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.

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For sounds, my favorites are baroque music and piano jazz.

She had learnt the piano as a child and had hoped to be a dancer.

But by now, both mbira and thumb piano are so widely disseminated that they're pretty much inescapable, however problematic.

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For sounds, my favorites are baroque music and piano jazz.

She had learnt the piano as a child and had hoped to be a dancer.

But by now, both mbira and thumb piano are so widely disseminated that they're pretty much inescapable, however problematic.

That's right, the elderly gain a better sense of balance when they exercise to piano music.

There was always a musician in the theater to heighten the theatrical experience by way of plunking out a tune on piano.

One purple iris bloom had fallen onto the cotton piano cover and stained it as deeply as purple ink.

The guitar fret board and piano keys aren't anywhere near full-size, but they're serviceable.

YouTube, the site known for videos of cats playing piano and other home movies, is sending some of its users to film school.

At the end, his audience rose to applaud as for a piano virtuoso.

Most ebony, however, is harvested to make musical instruments such as piano keys and the fingerboards of stringed instruments.

Kids that lag behind should have compulsory piano lessons.

Beneath vaulted ceilings the horns blow, the women sing, the piano keys move the.

Somewhere, right now, a little kid is fighting with his parents about how much he needs to practice the piano.

Another central area has a grand piano and live music being played.

He played the piano well-his mother was an accomplished pianist-and he was also a keen mountain climber.

My mother made me take piano lessons starting at the age of five.

Other sources of sound, such as guitar, violin or piano strings are good examples of how vibrations can generate sound.

The photographer once likened taking pictures in color to playing an out-of-tune piano.

Austria, sits down at his father's piano and composes a minuet beyond the creative capabilities of many accomplished adults.

The exhibition occupies the piano nobile of the palace.

Isn't that similar to playing any instrument in the same room as a piano.

The first silent films had been accompanied by a pit orchestra or, for the more frugally minded impresario, a lone piano.

His sonic palette includes sounds culled from sources as simple as sand and as drastic as a burning piano.

The piano string of the note you are playing starts to resonate without touching the piano.

Yet he once likened working in color to playing an out-of-tune piano.

Lots of them account for human strengths such as resistance to disease, an affinity for playing the piano or keen eyesight.

Programmable textile machinery provided inspirationfor the player piano and the early computer.

I've also become a regular attendee of a great series of international piano recitalists.

Steel rollers and piano hinges make the design durable and easy to use, but there's no price posted yet.

As you can play a lot of different songs on a piano you can have a lot of different lives from a zygote.

Soft piano music turned the area even more distinctly into a meditation zone.

He used some pretty bizarre methods, including striking razor blades against piano strings.

The planes are braced in all directions with piano wire.

He plays jazz piano nightly, and the food is fantastic.

The strings take a lead throughout but are book-ended by piano and woodwind to create some movement moments.

Nor do they explain peoples' ability to play the piano or harp or wind instruments with both hands, or ambidextrousness.

There's also a piano for you to play with an actual score.

And if you go to the site there's a pretty piece of piano music.

My one disappointment here is that the keyboard is a piano.

Each two– to-six-minute brain music track is performed on a single instrument, usually a piano.

Kaminski has done piano in a salsa band and accordion in a polka band.

He began playing the piano early, mastering difficult pieces by age.

It didn't matter that you couldn't get faithful piano or violin sounds out of the thing.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

soft; subdued.

adverb

softly. Abbreviation: p, p.

Origin:
1675–85; < Italian: soft, low (of sounds), plain, flat < Latin plānus plain¹

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World English Dictionary

piano¹ (pɪˈænəʊ)

—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 pianoforte]

piano² (ˈpjɑːnəʊ)

—*adj, —adv*
	music p (to be performed) softly

[C17: from Italian, from Latin plānus flat; see plain¹]

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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