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oʊ, ˈpyæn noun, plural pi·an·os.
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
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adjective
1.
soft; subdued.
adverb
2.
softly. Abbreviation: p, p.
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World English Dictionary
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| —n , pl -anos | |
| grand piano See also upright piano a musical stringed instrument resembling a harp set in a vertical or horizontal frame, played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike the strings and produce audible vibrations | |
| [C19: short for | |
| piano2 (ˈpjɑːnəʊ) | |
| —adj, —adv | |
| music p (to be performed) softly | |
| [C17: from Italian, from Latin plānus flat; see | |
| Piano (Italian pjˈɑno) | |
| —n | |
| Renzo. born 1937, Italian architect; buildings include the Pompidou Centre, Paris (1977; with Richard Rogers) and the Potsdamer Platz redevelopment, Berlin (1998) | |
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Word Origin & History
piano
1803, from Fr. piano, It. piano, shortened forms of pianoforte (q.v.). As an adv., "softly," in musical directions (superl. pianissimo), attested from 1683. Pianist is recorded from 1839, from Fr. pianiste, from It. pianista.
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Cultural Dictionary
piano definition
A musical direction meaning “to be performed softly”; the opposite of forte. As the name of a musical instrument, it is short for pianoforte.
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Example sentences
Most ebony, however, is harvested to make musical instruments such as piano keys and the fingerboards of stringed instruments.
Isn't that similar to playing any instrument in the same room as a piano.
He used some pretty bizarre methods, including striking razor blades against piano strings.
It didn't matter that you couldn't get faithful piano or violin sounds out of the thing.
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