fortepiano

[fawr-tey-pee-ah-noh; It. fawr-te-pyah-naw]

for·te-pia·no

[fawr-tey-pee-ah-noh; It. fawr-te-pyah-naw]
adjective, adverb Music.
loud and immediately soft.

Origin:
1760–70

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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for·te·piano

[fawr-tuh-pyah-noh]
noun
a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.

Origin:
1760–70; early variant of pianoforte
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fortepiano (ˌfɔːtɪpɪˈænəʊ)
 
n
an early type of piano popular in the late 18th century
 
[from Italian, loud-soft]

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