18th and early 19th centuries with a lighter, more delicate sound
A musical machine with keys you press to make notes, like a piano or organ
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pianoforte comes from the Italian words piano and forte, which mean 'soft' and 'loud'. So a pianoforte is a keyboard that can play both quietly and loudly, and it is the early form of the modern piano.