Definitionn. a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
Last update: September 17, 2015
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It does not appear from any evidence that the keyboards - when there were more than one - of the early organs were arranged for transposition, but it is certain that the Flemish harpsichords to 1650 were made with double keyboards to accommodate it (see Hipkins' History of the Pianoforte, 1897). [Please select]
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THE YOUNG VOCALIST: a Collection of Twelve Songs, each with an Accompaniment for the Pianoforte, selected from Mozart, Weber, Mendelssohn, Spohr, etc. [Please select]
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Miss Grant wishes to put an upright pianoforte in the saloon. [Please select]
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This was brought about in a great measure by the mechanical improvement of the pianoforte and the extension of its scale. [Please select]
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They helped him to resist a disagreeable tendency to feel himself an intruder, an outsider, among these pianoforte experts. [Please select]
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Forrester's displeasure as she recognized the heavenly melodies of Schumann's Pianoforte Quintet. [Please select]
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He was, as Rubinstein called him, "the soul of the pianoforte." [Please select]
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