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Definitions of piano in various dictionaries:
noun - a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
noun - (music) low loudness
adj - used chiefly as a direction or description in music
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| Holly Hunter played it:"The _____" |
| "New Romantic" artist Richard Clayderman has recorded over 1,000 melodies on this instrument |
| Somewhere along the line this instrument's name lost its big finish of "forte" |
| Ravel orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", first written for this instrument |
| Catch a recital by Emanuel Ax, who despite his last name doesn't play guitar but this |
| The person playing this instrument is right up on stage in "Dances at a Gathering", to music by Chopin |
| Keith Jarrett,Barry Manilow,Billy Joel |
| In 1709 inventor B. Cristofori gave this instrument a name meaning "harpsichord with soft & loud" |
| Around 1709 Cristofori became a key player in this new instrument's history |
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| a large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed. The strings' vibration is stopped by dampers when the keys are released and can be regulated for length and volume by two or three pedals. |
| a large musical instrument with a row of black and white keys that are pressed to play notes: |
| a large musical instrument with a row of black and white keys that are pressed with the fingers to play notes, or this type of instrument generally: |
| A musical instrument with a manual keyboard actuating hammers that strike wire strings, producing sounds that may be softened or sustained by means of pedals. |
| In a soft or quiet tone. Used chiefly as a direction. |
| A passage to be played softly or quietly. |
| a stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds |
| (music) low loudness |
| used chiefly as a direction or description in music |
| used as a direction in music to be played relatively softly |
| Piano description |
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| The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a shortened form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from gravicembalo col piano e forte and fortepiano. The Italian musical terms piano and forte indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the greater the velocity of a key press, the greater the force of the hammer hitting the strings, and the louder the sound of the note produced and the stronger the attack. The first fortepianos in |