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Meanings of piano in English
Musical instrument.
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Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
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Examples for "pianoforte"
Examples for "pianoforte"
1
Like Handel, the boy studied the pianoforte by stealth in the attic.
2
You will herewith receive the pianoforte arrangement of the Symphony in A.
3
The past century has given us the golden age of the pianoforte.
4
He composed for the sonorous pianoforte of the future,-thepianoforte building today.
5
Another purpose which I had was to embarrass the local pianoforte masters.
1
He stole midnight interviews with a dumb spinet in a secret attic.
2
When I sit at the spinet and look at Lady Clarissa traditions.
3
It's tone was so much richer and deeper than the old spinet.
4
Writer likes the way the apartment feels just after the spinet is removed.
5
There was, however, an old spinet in one of the parlours.
1
Why don't you get your silk embroidery or practise upon the spinnet?
2
Oh yes, madam, and Italian, and dance and play on the spinnet.
3
Dinner not being ready, the young ladies proposed a tune upon the spinnet.
4
It came from the old, old spinnet that was covered with the faded roses.
5
You could hear some one playing on a spinnet.
1
Bach concerto made in about 1953 with a Goff harpsichord and a Gough fortepiano.
2
US based fortepiano specialist talks about the merits and reasons for historically informed performance practices.
3
Spoken lines are given as cinema intertitles while a fortepiano plays parts of Mozart piano sonatas.
4
Edmund Battersby on Naxos used a copy of an 1825 fortepiano and modern Steinway concert grand.
5
It's not just that he's using a fortepiano, a modern copy of an instrument by Conrad Graf.
1
She must either have a forte-piano at home, or renounce learning it.
2
She promised to give you now and then a lesson on the forte-piano; is she as good as her word?
1
There was a grand piano in the studio at the far end.
2
So she strolled into the drawing-room and leaned over the grand piano.
3
Violet returns to the drawing-room and walks wistfully about the grand piano.
4
They come from here, says Jarrett pointing to the grand piano onstage.
5
Albert complained, calmly perching himself on the top of the grand piano.
1
The Model-D -named after Steinway's hoary concert grand piano -is among the first completely digital, ultra-high-end audio systems.
2
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Reed-thin and tiny, Yuja Wang looks too small to handle a shiny black Steinway concert grand piano.
3
Within walking distance of the course is a three-bedroom, 4,000sqft 1915 Italian Renaissance-style house with 55 windows and a concert grand piano.
1
It had its sofas, cushions, mirrors, stools, tables, and an upright piano.
2
There was an upright piano and a view of the city.
3
There were drums in the house, an upright piano and a bass guitar.
4
Can it be that the upright piano was an American invention?
5
Thea's room was large enough to admit a rented upright piano without crowding.
(1) Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825 [J.S. Bach] (2) L’lsle joyeuse [Debussy]
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Usage of piano in English
1
The piano will be a good way for me to remember him.
2
The chords of the piano blend with the words of the song:
3
The tickets were a sovereign; the rest is for tuning the piano.
4
She boxed him in the corner between the piano and the wall.
5
Somebody was singing in the drawing-room to the music of the piano.
6
Bernadette learned music from an early age; piano, guitar, drums and violin.
7
The other she left in the shadowy corner of the piano-forhim.
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The most vital thing in piano playing is to learn to think.
9
The piano was draped in Liberty silk and so was the chimney-piece.
10
In the drawing-room someone was playing softly and ramblingly on the piano.
11
And then he mingled rather hastily in the group near the piano.
12
The girl touched the piano keys; they were ice under her fingers.
13
She sat down to the piano; the door closed softly behind them.
14
He plays the piano; that is the phrase which describes his performance.
15
I never go 'I wish I had put more piano on that'.
16
Earlier training in piano playing had given her a certain manual dexterity.
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